The Graceland College Center For Professional Development And Lifelong Learning, Inc.

The Graceland College Center For Professional Development And Lifelong Learning, Inc., doing business as Skillpath, is a Mission, Kansas–based nonprofit organization that delivers professional development training and soft skills instruction to federal agencies as a prime contractor. Skillpath operates entirely in the full-and-open market with no set-aside certifications; its 684 recent federal awards span 123 distinct customer agencies with combined potential value of $41.1 million, though only $3.2 million (8% of potential value) has been obligated to date, reflecting the small-dollar, low-velocity transactional profile characteristic of its purchase-order-driven model.

Skillpath's capability portfolio centers on soft skills and professional development instruction — leadership training, communication workshops, technical skills courses (Excel, Microsoft Office), team building, supervisor transition instruction, and time and task management — delivered across in-person onsite sessions, virtual instructor-led training (VILT), webinars with digital workbooks, and customized onsite programs. Representative recent prime awards include a $27.8 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Bureau of Administration (awarded September 2026) for six in-person Customer Service Excellence course configurations accommodating 40 to 50 students each in Arlington, Virginia, with completion by January 2027; a $3 thousand purchase order from the Defense Health Agency (February 2025) for a Critical Thinking and Problem Solving course; and a $3 thousand purchase order from the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (January 2025) for a 30-attendee "How to Successfully Make the Transition to Supervisor" webinar with digital workbook. Skillpath's award history extends back to 2002; awards have grown modestly from two in 2022 to a recent peak of eight in 2023, then declined to two in both 2024 and 2025 and one in 2026, suggesting volatile or declining pipeline momentum.

Skillpath's customer concentration is highly dispersed — the top five agencies account for only 6% of awards, driven by the Office of Personnel Management (12 awards, $83 thousand combined potential value) and NASA Shared Services Center (8 awards, $63 thousand). By dollar value, the US Mint leads with $105 thousand across six awards, followed by the FBI Headquarters Division ($100 thousand across four awards). This fragmentation across 123 customer agencies reflects Skillpath's role as a commodity training provider accessed through standing purchase authority rather than prime contract vehicles. Skillpath held a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the Export-Import Bank of the United States valued at $7.5 million with a performance period through April 2, 2028; however, this BPA was cancelled and closed out following an Executive Order 14398 notification that the contractor did not acknowledge, eliminating Skillpath's largest known vehicle ceiling. The vendor places six task orders under the Federal Supply Schedule GS10F0342M, generating $24 thousand in combined potential value. Skillpath operates no subcontracting relationships in the source data and is neither a subcontractor to larger primes nor a prime with named subs — it is exclusively a direct-to-customer training provider.

Within the next twenty-four months, only one award (combined potential value $28 thousand) faces recompete or completion, indicating minimal near-term contract turnover risk and thin pipeline concentration. The vendor's service footprint spans the Professional and Management Development Training NAICS category (221 of 684 awards), with secondary concentrations in Computer Training (20 awards) and Business and Secretarial Schools (15 awards); purchase-order PSC codes dominate, with Education/Training (Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees) comprising 142 awards.