American Heart Association, Inc.

American Heart Association, Inc. is a Dallas-based tax-exempt nonprofit organization that functions as a federal prime contractor and grant recipient, delivering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and cardiovascular health training courseware, supplies, and certification services to federal agencies without relying on set-aside designations. The organization competes full-and-open across both contract and grant programs, functioning as a specialized provider of emergency medical training and health education resources rather than through disadvantaged-business or small-business set-asides.

The American Heart Association's federal contract portfolio centers on two concrete capability streams. The first is electronic courseware and instructor-led training materials for CPR, basic life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), Heartsaver first aid, and automated external defibrillator (AED) instruction — delivered primarily to the VA as multi-million-dollar delivery orders under a Basic Ordering Agreement with VA Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick. Representative examples include a $6.7 million delivery order awarded December 20, 2024, for electronic courseware adding Heartsaver items (completion June 30, 2025), a $5.8 million delivery order awarded June 6, 2025, for the same scope (completion June 30, 2025), and a $5.0 million delivery order awarded April 5, 2024 (completion April 4, 2025). The second stream is physical CPR supplies and training materials supplied to Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice Management Specialty Training Centers; recent examples include a $313,263 purchase order to Management Specialty Training Center Aurora for CPR training supplies (April 1, 2026) and a $106,703 purchase order to the Bureau of Prisons for CPR supplies (completion May 7, 2024). Beyond training, the American Heart Association also provides access to the Get with the Guidelines stroke registry and related clinical tracking databases to VA medical centers through small-dollar purchase orders running multi-year periods.

Customer concentration is sharp. The Department of Veterans Affairs Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick dominates the portfolio with 15 awards worth $62.1 million combined potential value, accounting for a majority of federal contract revenue. The Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation ranks second with 9 awards ($18.8 million), followed by the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Management Specialty Training Center Aurora (6 awards, $649 thousand). Together these three customers represent 49% of recent awards by count but generate 99% of combined potential value, signaling extreme dollar concentration at VA. The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health National Heart Lung and Blood Institute each account for 6 awards but carry minimal contract dollar value, with their primary engagement routed through grant programs rather than procurement.

The American Heart Association sits on two named parent vehicles: a Basic Ordering Agreement (36C10X20G0001) with 12 task orders worth $54.9 million combined potential value, and an Indefinite Delivery Contract (W900KK15D0007) with 8 task orders worth $9.1 million. The BOA with VA Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick is the dominant vehicle, anchoring the multi-million-dollar Heartsaver and electronic courseware delivery orders. The organization functions as a prime contractor on 81 of 85 recent awards (95%), with four grant sub-awards to the National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center representing its sub engagement.

On the grant side, the American Heart Association holds three active cooperative agreements and one project grant as a prime recipient. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a cooperative agreement (effective August 1, 2024, completion July 31, 2029) for capacity-building work with public health system decision-makers addressing cardiovascular disease prevention, hypertension management, and obesity, with specific focus on Life's Essential 8 measures. The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion awarded a cooperative agreement (effective September 30, 2023, completion September 29, 2028) for advancing community approaches to end menthol and flavored tobacco use in Arizona, targeting Maricopa and Pima Counties. The Appalachian Regional Commission awarded a project grant (July 1, 2025, completion June 30, 2026) for health promotion and disease prevention. The American Heart Association also received a Public Health AmeriCorps project grant (July 1, 2022, completion August 31, 2025) under which it deployed 100 AmeriCorps members across 26 states to support blood-pressure control and cardiovascular health promotion in rural areas.

Activity trajectory has flattened. The organization recorded 8 awards in both 2022 and 2023, 9 in 2024, declining to 5 in 2025 and 2 in 2026 year-to-date. The recompete cliff shows minimal near-term exposure: only one award totaling $18 thousand faces completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a stable renewal posture across the portfolio. SCI-reported invoiced revenue declined from $11.2 million across 7.5 FTEs in FY2022 to $9.8 million across 3.8 FTEs in FY2023 and $746 thousand across 3.8 FTEs in FY2024, reflecting the partial and episodic nature of SCI coverage across the American Heart Association's broader federal service footprint. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts ranged from $116.21/hr at the 10th percentile to a median of $266.60/hr and $497.98/hr at the 90th percentile, reflecting a mix of subject-matter expert delivery and administrative support labor. The organization subcontracts zero hours on prime contracts, delivering all courseware development, instruction, and training material supply internally.