Columbia Lighthouse For The Blind

Columbia Lighthouse For The Blind, a Washington, D.C.-based AbilityOne non-profit agency, provides document processing, mailroom operations, medical administrative support, and Section 508 accessibility compliance services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The organization operates without SBA set-asides and does not compete under small-business or socioeconomic preferences; all recent awards are full-and-open procurements. Columbia Lighthouse For The Blind has maintained an active federal contracting presence since 2002, with a mission centered on creating meaningful employment for visually impaired individuals while delivering specialized administrative and technical services across civilian and defense agencies.

The vendor's customer base is heavily concentrated in federal employee benefits and medical services. The top five customer agencies by combined potential value account for 77% of the vendor's total award value: the Department of the Army National Guard Readiness Center leads with $37.2 million across three awards (largely the $18.4 million health document scanning and indexing contract awarded April 22, 2026, plus a $3.5 million medical document conversion and scanning continuation contract); the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 contributes $9.6 million across twelve awards; the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations contributes $9.2 million across four awards; and the General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service contributes $7.5 million across six awards. By award count, however, the Department of Justice Federal Correctional Institution Cumberland dominates with twenty-nine awards valued at $930 thousand combined potential value, representing recurring purchase orders for medical bookkeeper services delivered October 2021 through the present.

Columbia Lighthouse For The Blind competes predominantly on GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicles and agency-specific IDIQs. The vendor holds task orders under five named indefinite-delivery contracts, with the largest portfolio sitting under an unnamed VA IDC (six task orders, $3.1 million combined potential value) and a fourth-option exercise under DoD Readiness Center IDC W9133L20C1007 (Option Period 4, $3.5 million, completing October 2025). GSA Schedule 07F16441 carries four task orders valued at an undisclosed amount. Recent major task orders include the $18.4 million National Guard Bureau health document scanning and indexing base award (ultimate completion April 5, 2031), a $2.2 million Defense Contract Management Agency contract-closeout specialist and supervisor delivery order under the Multiple Award Schedule (completing January 5, 2027), and a $4.6 million DISA Section 508 compliance support contract for DCMA (completing August 13, 2027). On the civilian side, the vendor holds a $2 million mailroom operations contract with the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (completing August 31, 2030) and a $125.8 thousand document destruction contract with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (completing April 30, 2031).

The vendor's service footprint spans routine administrative and technical labor. Across GSA Schedule offerings, eight labor categories run from $25.90/hr (Document Prep Clerk, high school education) through $92.11/hr (Contract Closeout Supervisor, bachelor's degree, five years experience), with no security-cleared roles. SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts captured $7.4 million across FY2022–FY2024, with median government-paid rates around $47.68/hr and senior labor pricing through $55.23/hr. The vendor delivered roughly 25–34 FTEs per fiscal year on SCI-reportable contracts during this period, with minimal subcontractor reliance (4% average sub-hours share across prime contracts). Only one named subcontractor relationship appears in recent SCI records.

Activity remains episodic rather than growth-oriented. The vendor executed three awards in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026, compared to a sustained pace of one to three awards annually over the prior five years. Two awards totaling $6.8 million combined potential value face completion inside the next twenty-four months, triggering moderate recompete exposure. The vendor's long federal contracting tenure, stable customer relationships (particularly the recurring medical bookkeeper work with FCI Cumberland and the multi-million-dollar vehicle seats with VA and DoD), and exclusive focus on prime contracting position Columbia Lighthouse For The Blind as a specialty provider in federal office administration and document processing rather than a growth-stage competitor.