Bright Minds Learning Center LLC

Bright Minds Learning Center LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Alaska, operates exclusively as a grant sub-recipient delivering child nutrition services to the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service through the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development. The company holds no federal contracts or IDVs in prime capacity and has not pursued federal contracting vehicles; all 47 recent awards are sub-awards under the Child and Adult Care Food Program, with funding flowing from USDA through the state's education department.

Bright Minds Learning Center's entire federal footprint consists of sub-recipient participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (a U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service initiative). The vendor receives recurring meal-reimbursement and cash-in-lieu sub-awards from Alaska's Department of Education and Early Development, which holds the prime grant from USDA. Sub-awards began in September 2023 and have continued on a regular cadence: eight awards in 2023, twenty-one in 2024, sixteen in 2025, and two in the first quarter of 2026. The company's recent activity shows acceleration through 2024 followed by a moderation in award frequency through early 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all forty-seven awards total seventy thousand dollars, indicating sub-awards of modest individual size distributed across a high transaction volume — a characteristic pattern for child nutrition provider sub-awards that are issued on a meal-by-meal or periodic reimbursement basis.

Customer concentration is total: the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 100% of awards, with all transacting executed through Alaska's state education department as the prime grantee. Bright Minds Learning Center has no relationship with other federal agencies, no prime contract work, and no multi-agency exposure. The vendor's role is narrowly specialized — operating as a child care facility sub-recipient that qualifies meal costs and cash-in-lieu expenses under federal nutrition programs, rather than as a federal contractor or consultant.