Cognitive Agility LLC

Cognitive Agility LLC, a woman-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Fairfax, Virginia, provides professional development training, career counseling, and job search curriculum design to the Foreign Service Institute as a prime contractor on full-and-open (non-set-aside) task orders and purchase orders. The company competes without set-aside designations across its entire federal footprint, despite holding SBA certifications as a woman-owned small business and small disadvantaged business.

Cognitive Agility's customer concentration is singular: 18 of 20 awards (95% of potential value, $386 thousand combined) flow from the Foreign Service Institute under the Department of State, with one additional State task order and one award from NIH's Office of the Director. The Foreign Service Institute engagement anchors on a $200,000 multiple-award BPA (19FS1A23A5014) running through December 27, 2027, under which Cognitive Agility has issued seven task orders valued at $106 thousand combined. Individual task orders under the BPA and related purchase orders typically range from $3,500 to $15,453, with recurring scope across the Junior Staff Professional (JSP) and Job Search/Transition Program (JSTP) initiatives. Representative awards include a $15,453 BPA call for training services (February 2025), a $5,625 purchase order for administrative modification and training services (June 2025), and a $5,625 purchase order for "creating a complete portfolio" in the FY24 JSP RV102 program (August 2023). The vendor's capability set clusters on individual and group counseling, career coaching, job search training curriculum development, and leadership skills programming delivered primarily to Foreign Service professionals in Arlington, Virginia.

Activity has remained modest and flat, with two awards in 2022, five each in 2023 and 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 through March. Combined potential value across all 20 awards sits at $390 thousand, with $233 thousand obligated to date (60% realization rate). One award ($5 thousand potential value) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, posing minimal recompete exposure. The vendor operates as a prime on 19 of 20 awards (95%); the single subcontract is a leadership coaching and training development sub to Communication Institute International under a Federal Management Partners engagement, delivering individual and group coaching sessions and LDP training facilitation. Cognitive Agility registers in PSC Education/Training (Training/Curriculum Development on 13 awards; Lectures on 4) and primary NAICS 611430 (Professional and Management Development Training). The Foreign Service Institute relationship appears to center on named staff capability — contract descriptions recur with personnel name Melynda Benlemlih across multiple years — signaling a boutique, individual-contributor service model rather than scaled delivery infrastructure.

Founded in 2014, Cognitive Agility, LLC provides services in human capital, organizational development, leadership and workforce development, executive coaching, strategic planning, change management and communications, teambuilding, facilitation, and training.

We support organizations in private, government, and non-profit sectors to fulfill their missions through empowering their employees, leaders, and teams to be their best and meet mission goals. Our clients include DOD, DOT, NIH, Air Force University, DHS, FAA, EPA, USDA, NOAA, and the Dept of State, as well as higher education and professional associations.

The founder, Melynda Benlemlih, is an ICF PCC certified coach and holds a Master's in Workforce Development and Education. She is certified to deliver StrengthsFinder, MyEverything DiSC suite of assessments as well as 360 assessment tools.

She is open to teaming opportunities as a subcontractor and accepts micropurchases via credit cards.