Aaalac International

Aaalac International, a non-profit organization headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, provides laboratory animal care and use program accreditation, assessment, and certification services to federal research agencies as a prime contractor on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations. The organization holds a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Defense Health Agency (ceiling $249,999, extended through December 2026) supporting annual accreditation at multiple Army medical research facilities, including the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Aaalac International's customer base spans 51 distinct federal agencies, concentrated among defense and health research institutions. The Department of Veterans Affairs anchors the dollar ranking with $1.8 million in combined potential value across ten awards, followed by the Department of the Army Medical Command at $990 thousand across 120 awards. By award count, the Army Medical Command dominates with 120 awards (covering 45% of recent activity), the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery follows with 42 awards, and the Food and Drug Administration places third with 40 awards totaling $420 thousand. The Veterans Affairs contract represents Aaalac's largest single engagement — a definitive contract valued at $1.847 million (ultimate completion January 24, 2028) for accreditation services of animal care programs at VA research facilities, awarded February 2, 2023. Recent representative work includes a $58,375 definitive contract with the CDC for animal welfare audit and certification (ultimate completion December 31, 2027), a $41,368 purchase order with the Office of the Director for IRB animal program assessment and accreditation, and a $40,163 purchase order with the National Eye Institute for 2025 annual accreditation fees.

Aaalac competes exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) without subcontractors. The award portfolio spans 559 total awards since 1993, with recent activity showing three awards in 2023, six in 2024, three in 2025, and two in 2026 as of late September 2026; six awards carrying combined potential value of $2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Category concentration clusters in professional, scientific, and technical services: 234 awards fall under NAICS All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, 106 under Veterinary Services, and 49 under Professional Organizations. The top PSC code, Support-Professional certifications and accreditations (other than education or information technology), accounts for 147 awards. SCI-reportable service contract invoicing totaled $300 thousand in FY2025, with zero reported FTE headcount allocable to federal service contracts in the SCI dataset across all years — a reflection of the fact that Aaalac's federal revenue stream consists primarily of membership fees, annual accreditation subscriptions, and assessment services purchased as small purchases or purchase orders rather than larger service contracts meeting the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold.