BLT Fund9 Bethesdan, LLC

BLT Fund9 Bethesdan, LLC is a for-profit limited liability company based in Bethesda, Maryland that provides hotel accommodations, conference room space, and audiovisual equipment rental to the federal government as a prime contractor operating under single-award indefinite delivery vehicles and blanket purchase agreements with the National Institutes of Health. The vendor competes in full-and-open contracting with no set-aside designations across all recent awards.

The company's capability portfolio centers on temporary lodging and hospitality logistics for two distinct NIH use cases. First, BLT Fund9 Bethesdan supplies patient and family hotel stays at the NIH Clinical Center—the intramural clinical research hospital—to house patients traveling from distant locations to participate in biomedical research studies and medical trials. Representative awards include a $29,963.89 purchase order from the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations on July 13, 2026 for patient-related travel hotel invoices, a $483,426 order from Navy Installations Command on October 27, 2025 for lodging and applicable taxes, and a $33,529.63 purchase order from the National Assessment Governing Board on April 20, 2026 for the May 2026 quarterly board meeting providing 82 room nights at federal per diem rates plus conference facilities, coffee service for 60 attendees, and hybrid video conferencing capability. Second, the vendor furnishes lodging, meeting space, and audiovisual support for NIH peer review meetings—where independent scientists convene to evaluate extramural research grant applications. Typical peer review orders range from $5,000 to $50,000 and cover temporary accommodations, conference setup with breakout session capability, and AV equipment enabling scientific expert panel evaluations.

Customer concentration anchors to the NIH system. The top five customer agencies account for 98% of awards by count and 99% of combined potential value. The NIH Clinical Center leads by volume with 151 awards valued at $4.1 million, followed by the NIH Center for Scientific Review with 98 awards valued at $1.6 million. However, by potential value, the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations dominates with 13 awards carrying $10.3 million combined potential value—a divergence driven by larger blanket purchase agreement ceilings. Navy Installations Command, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and National Institute of General Medical Sciences round out the active customer set with smaller exposures. The vendor has worked with nine distinct federal agencies in recent activity.

BLT Fund9 Bethesdan holds two parent vehicles anchoring its federal work. A single-award indefinite delivery contract with the NIH Clinical Center, valued at $750,000 with performance through December 31, 2023, authorizes task orders for patient lodging services supporting clinical research operations. A single-award blanket purchase agreement with the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations carries a $10 million ceiling with a five-year performance period through December 31, 2027, and authorizes task orders for hotel accommodations, conference room space, and audiovisual equipment rental across NIH institutes and centers. The BPA vehicle has driven 99 task orders valued at $1.7 million combined, and a second BPA (HHSN263201700029B) has generated 13 task orders worth $127 thousand.

Activity has grown significantly over recent years, rising from 20 awards in 2022 to a peak of 110 awards in 2024, then moderating to 31 awards in 2025 and 12 as of mid-2026. The vendor recorded 278 prime awards across all federal sources since 2017, with combined potential value of $16.7 million and combined obligated dollars of $5.8 million (35% utilization). Work is performed entirely in Bethesda, Maryland, with no identified subcontractors. Award category concentration is extreme—276 of 278 awards fall under NAICS 721110 (Hotels except Casino Hotels and Motels), with the remainder split between taxi services and conference space rental. Purchase order structures dominate the award type, with individual task orders typically completing within one to seven days of issuance, reflecting the on-demand nature of patient lodging and peer review logistics support.