Collaborent LLC

Collaborent LLC, a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Superior, Colorado, provides facilitation, mediation, and collaborative conflict-management services to the Department of the Interior and subordinate bureaus as a prime contractor under a single dominant indefinite delivery vehicle. The vendor competes exclusively under women-owned small business set-asides on the primary vehicle; most individual task orders issued against that vehicle are not set-aside but remain accessible to the WOSB-certified vendor through the underlying IDV structure.

The vendor's capability footprint is narrow and specialized: conflict resolution, mediation, facilitation of leadership meetings and workshops, executive coaching, organizational development support, and alternative dispute resolution across diverse mission areas within DOI—land use, natural resources, civil rights, diversity and inclusion, IT governance, and human capital management. Representative work includes a $180.7 million delivery order to the Bureau of Indian Education's Pine Ridge School for facilitation and collaborative problem-solving services; a $159.7 million order to the National Park Service's Learning and Development program for mediation and conflict-management coaching; and a $227.5 million order to the NPS Leadership & Development program for facilitation and collaborative engagement services. SCI-reported invoiced revenue across the seven prime contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $639 thousand from FY2022 through FY2024, with median government-paid rates around $357.54/hr and senior labor pricing reaching $6,077.56/hr—a span indicating a mix of practitioner and principal-level delivery.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of the Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget (the contracting office for the primary vehicle) anchors 32 awards valued at $18.8 million combined potential value. The National Park Service National Office holds 24 awards worth $1.8 million. The Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3, the National Park Service Northeast Region, and the Bureau of Reclamation together account for 35 additional awards. Across the top five customer entities, 91 awards (55% of the portfolio) represent 90% of combined potential value—reflecting the vendor's almost exclusive dependence on DOI work through a single relationship.

The vendor operates exclusively through one parent vehicle: IDC 140D0421D0002, a single-award, woman-owned small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contract with DOI's Office of Policy Management and Budget. This vehicle carried a $6.15 million ceiling and expired in January 2026. On June 16, 2026, the same contracting office awarded Collaborent a recompete vehicle with an $8 million ceiling, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside, running through June 15, 2031. The new vehicle procures conflict management professional services—mediation, facilitation, coaching, and training—to support the Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution (CADR) and the integrated conflict-management system across up to 1,900 DOI locations nationwide, with the requirement to deploy personnel to Washington D.C. within one business day when required. The 161 task orders placed against the prior vehicle generated $6.2 million in combined potential value; the recompete represents a direct continuation of this relationship at increased capacity.

Award activity peaked in 2023 (43 awards) and 2024 (42 awards), declining to 14 awards in 2025 and 8 through July 2026. The recompete cliff shows 11 awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carrying combined potential value of $288 thousand—a modest near-term recompete exposure relative to the vendor's portfolio. However, the transition from the prior $6.15 million IDV (which expired January 2026) to the new $8 million vehicle (awarded June 2026) leaves a gap: task orders placed between January and June 2026 may fall between the two vehicles' operational windows, creating execution risk if the prior contract terminated before the new one was operationally active for task-order issuance.

Across the SCI-reportable service contracts, Collaborent delivered 0.3 FTEs in FY2023 and 0.4 FTEs in FY2024 against a vendor base that operates as an owner-led, small practitioner firm. The firm maintains no subcontractor footprint; all delivery is performed in-house. The vendor's NAICS concentration is absolute: 164 of 166 awards fall under NAICS 541612 (Human Resources Consulting Services), with two outliers under 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services). The PSC footprint mirrors this narrow specialization: 162 awards are coded as Support-Professional-Other, with single awards across natural resources, program management, human resources, and management support.

Collaborent's market position is wholly contingent on its sole-source relationship with DOI's CADR office and the IDV vehicle reserved for women-owned small businesses. The vendor does not compete on broader government-wide acquisition contracts, does not subcontract to larger primes, and does not diversify across customer agencies outside Interior. The recompete from the prior $6.15 million vehicle to the new $8 million vehicle signals DOI's confidence in the vendor's execution but also locks the vendor into a single customer and contracting office for the next five fiscal years. Any disruption to the IDC 140D0421D0002 successor relationship, or a shift in DOI's demand for third-party mediation and facilitation services, creates existential risk to the vendor's federal footprint.