Academy Health

Academy Health, operating through its Academyhealth Division, is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC that provides health services research, policy analysis, data visualization, and stakeholder convening services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards). The organization competes in full-and-open procurement categories with no set-aside designations across its federal portfolio.

Academy Health's capability portfolio centers on research dissemination, knowledge translation, and evidence-based practice implementation. The organization convenes stakeholders across federal agencies, state Medicaid programs, and healthcare practitioners through conferences, workshops, and symposia to translate research findings into actionable policy and clinical practice improvements. Representative work includes a $900,000 delivery order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (awarded September 2026) to implement workshops and symposia on research topics supporting evidence-based practices in veteran care under a $4 million single-award IDC running through June 2027; a $719,586 delivery order from the same customer (September 2025) for similar stakeholder convening work; a cooperative agreement from the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (awarded September 2023, completing September 2025) to eliminate barriers to immunization through state interagency collaboration and a Vaccine Information Sharing and Education Resource learning network; and a project grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (awarded August 2022, completing July 2027) for healthcare delivery system innovations for children with medical complexity. Academy Health also delivers data visualization services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and hosts the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, a principal dissemination conference that convenes approximately 3,000 producers and users of health services research annually, supported through project grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and purchase orders from CDC and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Customer concentration aligns sharply with veteran health research and CDC epidemiology portfolios. The top five customer agencies account for 32% of recent awards by count but 66% of combined potential value. Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 anchors the portfolio with 24 awards valued at $12.5 million combined potential value, driven largely by delivery orders under the single-award IDC. The Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ranks second by potential value at $12.4 million across five awards, with CDC Pittsburgh accounting for $1.1 million across 19 awards and CDC Office of Acquisition Services also delivering $1.1 million across 24 awards. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services contributes $185 thousand across 13 awards. The two rankings diverge modestly: CDC places many small purchase orders (data visualization, annual research meeting registrations, and ARM sponsorships), while VISN 1 and AHRQ anchor most dollars through larger delivery orders and grants.

Academy Health holds a single-award IDC with Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (contract 36C24E22D0019, ceiling $4 million, ultimate completion June 30, 2027) that has issued six task orders valued at $4 million combined. The organization also places work under an additional IDC (VA24117D0070) with 12 task orders valued at $1.6 million combined, and maintains positions on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and two blanket purchase agreements (263MJ113274 and 276035519).

Recent activity shows declining award velocity: 11 awards in 2022 declining to one award in 2026 (year-to-date). Four awards carrying combined potential value of $920 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure. The $4 million VISN 1 IDC completes June 30, 2027, placing it outside the near-term cliff but flagging a significant recompete opportunity in late 2026 / early 2027.

Academy Health operates as a prime on nearly all work (97%) and does not systematically subcontract delivery. SCI-reported invoicing of $747 thousand appears in FY2025 only, reflecting the $150,000 reporting threshold; the SCI dataset shows approximately 2.9 FTEs delivered to the federal government in FY2025. On the single SCI-reportable prime contract, the government-paid rate held steady at approximately $341/hr across the 10th, median, and 90th percentiles. Academy Health acts as a named subcontractor on CDC and VISN 1 awards issued to Capital Consulting Corp and appears as a sub-recipient under University of Pittsburgh and Rutgers grants addressing opioid use disorder treatment equity and housing disparities in Medicaid, and under National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors grants for specialty support in Medicaid policy and quality measure implementation.

The organization's footprint reflects a specialized positioning in federal health services research translation and evidence-based practice dissemination rather than broad IT, management consulting, or professional services delivery. Across 284 total awards spanning 1997 to present, Academy Health competes full-and-open without SBA set-aside designations, indicating neither small-business targeting nor small disadvantaged business status in its federal posture.