American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association, doing business as A P A, is a tax-exempt nonprofit scientific and professional organization based in Washington, D.C., that serves as the primary accrediting and certifying body for psychology training programs and provides database subscriptions, professional services, and conference support to federal agencies as a prime contractor operating entirely without federal subcontractors. APA competes in the full-and-open federal marketplace with no set-aside designations across its portfolio.

APA's federal footprint centers on psychology training accreditation, credentialing, and professional membership services delivered to military, veterans' healthcare, and civilian agencies. The organization holds a $2.91 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters for the VA Enterprise-wide Psychology Training Accreditation (VEPTA) program running through May 2, 2027, under which the VA has issued 32 task orders (combined potential value $10.1 million) covering initial applicant reviews, site visits, annual accreditation and facility fees, and program standardization for psychology internship and residency programs nationwide. Representative VEPTA task orders include a $7.5 million award (June 2023) for comprehensive accreditation program support, a $572,808 call (September 2024) for annual fees, and a $567,920 call (June 2026) for July and August 2026 site visit fees. Beyond the VA BPA, APA has issued numerous smaller purchase orders from the Defense Health Agency (ranging $5,176 to $10,352 annually) for psychology internship and residency accreditation fees at military medical centers including Fort Liberty, North Carolina and Womack Army Medical Center. APA also holds a $2.91 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (36C10G22A0002) with an unnamed single-award custodian under which 8 additional task orders carry $12.3 million in combined potential value. APA sells PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES database subscriptions to the Social Security Administration (a $73,195 purchase order awarded June 2026 for access through September 2029) and provided a $23,342 three-year electronic databases single-site license to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (July 2023). The vendor also hosts federal conferences and professional development events: it received a $1.9 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Mental Health Services (awarded September 2024, running through September 2029) for the Minority Fellowship Program in mental health and substance abuse services targeting doctoral and master's students and postdoctoral trainees from communities of color, and grants from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education for the APA Introductory Psychology Initiative and a virtual conference for two-year-college psychology educators.

Customer concentration is extremely heavy on the VA system. The Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters accounts for 42 awards (combined potential value $29.8 million), representing 80% of the top-five customers' combined potential value. Within the VA, subsidiary networks issue smaller order volumes: Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 placed 19 awards ($124 thousand combined), and networks 10 and 23 issued 12 awards each ($37 thousand and $46 thousand respectively). The Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is the second-largest funding source by dollars (11 awards, $1.9 million), followed by the Social Security Administration (9 awards, $372 thousand), the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons (11 awards, $144 thousand), and the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (19 awards, $75 thousand). Across 72 distinct customer agencies, the top five account for 86% of combined potential value.

APA's primary contract vehicle is the VA VEPTA BPA (36C10G22A0002), which anchors over $10 million in task-order potential value. A second BPA designated VA11916A0474 carries 8 task orders valued at $12.3 million. The Defense Health Agency issues purchase orders outside formal IDVs. Activity grew modestly from 2022 through 2024 (8 awards in 2022 to 18 in 2024) before declining to 4 awards in the first half of 2026. Eleven awards (combined potential value $900 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and present recompete exposure for both APA and competitors seeking to displace it on the VEPTA BPA.

On federal service contracts above the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold, APA reported $1.2 million in invoiced revenue across FY2023–FY2024 (zero in FY2022), corresponding to roughly 3.1 FTEs in FY2023 and 3.4 FTEs in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from $81.91 per hour at the 10th percentile to $88.08 per hour at the median to $89.48 per hour at the 90th percentile. APA performed all work with in-house staff; the vendor recorded zero subcontractor hours on SCI-reportable prime contracts. The small SCI footprint reflects the composition of APA's portfolio: most federal work consists of small purchase orders for annual accreditation and membership fees, database subscriptions, and task-order calls under the VA BPA — all of which fall below or near the SCI $150,000 threshold and therefore do not appear in the SCI invoicing dataset. The combined $37.5 million in stated potential value across all 664 awards (101% obligated as of the source date) substantially exceeds SCI-reported invoicing, indicating that the $1.2 million SCI figure captures only a subset of APA's actual federal services delivery.