America-Mideast Educational And Training Services, Inc.

America-Mideast Educational And Training Services, Inc., doing business as Amideast, is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that delivers English language instruction, educational advising, cultural exchange programming, and professional development training to federal agencies primarily across the Middle East and North Africa region, operating as a prime recipient on federal grants (99% of recent awards) and as a contract prime on smaller service purchases. Amideast holds no SBA set-aside designations and competes on full-and-open basis across State Department, USAID, and Department of Defense contracting offices.

Amideast's federal footprint centers on grant work with the Department of State. The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs dominates by award count (284 awards, $256 thousand combined potential value) and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs ranks second (89 awards, $300 thousand combined potential value), together accounting for 88% of recent awards. The two bureaus fund overlapping but distinct mission areas: BNEAA sponsors English language training, professional development, youth engagement, and cultural exchange in target countries including Jordan, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, West Bank, Gaza, Iraq, and Kuwait; BECA administers larger-dollar cooperative agreements for the Fulbright Foreign Student Program and EducationUSA advising operations across the region. USAID, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force round out the customer set. By potential value, the Air Education and Training Command anchors the portfolio with a $2.5 million ceiling indefinite-delivery contract (awarded March 25, 2025, performance through December 30, 2027) for English language instruction to the Royal Jordanian Air Force and Jordan Armed Forces; two delivery orders under this IDIQ have drawn $1.9 million combined potential value. A second vehicle, a Basic Ordering Agreement with the Bureau of Naval Personnel, carries an educational services scope but shows minimal recent obligation.

Representative prime grant work illustrates scope: Amideast administers the Fulbright Foreign Student Program for the Middle East and North Africa under a cooperative agreement with BECA (award date December 24, 2025, $6.8 million combined federal share through September 30, 2030), managing scholarships, participant recruitment, application screening, and enrichment activities for foreign graduate students and young professionals from the region studying or conducting research at U.S. universities. Under BECA's EducationUSA program (cooperative agreement dated November 2, 2023, running through March 31, 2026 and amended with an additional $300 thousand), Amideast administers advising services across Egypt, Gaza, Lebanon, Tunisia, West Bank, Yemen, and other countries as needed, providing U.S. higher education information and counseling. At the BNEAA level, Amideast operates and hosts American Corners (cultural centers) in Tunis, Sousse, Alexandria, and Beirut, delivering STEM programming, English language instruction, and civic engagement activities; recent project grants supporting these spaces range from sub-$50 thousand to approximately $200 thousand per award. Additional BNEAA work includes the Career Builders Project (a $100 thousand project grant, award date September 15, 2025, training Palestinian alumni in digital storytelling and leadership), the Palestinian Youth Leaders Program (empowering 162 young people in peacebuilding and nonviolent activism), and multiple English language and professional development initiatives targeting educators, journalists, and marginalized populations across the region.

On the contract side, Amideast's three largest awards are the $949,228.92 delivery order for English language training in Jordan (Air Education and Training Command, award June 15, 2026, completion June 14, 2027), the $937,831.36 delivery order for Royal Jordanian Air Force and Jordan Armed Forces training (same IDIQ, award March 25, 2025, completion May 31, 2026), and a $300 thousand purchase order for American Spaces networking contractor services in Israel (Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, award August 14, 2026, completion August 30, 2027). Smaller purchase orders for English language curriculum materials in Morocco, TOEIC testing administration for USAID and U.S. Mission hiring, and educational services to the Naval Academy round out the contract portfolio. All contract awards carry full-and-open (non-set-aside) designations.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years — 28 awards in 2022, 35 in 2023, 34 in 2024, nine in 2025, and four in 2026 (source snapshot through mid-October). Combined potential value across all 452 awards totals $259.6 million, but combined obligated dollars reach $553.6 million (213% of potential value), indicating heavy re-obligations on existing cooperative agreements. Nine awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $1.2 million combined potential value; most Amideast work is grant-based with annual or multi-year funding cycles rather than competitive recompete events. The vendor operates as a sub-recipient on four federal grant awards under American Councils for International Education and the Aspen Institute (supporting YES Project, NSLI-Y, and Qisasna podcast initiatives) and on one sub-award under Family Health International (strengthening teacher capacity in Bridge pilot schools); sub-award activity represents less than 1% of the recent portfolio. Amideast's federal contracting footprint shows no parent IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs beyond the two vehicles named above (the Air Education and Training Command IDIQ and the Naval Personnel BOA), reflecting its positioning as a mission-specialized nonprofit serving State Department public diplomacy and educational exchange mandates in the Middle East and North Africa rather than a broad government services contractor.