Business Management Research Associates, Inc.

Business Management Research Associates, Inc., a veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor delivering Federal Acquisition Certification training, professional development, and acquisition workforce consulting services across 178 distinct federal agencies. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles, with VOSB and SDVOSB certifications expiring July 11, 2027.

BMRA's capability portfolio centers on FAC-C, FAC-COR, and FAC-PPM certification training delivery, contracting officer representative skills, project management development, grants management, appropriations law, and financial management training. Representative prime work includes a $1.5 million professional and management development training BPA with the Office of Performance Management and the Chief Financial Officer (awarded August 28, 2024, running through July 31, 2029); a $12 million Homeland Security Acquisition Institute training development and delivery BPA with GSA (awarded September 30, 2024, covering course design and Section 508 compliance remediation); and a $1.536 million HHS acquisition workforce course development delivery order on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (awarded September 30, 2026, running through September 2031). BMRA performs work primarily with its own staff, reporting zero subcontractor engagement across SCI-reportable prime contracts in FY2022–FY2025.

BMRA's customer base is highly dispersed: the top five agencies by award count account for 25% of recent prime awards, led by the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (68 awards, $24.2 million), the Department of State Foreign Service Institute (63 awards, $16.5 million), the Department of the Navy (61 awards), HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (50 awards), and the Small Business Administration Office of Performance Management and the Chief Financial Officer (34 awards, $3.8 million). By dollars, GSA Federal Acquisition Service dominates at $323.2 million combined potential value across 14 awards—this reflects BMRA's foundational $305.5 million Federal Supply Schedule contract (awarded August 21, 2023, running through August 20, 2028) anchoring the vendor's federal market position. The FTA and GSA Office of Human Resources Management follow with $24.2 million and $21 million respectively, while DHS Chief Procurement Officer and CMS bring $18.9 million and $17.3 million.

BMRA holds a dominant position on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), with 613 task orders valued at $337.2 million in combined potential value—the parent vehicle for roughly 90% of award volume. The vendor also operates under multiple single- and multi-award BPAs, including a $150 million CMS FAC-C/FAC-COR/FAC-PPM/Continuous Learning Points BPA (total small business set-aside, awarded May 9, 2024); a $10 million Office of the Secretary of Defense virtual financial management training BPA (awarded March 3, 2026); a $7.5 million Naval Sea Systems Command training BPA (total small business set-aside, awarded November 14, 2022); a $4.2 million HHS centralized training BPA (total small business set-aside, awarded June 16, 2022); and a $12.4 million Federal Transit Administration IDIQ for procurement system reviews on a labor-hours basis (total small business set-aside, awarded March 8, 2022, with five task orders issued through September 2026). The vendor also holds active BPAs with the Department of Homeland Security ($3.75 million, total small business set-aside), DISA ($3.9 million), and multiple other agencies.

Activity has fluctuated year to year—55 awards in 2022, 58 in 2023, 40 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 21 through September 2026—reflecting task-order issuance patterns under multi-year vehicles rather than organic growth or decline. Combined potential value across all 1,121 awards (1,120 prime, 1 sub) reaches $35.82 billion, but obligated dollars total only $76.6 million (0% of potential value), typical for IDIQ and BPA vehicles where ceilings substantially exceed invoiced activity. SCI-reportable invoicing shows $15.2 million across FY2022–FY2025: $2.1 million in FY2022 (2.1 FTEs), $4.7 million in FY2023 (2.2 FTEs), $5.4 million in FY2024 (5.5 FTEs, reflecting peak delivery), and $3 million in FY2025 (3.1 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts tracked at a median of $169.27/hr (10th percentile $102.67/hr, 90th percentile $432.12/hr). The vendor's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 35 categories priced from $71.39 to $360.40 per hour, covering administrative support through senior subject matter experts at the master's degree level, with no security-cleared positions offered.

Twenty-five awards totaling $5.6 million in combined potential value complete within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure for the vendor and recompete opportunity for competitors on Federal Transit Administration PSR task orders, GSA MAS calls, and multiple agency-specific BPAs. As of October 2026, BMRA maintains its singular position as the dominant federal acquisition training contractor operating under veteran-owned small business set-asides, with particular depth in GSA vehicle positioning and FAC-domain course development.

BMRA's 50+ years of experience includes acquisition and business training and professional services such as instructional systems design (ISD) for federal, state, and local government organizations. BMRA has a fully-staffed office in Manassas, VA, with easy access to all federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., and surrounding regions. BMRA retains a cadre of more than 150 instructors who are subject matter experts in all aspects of business processes relating to the government.