ACI Federal Inc.

ACI Federal Inc., operating as ACI Federal, is a minority-owned, Subcontinent Asian American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Fredericksburg, Virginia, that delivers temporary healthcare staffing, clinical nursing services, and administrative workforce solutions to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards). The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business organized as a Subchapter S Corporation competing across both Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders, with recent activity dominated by the Department of Labor's Job Corps program.

ACI Federal's customer footprint has concentrated sharply in the past eighteen months. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Job Corps accounts for 25 awards valued at $13.2 million combined potential value, while the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions division holds 20 awards worth $4.2 million. Together, these two customer entities represent 80% of recent award count. By dollar value, however, a single outlier reshapes the picture: the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pittsburgh has one award valued at $99.5 million, representing 99% of the vendor's total combined potential value across all awards—a striking divergence that signals a major recent win. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 holds a $3.2 million clinical nursing staffing delivery order under the GSA Professional and Allied Healthcare Staffing Services schedule, awarded September 2023 through February 2026.

ACI Federal's recent capability work concentrates on Job Corps Priority 3 Essential Services delivery—temporary clinical and non-clinical staffing across residential training centers nationwide. Representative work includes a $1.9 million delivery order for non-clinical support services at Pine Ridge Job Corps Center (August 2026, GSA MAS, firm fixed price), a $1.1 million order for non-clinical staffing at Lyndon B. Johnson Job Corps Center (August 2026, GSA MAS), a $954 thousand order at Oconaluftee Job Corps Center (August 2026, GSA MAS), and a $535 thousand delivery order for clinical support services at Great Onyx Job Corps Center (October 2026, GSA MAS, firm fixed price through September 2031). Earlier work included a $446 thousand definitive contract for medical services at Pine Knot Job Corps Center in Kentucky (January 2026, firm fixed price through June 2031) and a $307 thousand definitive contract for medical services at Columbia Basin Job Corps Center in Washington (April 2026). The vendor holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $25,000 for support services across Job Corps centers through October 2026 and a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement for Licensed Practical Nurse and Licensed Vocational Nurse staffing at Federal Detention Center SeaTac, valued at $82 thousand through January 2027.

ACI Federal operates under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) and the GSA Professional and Allied Healthcare Staffing Services schedule (FSS-621-I). On the Multiple Award Schedule, the vendor has placed 33 task orders worth $14.9 million combined potential value, primarily for Job Corps staffing. On the Professional and Allied Healthcare Staffing Services schedule, 5 task orders carry $102.8 million in combined potential value—this aggregate is driven entirely by the CDC Pittsburgh outlier award. The vendor holds two additional Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Department of Labor and one with Naval Sea Systems Command.

Activity trajectory shows explosive growth concentrated in the past twelve months. The vendor received 4 awards in 2021, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2024, 19 in 2025, and 29 in 2026, reflecting a shift toward rapid scaling within the Job Corps program. Over the next twenty-four months, 16 awards with ultimate completion dates between now and October 2028 carry combined potential value of $11.4 million, representing recompete exposure concentrated in Job Corps deliveries currently executing through July 2027 and January 2028.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue provides a partial and outdated view of federal services activity. The vendor reported $63,000 in prime-contract invoicing across FY2023 under a single contract paying roughly $73.67 per hour, with 0.4 FTEs delivered to the government in that fiscal year. SCI data covers service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and omits goods, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue; it does not capture the bulk of ACI Federal's recent Job Corps task-order activity, which is heavily populated by firm fixed-price delivery orders rather than hourly-rated service contracts, nor the $99.5 million CDC award. On its GSA schedules, ACI Federal prices administrative and IT labor categories at $27.22 to $71.38 per hour—administrative assistants at $34.38/hr, IT specialists at $52.07/hr, virtual server administrators at $71.38/hr—with high school education requirement across categories and no security-cleared labor offered.

The vendor operates predominantly as a prime contractor, with negligible subcontractor engagement. One subcontract award to CACI Inc. Federal in April 2024 for background investigative services does not signal a material teaming pattern; ACI Federal's footprint is built on prime delivery orders rather than sub-award dependency. The company's federal portfolio expanded from episodic healthcare staffing work with the Department of Veterans Affairs (the $3.2 million VISN 7 nursing contract) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons into sustained, high-volume engagement with the Job Corps program beginning November 2025, anchored by delivery orders placed under existing GSA schedule vehicles rather than new competitive procurements.

Telehealth, Telemedicine, Healthcare IT, Information Technology, Informatics, Healthcare Security, Staff Augmentation