ABT Global LLC

ABT Global LLC, a subsidiary of global research and consulting firm ABT Associates Inc., operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) delivering research, evaluation, analytics, and technical assistance services to civilian federal agencies across health, education, workforce development, environment, and justice domains. The parent firm competes full-and-open, without SBA set-asides, across a portfolio of 2,314 prime and sub awards totaling $22.27 billion in combined potential value.

ABT's customer concentration centers on health and social-policy agencies. The top five customers by potential value account for 45% of the combined dollar value: the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Acquisition Services alone anchors $5 billion across 24 awards, followed by CMS ($1.47 billion, 79 awards), US Agency for International Development ($1.3 billion, 111 awards), CDC Pittsburgh ($1.2 billion, 75 awards), and HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration ($1.1 billion, 97 awards). By award count, EPA (148 awards, $1.5 million combined potential value) ranks first, but the dollar concentration diverges sharply—EPA's awards are substantially smaller in magnitude than CDC's, reflecting ABT's role as a high-value research and evaluation prime for public health and social policy work. Across 177 distinct federal customer agencies, ABT demonstrates sustained penetration in civilian health, labor, education, and international development portfolios.

ABT's capability portfolio spans research design and evaluation (including What Works Clearinghouse education evidence synthesis), public health program support (birth defects studies, pain management research, lifestyle intervention evaluation), data analytics and visualization, educational assessment and literacy research, environmental and regulatory analysis, and international development logistics and program management. Representative contract work includes a $7.25 million CDC Birth Defects Study on a time-and-materials BPA call basis, a $6.04 million CDC NCHS Communications digital strategy delivery order, a $3.75 million Department of Education task order for assisting students struggling with behavior in grades K–12 (subcontracting to RAND, Analytica Inc., and Anlar LLC for research and production support), a $2.27 million CDC Lab Coordination labor-hour definitive contract with Laboratory Corporation of America as primary subcontractor for diagnostic testing, and a $41.8 million USAID Kenya Malaria Vector Control Activity delivery order for supplies, equipment, and services supporting malaria control efforts. ABT also holds a $7.5 million multiple-award BPA with the Institute of Education Sciences for systematic research reviews and What Works Clearinghouse publications running through August 2025, and a federal grant cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Justice Statistics for the Federal Justice Statistics Program (covering FY2021–FY2024 continuation), demonstrating dual-track competency in contract and grant-funded research delivery.

ABT's parent contract vehicles reflect civilian-sector orientation. The Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS) vehicle carries 312 task orders worth $851.3 million combined potential value, the GSA Multiple Award Schedule holds 142 task orders totaling $175 million, and agency-specific IDIQs such as Federal Supply Schedule GS23F8107H (96 task orders, $23.6 million) and the EPA Environmental Services vehicle (58 task orders, $18.8 million) round out the primary portfolio. These vehicles position ABT for open competition across civilian agencies without requiring set-aside certification.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years: nine awards in 2022 contracted to two awards each in 2023 and 2024, with three awards recorded in 2026 through early April. Only six awards (combined potential value $10.4 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating modest near-term recompete exposure. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue on service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $631.5 million across FY2022–FY2024, with workforce levels declining from 1,043 FTEs in FY2022 to 392 FTEs in FY2024, reflecting a contraction in federal service-contract delivery. On SCI-reported contracts, government-paid hourly rates ran from a 10th percentile of $93.00/hr to a median of $183.22/hr and a 90th percentile of $764.75/hr, positioning ABT in the mid-to-senior research and technical-assistance price band.

ABT operates predominantly as a prime builder of its own delivery teams, with an average sub-hours share of 10% across SCI-reportable prime contracts and 114 named subcontractors reported. Where ABT subcontracts, named partners have included Research Triangle Institute (for regulatory analysis and emissions reporting work), Virginia Commonwealth University (for Work Incentive Planning and Assistance grant technical assistance under the Social Security Administration), the American Institutes for Research (for literacy program evaluation), and Impact Justice (for PREA system development and maintenance). ABT also acts as a sub to primes—recent sub work includes a position under Virginia Commonwealth University for Social Security Administration workforce development training and technical assistance (task orders through 2025), and a sub role under Virginia Commonwealth University for Work Incentive Planning and Assistance grant support beginning in 2023. The corporate structure includes named subsidiaries ABT Srbi Inc. (Subchapter S Corporation) and ABT Global LLC (the source entity, Limited Liability Company), though the source does not specify operational distinctions between them. ABT's award footprint and invoiced revenue have contracted materially in 2023–2024, suggesting either a shift in federal customer demand toward smaller task orders or a reallocation of internal capacity away from SCI-reportable federal service work.