Consumer Technology Association

Consumer Technology Association (CTA), a tax-exempt non-profit organization based in Arlington, Virginia, serves as the federal government's primary vendor for Consumer Electronics Show (CES) booth space and conference facilities, operating as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders with no set-aside designations. CTA competes exclusively as a prime; it holds no subcontracts and operates entirely outside the small-business set-aside ecosystem.

CTA's federal footprint is dominated by real-estate leasing and conference services. The vendor's award portfolio reflects two distinct transaction streams: 68 awards under NAICS 331511 (Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings) and 10 awards under NAICS 711320 (Convention and Trade Show Organizers). The representative work CTA performs is booth rental and exhibit space provisioning at the annual CES trade show — a $30,000 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) for a 20x30 foot booth at CES 2025 (completed March 2025); an $18,400 purchase order from the Transportation Security Administration for booth space at CES 2023 (January 5–8); a $19,200 TSA booth purchase order at CES 2024 (January 9–12); and a $19,400 National Institute of Standards and Technology purchase order for CES 2027 sponsorship on behalf of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (scheduled January 9, 2027). These orders span a span of customer agencies including TSA, NIST, ARPA, the Office of Technology Transitions, and the US Patent and Trademark Office, all acquiring conference and exhibit access through CTA's role as show organizer and space provider.

Customer concentration is bifurcated between a dominant real-estate leasing portfolio and smaller trade-show service work. The General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service Central Office Office of Leasing accounts for 14 awards and $26.1 million in combined potential value, representing 26% of all potential value across the portfolio and suggesting GSA is securing property-leasing services from CTA. The remaining 77 awards serve 12 other agencies — primarily NIST, the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation, DoD, NOAA, USPTO, and the Department of Energy — all in smaller ticket sizes. The recent CES booth work (five awards across 2021–2026) collectively carries ceiling values between $13,800 and $48,000 per show year.

CTA's entire prime footprint operates through a single vehicle: Basic Ordering Agreement GS11B01918, under which 66 task orders carry $95.4 million in combined potential value. This vehicle is the backbone of the vendor's GSA leasing relationship. Activity is sporadic rather than sustained — one award in 2021, one in 2022, three in 2023, one in 2024, and one in early 2026 — with only one award (valued at $19 thousand) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure in the booth-space business line.