Inspire Events LLC

Inspire Events LLC, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business and SBA Certified 8(a) Joint Venture based in Philadelphia, operates as a prime contractor specializing in federal event planning, conference logistics, and stakeholder engagement services. The vendor competes predominantly under set-asides when available, with recent awards split across 8(a) Sole Source, Total Small Business, and full-and-open designations.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on comprehensive event management — conference planning, logistics coordination, staffing support, and local event management — grounded in federal civilian agency work rather than defense contracting. Representative work includes a $4.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) serving as the primary vehicle for task orders; a $263,558.84 BPA task order from NTIA for conference planning and closeout conference management services (award date February 4, 2025, completion September 30, 2025); a $428,565.23 definitive contract from the National Transportation Safety Board for event planning support services for an NTSB hearing in East Palestine, Ohio (June 2023); and a $376,753.00 task order from the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security for planning and management of the BIS Annual Conference on Export Controls and Policy (November 2023).

Customer concentration is extreme. NTIA accounts for 20 of 27 awards (100% coverage of the combined potential value) and $5.8 million of the $7.1 million combined potential value — a structural dependency on a single agency BPA vehicle. The Federal Highway Administration (3 awards, $482 thousand), the National Transportation Safety Board (2 awards, $432 thousand), the Bureau of Industry and Security (1 award, $377 thousand), and the U.S. Census Bureau (1 award, $21 thousand) round out the customer base but represent marginal volume. Inspire Events holds a single significant vehicle: the NTIA Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA 1331L523A13350023), a $4.5 million single-award contract through January 17, 2028, from which 20 task orders have been issued with combined potential value of $3.3 million.

Activity has contracted sharply. The source shows 19 awards in 2023, 5 in 2024, 2 in 2025, and 1 through April 2026. Combined potential value stands at $7.1 million, with $3.6 million obligated (51% execution rate). The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor across the award footprint; no sub-award activity is recorded. SCI-reported invoicing in FY2024 totaled $274 thousand across 0.6 FTEs, with government-paid hourly rates ranging from a 10th percentile of $178/hr to a 90th percentile of $261.79/hr and a median of $219.90/hr. SCI coverage is a strict subset of federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, products, and non-federal revenue; the $274 thousand in FY2024 SCI-reported invoicing does not represent the vendor's total federal revenue. The vendor does not engage subcontractors across SCI-reportable prime contracts.