Colleague Consulting, LLC

Colleague Consulting, LLC (doing business as Colleague & Company), a women-owned small business based in Greenbelt, Maryland, delivers professional training, executive coaching, organizational development consulting, and leadership development services to federal civilian agencies and DoD components as a prime contractor. The firm holds SBA certification as a Women-Owned Small Business and competes across both set-aside and unrestricted procurements, with a substantial recent footprint in women-owned small business set-asides and total small business designations.

Colleague Consulting's capability portfolio centers on human capital management, executive coaching, training delivery, curriculum development, and organizational consulting. Recent work includes a $1 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Defense Acquisition University Grants 201 course updates and virtual instructor-led training through September 2030, a $22 million Federal Supply Schedule contract with the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (effective through February 2029) covering 34 labor categories and government-wide availability, a $5.1 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Internal Revenue Service for executive coaching services through September 2027, and a $540 thousand Blanket Purchase Agreement with the National Nuclear Security Administration for organizational development consulting, leadership and team development, and strategic planning services. The firm also holds seats on the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) government-wide IDIQ, delivering training and professional development services to multiple civilian agencies.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward civilian agencies. The top five customers by award count — Department of Energy Headquarters (337 awards, $29.1 million), Office of Personnel Management (84 awards, $255.6 million), Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service (76 awards, $65.4 million), Department of Energy Office of Management (49 awards, $8.3 million), and Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (39 awards, $2.1 million) — represent roughly 50% of awards by count. By potential value, however, the picture shifts dramatically: the GSA Federal Acquisition Service accounts for $7.05 billion (99% of combined potential value) through Colleague Consulting's Federal Supply Schedule position. Beneath that anchor, Office of Personnel Management stands second at $255.6 million, followed by Treasury IRS at $65.4 million, DOE Headquarters at $29.1 million, and the Department of State Foreign Service Institute at $27 million. The concentration reflects the firm's deep penetration into civilian workforce development and training markets, particularly IRS, State Department, and DOE, balanced against the enormous ceiling embedded in the GSA Schedule vehicle.

Colleague Consulting operates across multiple indefinite-delivery vehicles. The top five parent contracts by task-order count are the Indefinite Delivery Contract DEHC0000011 (409 task orders, $17.2 million), the Indefinite Delivery Contract DEAM0104ME09857 (240 task orders, $10.2 million), the Multiple Award Schedule (239 task orders, $82.1 million), OPM Training and Management Assistance (230 task orders, $8.9 million), and The Professional Services Schedule (119 task orders, $12.2 million). The firm maintains a strong GSA Schedule footprint, with 34 labor categories spanning administrative support at $52.83 per hour through subject-matter expert roles at $404.61 per hour, covering educational requirements from high school through bachelor's degree with no security-cleared positions offered. Recent delivery orders across the GSA Schedule include women-owned small business set-aside work: a $38.8 thousand order from the Office of Disability Employment Policy for writing training and coaching (September 2026), a $43.1 thousand order from the Air Force for grants training courses and updates (February 2026), and a $43.1 thousand order from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for grants training courses (May 2026).

Award activity has been volatile across the past five years. The firm received 12 awards in 2022, 17 in 2023, 14 in 2024, and only 3 each in 2025 and 2026 through late September — a sharp contraction from prior-year volume. Only five awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $1.4 million, reducing near-term recompete exposure relative to the firm's installed base. The source identifies 1,176 total awards (all prime) across fifty-one distinct customer agencies, with combined potential value of $7.49 billion and combined obligated dollars of $72.3 million (roughly 1% of potential value), signaling that most awards are vehicles or schedule contracts with low current obligation rates.

Service Contract Inventory data shows modest federal service-contract invoicing: $11.5 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2024 as the peak at $4.5 million. SCI-reported federal FTE delivery ranged from 4.2 FTEs in FY2022 to a high of 8.8 FTEs in FY2024, settling at 4.4 FTEs in FY2025. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates run $351.09 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $155.75 per hour and the 90th percentile at $777.48 per hour, reflecting a mix of training delivery and senior consulting work. Across SCI prime contracts, Colleague Consulting performs 100% of hours in-house (0% average sub-hours share), indicating a build-your-own-delivery-team model rather than a heavy-subcontracting strategy. The firm has no documented sub-award activity in the source award data, operating exclusively as a prime contractor across its federal footprint.

Human resources consulting and professional management development training account for the vast majority of categorized work: 917 awards under Professional and Management Development Training (NAICS 611430) and 241 under Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (NAICS 541690). By PSC code, Education/Training—General (574 awards) and Education/Training—Lectures (284 awards) dominate, with smaller volumes in Training/Curriculum Development (147 awards) and Education/Training—Other (85 awards). This concentration underscores the firm's positioning as a civilian-agency training and leadership development specialist, with little to no apparent exposure to defense acquisition, IT modernization, or engineering service lines.

Founded in 1997, Colleague Consulting is a women-owned small business (WOSB) with extensive experience in providing training, leadership coaching, and organizational development (OD) consulting services to the federal government and commercial clients. We offer a catalog of more than 100 off-the-shelf courses that can be tailored to the specific needs of each audience, streamlining the course development process and maximizing the use of available funds. Our course topics include:

Leadership and Management; Interpersonal Skills; Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI); Human Capital and Human Resources; Program and Project Management; Acquisition and Contract Management; Federal Financial Management; and Federal Grants and Financial Assistance. Our OD services include change management, strategic communications, employee engagement, teambuilding, strategic planning, and leadership retreat facilitation.