The Coleridge Initiative Inc.

The Coleridge Initiative Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Warren, New Jersey, operates a FedRAMP-authorized Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF)—a secure, cloud-based data enclave that enables federal researchers and agency personnel to store, access, and analyze sensitive government datasets while maintaining strict confidentiality and compliance standards. The organization functions as a prime contractor on all of its recent federal work, competing on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations across civilian research and statistical agencies.

The Coleridge Initiative's customer footprint centers on the Department of Agriculture, which accounts for 56% of awards in the source data and 99% of combined potential value across recent work. Within USDA, the organization maintains relationships with multiple divisions: the Economic Research Service (2 awards, $800 thousand combined potential value), the National Agricultural Statistics Service (2 awards, $107 thousand), and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's Veterinary Services division (2 awards, $74 thousand). Non-USDA customers include the National Science Foundation (1 award, $2.8 million combined potential value for research on open-source software innovation and developer networks), the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (1 award, $367 thousand for NCES Data Repository and secure data access operations), and the Department of Labor. Capacity is constrained relative to dollars: the organization serves 12 distinct federal agencies across 16 recent awards but holds a dominant single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) with USDA's Central Program Planning Coordination and Support (ceiling value $7.5 million through September 2029), which has generated five delivery orders totaling $1.6 million in combined potential value to date.

Representative prime work includes a $799,801 delivery order from USDA's Economic Research Service for secure data enclave services (completion September 2029), a $611,970 delivery order from USDA ERS for data enclave services (completion September 2026), and a $367,442 definitive contract with the Institute of Education Sciences for operation and maintenance of the NCES Data Repository (completion June 2026). The organization also holds a Cooperative Agreement with the National Agricultural Statistics Service running through January 2027 titled "Show Us the NASS Data." Recent activity shows growth—from two awards in 2020 to six in 2024—though the source data carries only one 2026 award to date. Three awards (combined potential value $759 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure.

In its subcontractor role, the Coleridge Initiative delivers data-related training, technical assistance, and research collaboration services. It operates as a named subcontractor to MDRC on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Data Collaborative 2.0 project (award date April 2024), to Atlas Research LLC on TANF data innovation work for the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (award date January 2024), and to CGI Federal Inc. on a follow-on task order for agencies transitioning to full production (award date August 2024). Sub work centers on data research, training design, and technical collaboration rather than infrastructure operations.

Service Contract Inventory data covering FY2022–FY2024 captures minimal federal service-contract invoicing ($47 thousand in FY2024 alone), reflecting the organization's operation as a research and data infrastructure provider where much work is structured as grants or IDC delivery orders rather than labor-hour service contracts. SCI-reported FTE scaling shows only 1.0 FTE in FY2024 across the captured records, indicating that the bulk of the Coleridge Initiative's federal work sits outside the SCI reporting threshold or under grant mechanisms. Across SCI-reportable prime records, the organization does not engage named subcontractors for labor delivery, building its own research and operations teams.