Building Blocks Learning Center, Inc.

Building Blocks Learning Center, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Lincoln, Nebraska, operates exclusively as a federal grant sub-recipient, with all twelve recent awards flowing through the Department of Education Nebraska as prime grantee under child nutrition and child care block grant programs. The vendor holds no prime contracts, no IDV seats, and no direct federal awards; its entire federal footprint consists of sub-awards from the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service block grant programs administered by the state education authority.

Building Blocks functions as a sub-recipient of federal child nutrition and early care funding. All twelve awards in the source data originated from the Department of Education Nebraska acting as the prime grantee, with funding ultimately sourced from USDA's Food and Nutrition Service. Award descriptions cite "BLOCK" and "CNP_BLOCK" designations, indicating participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and related child nutrition block grant mechanisms. Five awards were issued in 2024 (May through October), five in 2025 (May through October), and two in the first half of 2026 (April and May). Combined dollar value across the twelve sub-awards totals $169 thousand, indicating modest per-award magnitude — approximately fourteen thousand dollars per sub-award on average.

The vendor's federal customer base shows extreme concentration: the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for one hundred percent of awards, accessed entirely through the Nebraska Department of Education as the state-level pass-through and prime grantee. This structure reflects the typical architecture of federal child nutrition programs, where USDA allocates block grant funding to states, which then sub-award to local providers — in this case, a learning center operator. The monthly cadence of awards (consistent May through October windows aligned with school and summer-meal calendars) suggests recurring annual sub-award cycles rather than project-specific procurement.

Building Blocks Learning Center operates at the ground level of federal child nutrition delivery: a sub-recipient learning center or school-based food service provider participating in block grant child care and nutrition programs. The vendor competes exclusively on a sub-recipient basis and carries no set-aside certifications beyond its woman-owned small business status. Given the source data span (May 2024 through May 2026) and the concentration of all work through a single state education authority, this vendor's federal exposure is highly localized to Nebraska's implementation of USDA child nutrition programs and carries no procurement vehicles, GWAC seats, or teaming leverage for contractors pursuing federal IT, professional services, or defense work.