American National Standards Institute Incorporated

American National Standards Institute Incorporated, a Washington, D.C.-headquartered tax-exempt nonprofit organization and the official U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization, operates as a prime contractor delivering standards licensing, membership administration, and technical advisory group services to federal civilian agencies on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis with no set-aside activity across its entire federal portfolio.

ANSI's core federal capability set centers on ISO and domestic standards access, technical committee secretariat support, and membership dues administration. Representative contract work includes a $350,000 definitive contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (awarded September 2026) for development of a biorisk management framework for poliovirus containment, integrating ISO 35001, ISO/IEC 17021, ISO 9001, ISO 31000, ISO 45001, and WHO standards with deliverables spanning a working draft framework, standards mapping matrix, stakeholder convening, competency-based training, and a secure digital platform over a five-year potential performance period; a $472,000 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (September 2026) for annual ANSI membership and secretariat support to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 37 Biometrics Subcommittee running through 2030; a $217,700 purchase order from the Department of Transportation (March 2022) for initiation, maintenance, and support of a Technical Advisory Group representing the U.S. on ISO Technical Committee 269; and a $603,640 subscription services contract with the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Chief Information Officer (April 2023) for proprietary industry standards content covering information security and safety standards. On the grant side, ANSI is the recipient of annual project grants from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (fiscal years 2022–2026) for secretariat services administering ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 Biometrics, managing plenary and working group meetings across six technical working groups representing 28–30 international participating countries, and a cooperative agreement with the Department of State (September 2024) supporting the Global ICT and CET Standards Program.

ANSI's customer base spans 106 federal agencies. The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology dominates by award count (70 awards, $4.4 million combined potential value), but the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration concentrates the largest potential dollar value (6 awards, $25.2 million), followed by FDA (30 awards, $6.4 million combined potential value). Across the portfolio, 27% of recent awards are concentrated in these five top customers. NIST and FDA represent the agency relationship most relevant to competitive positioning—NIST anchors grants and standards-development contracts while FDA concentrates membership and technical advisory services. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months spans 17 awards with combined potential value of $1.3 million.

Vehicle activity is modest in scale. ANSI places 19 task orders under the Federal Supply Schedule GS02F0212P ($1.4 million combined potential value) and operates a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (ceiling $250,000) for ISO standards access, from which an initial $100,000 call was issued in September 2023. The EPA BPA runs through October 2026.

Activity has fluctuated year to year—18 awards in 2022, 22 in 2023, 16 in 2024, declining to 8 in 2025, with 13 recorded in 2026 year-to-date. SCI-reported service-contract invoicing (contracts above the $150,000 threshold captured in the federal Service Contract Inventory) totaled $680 thousand in FY2022, declining to $206 thousand in FY2024, with minimal FY2025 activity. The SCI dataset reflects 17 records across FY2022–FY2025 and captures only a subset of ANSI's federal activity, excluding membership fees, standards licensing purchases, and sub-$150,000 orders that dominate ANSI's actual contract footprint. FTE trajectory from SCI shows negligible federal service-contract employment—0.0 FTEs in FY2022–FY2024, rising to 0.1 FTEs in FY2025—consistent with ANSI's role as a membership and standards-licensing provider rather than a labor-intensive services contractor. ANSI does not use subcontractors on its federal work; 100% of awards are prime.

ANSI maintains a named subsidiary, Workcred, Inc., also a nonprofit organization. The corporation has been registered in the federal contracting system since at least 2001 and operates from 1899 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20036, with performance locations spanning Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Colorado, Nebraska, and Georgia, as work locations dictate for standards access, technical advisory group administration, and secretariat operations.