Accreditation Council For Pharmacy Education

Accreditation Council For Pharmacy Education, a Chicago-based tax-exempt nonprofit, operates as a federal prime contractor (99% of awards) delivering professional accreditation services and consolidated credentialing membership fees to healthcare agencies, with no set-aside designations across its federal portfolio. ACPE serves as a sole-source provider of interprofessional continuing education and professional licensing accreditation spanning pharmacy, medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, and dentistry disciplines.

ACPE's customer base concentrates on health-focused civilian agencies. The Department of Veterans Affairs dominates potential-value ranking at $499 thousand combined across five awards, anchored by a $236 thousand single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA 36C77624A0002) running through February 2029 for joint accreditation for interprofessional continuing education services, with three task orders valued at $139 thousand combined. The Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service ranks second by potential value ($419 thousand across ten awards) and accounts for the plurality of award count among the top five customers (43% coverage), with recurring purchase orders for annual joint accreditation fees ranging from $31.5 thousand to $197.4 thousand. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office places the largest award count (18 awards, $298 thousand potential value) through annual fiscal-year purchase orders for consolidated accreditation services integrating eight professional credentialing bodies into a single application and fee structure. The Food and Drug Administration (11 awards, $258 thousand) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pittsburgh (4 awards, $207 thousand) round out the top five by potential value. Recent representative work includes a $197.4 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the Indian Health Service awarded February 12, 2026, extending through December 31, 2030, for Clinical Support Center annual joint accreditation fees; a $146.5 thousand sole-source purchase order from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded January 21, 2025, running through January 20, 2030, for joint accreditation annual fees; and a $153.75 thousand purchase order from the CDC awarded January 31, 2022, running through January 31, 2027, for joint accreditation membership renewal fees.

Activity has remained flat year over year across the past five years (four awards in 2022, four in 2023, six in 2024, five in 2025, three in 2026 year to date), with four awards (combined potential value $381 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and facing recompete. ACPE subcontracts minimally—one named sub-award to Deloitte Consulting LLP on a November 2024 Defense Health Agency continuing education program office support task. The vendor's federal contracting footprint is distributed across 18 distinct customer agencies with no concentration risk; the top five customers account for 68% of combined potential value. ACPE's NAICS profile clusters under Educational Support Services (54 awards) and Professional Organizations (16 awards), with corresponding PSC categories of Education/Training Certifications and Accreditations for Educational Institutions (17 awards) and Support Professional Certifications and Accreditations Other Than Educ or Info Tech (22 awards). SCI reporting shows minimal service-contract invoicing—0.2 FTEs recorded in FY2024 as a named subcontractor on a single contract above the $150 thousand threshold, indicating that ACPE's federal revenue derives predominantly from purchase orders and BPA calls under $150 thousand and from annual membership and application fees rather than labor-hour service contracts.