American Association Of Blood Banks, Inc.

American Association Of Blood Banks, Inc. (doing business as American Assc Of Blood Bank) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland that provides blood products, transfusion medicine accreditation services, and professional membership fees to federal healthcare agencies as a prime contractor across a diversified portfolio of over 650 federal awards spanning four decades. AABB operates exclusively as a prime and competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations.

AABB's capability portfolio centers on three concrete service lines: supply of blood products (red blood cells, platelets, fresh frozen plasma) delivered to federal medical facilities; accreditation and compliance assessment services for blood banking and transfusion medicine laboratories under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) standards; and annual professional membership and fee-based administrative services supporting federal healthcare operations. Recent representative awards include a $2.977 million firm fixed-price definitive contract with the Defense Health Agency through September 2030 for Armed Services Blood Program accreditation subscription services; a $2.857 million firm fixed-price purchase order with the Department of Veterans Affairs through September 2028 for tissue and transfusion laboratory accreditation, education, and professional membership services supporting over 120 VA medical centers; a $1.192 million purchase order from the Defense Health Agency through September 2030 for blood products delivered at Fort Bliss, Texas; and a $670 thousand delivery order from the NIH Clinical Center for red blood cells, platelets, and fresh frozen plasma. AABB also holds a $500 thousand single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the NIH Clinical Center through September 2026 for specialized blood products and laboratory services.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward medical agencies, but the two rankings diverge significantly. By award count, the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and the Department of the Army Medical Command each anchor 105 awards (44% of recent volume), though these military medical customers collectively represent only $4.0 million in combined potential value. By potential value, the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pittsburgh dominates with 8 awards valued at $107.7 million (96% coverage of total portfolio value), followed by the NIH Clinical Center (31 awards, $9 million), the Defense Health Agency (11 awards, $8.1 million), the Department of Veterans Affairs (2 awards, $4.7 million), and the Army Medical Command (105 awards, $3.9 million). This divergence reflects AABB's position as both a high-volume supplier of routine accreditation services to military medical commands and a specialized single-source provider of blood products and laboratory services to civilian research and public-health agencies.

AABB's top parent vehicles include the Blood Safety Technical Assistance Services vehicle (7 task orders, $7.7 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract 75N90020D00009 (5 task orders, $2.6 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract W81K0018D0002 (4 task orders, $608 thousand), and several single-task-order IDCs with military medical commands. Recent activity averages two to three awards per year (2023–2027), reflecting a mature, stable customer base. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months with minimal recompete exposure ($20 thousand combined potential value), indicating that AABB's customer relationships and contract terms are structured for multi-year continuity.

Award portfolio concentration by NAICS and Product Service Code reflects AABB's dual role as a professional organization and blood-products supplier. The largest category is Professional Organizations (176 awards), followed by Blood and Organ Banks (37 awards) and Educational Support Services (23 awards). By PSC, Books and Pamphlets (124 awards) and Education/Training Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees (98 awards) predominate, indicating high volume of routine annual membership and fee renewals; Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (62 awards) and Medical and Surgical Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies (44 awards) represent the blood-product delivery side. AABB's Service Contract Inventory activity is minimal — only $451 thousand in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue (FY2023) across roughly 1.3 FTEs — reflecting that AABB's federal work is predominantly goods-based (blood products) and fee-for-service (accreditation, membership) rather than labor-intensive service contracts above the SCI reporting threshold. Government-paid rates on SCI-reportable work ran at a flat $173.50 per hour, and AABB did not engage named subcontractors on SCI-reportable prime contracts. AABB operates as a vertically integrated supplier with no documented subcontractor footprint.