Association Of State Dam Safety Officials, Inc.

Association of State Dam Safety Officials, Inc., doing business as ASDSO, is a Kentucky-based tax-exempt nonprofit that delivers dam safety training, education, and professional development services to federal natural-resources and emergency-management agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing exclusively full-and-open without set-aside designations.

ASDSO's customer base is concentrated in natural-resources and infrastructure-resilience agencies. The top five customer agencies by award count or potential value account for 57% and 52% of awards, respectively. The Federal Emergency Management Agency leads both rankings (11 awards, $5.6 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (13 awards, $1.8 million), the Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service (14 awards combined across the national office and Central Region, $483 thousand), and the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (1 award, $2.1 million). A material divergence between count and value rankings surfaces in CISA's single large award relative to the higher-frequency but lower-dollar work at Interior and USDA agencies. ASDSO holds a seat on the Federal Supply Schedule GS10F0261R, where six task orders carry $3.4 million in combined potential value.

ASDSO's primary work centers on classroom and web-based dam-safety training, annual national conferences and workshops, lessons-learned repositories, and peer-review services for state dam safety programs. Representative prime contract work includes a $4.36 million firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by FEMA on September 30, 2024, running through September 2029, to deliver training and education support services for the National Dam Safety Program with a base period of twelve months and four optional extension periods; a $212.6 thousand purchase order from FEMA (March 2022) for web-based training and a dam failure and incidents website; and a $46.1 thousand purchase order from the Bureau of Reclamation (July 2022) for independent review panel assessment of dam safety processes. ASDSO also acts as recipient on multiple federal grant awards: four cooperative agreements with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (most recent award September 2025, running through December 2026) to design and deliver dam safety training classroom seminars and online webinars for NRCS staff; and one federal grant sub-award (August 2024) performing program evaluation for North Carolina's dam safety program under an unspecified grantor.

Activity has remained flat across the past five years (three awards per year in 2021–2024, one in 2025), with a combined potential value of $21.3 million across 77 total awards and $14 million in obligated dollars (66% of potential value). Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in that window. ASDSO's award portfolio concentrates on Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (16 awards), Professional and Management Development Training (13 awards), and Professional Organizations (8 awards) by NAICS classification, and on Education/Training—Scientific/Management (12 awards) and Special Studies/Analysis—Other (10 awards) by PSC code. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold reached $1.8 million in FY2022–FY2024 combined (FY2024: $1.2 million across 2.2 FTEs), with government-paid median hourly rates around $454/hr and senior labor pricing through $989/hr on those SCI-captured contracts. ASDSO performs work entirely in-house across SCI-reportable primes with zero sub-engagement share and operates as a subcontractor to no named federal prime contractors in the source data.