JSI Research & Training Institute Inc.

JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit organization, delivers global health, public health, and international development technical assistance, research, and program implementation services to federal agencies and international development partners as a prime contractor (71% of recent awards) and subcontractor on health, education, and humanitarian initiatives. The organization holds seats on multiple federal vehicles including the OASIS+ Unrestricted 8(a) IDIQ and the Comprehensive Technical Assistance for Health Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical Management IDIQ, and maintains a GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 24 labor categories spanning junior project associates through senior principals at rates from $73.10 to $279.90 per hour.

JSI's customer base is heavily concentrated in international development and health agencies. The top five funding sources by award count—HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (30 awards), USAID (29 awards), the Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard (15 awards), HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (15 awards), and HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (14 awards)—account for 39% of awards. By potential value, USAID's Bureau for Management anchors the portfolio at $2.51 billion combined potential value across seven awards, reflecting JSI's extensive work on global health initiatives. The dollar concentration is pronounced: 86% of combined potential value flows through the top five customers, with USAID dominating. Recent prime contract work includes a $2.6 million delivery order from HHS for accelerating self-measured blood pressure integration to control chronic disease through the Evaluations and Evidence Building IDIQ (awarded July 2026, completion January 2029), a $1.68 million HHS delivery order for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program best practices compilation under the same IDIQ (awarded December 2024, completion September 2027), and a $9.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from USAID's mission in Tanzania for health supply chain and pharmaceutical management under the COMPTA IDIQ (awarded December 2024, completion August 2026).

JSI operates across a dense portfolio of federal grant programs targeting global health, public health, education, and humanitarian aid. The vendor acts as prime recipient on approximately 18 cooperative agreements and project grants from USAID, HHS, the Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department, and the Department of Labor. Representative grant work includes a $7.18 million cooperative agreement from USAID for an urban health activity in Bangladesh (October 2024–October 2029), a $2.4 million project grant from HHS Health Resources and Services Administration to establish a virtual learning collaborative for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program dental partnership recipients (awarded September 2025, completion September 2027, with Rutgers University as a named subrecipient), a $265,000 cooperative agreement from the Coast Guard under the National Nonprofit Organization Recreational Boating Safety Grant Program to continue the National Life Jacket Wear Rate Study across 125 sites in 30 states (awarded October 2025, completion September 2026), an Inflation Reduction Act grant from EPA Region 8 to establish the Mountains and Plains Environmental Justice Grants Hub as a pass-through entity distributing up to $48 million in subawards to community-based nonprofits in six-state Region 8 (awarded January 2025), and a $553,455 cooperative agreement from the State Department's Bureau of Political Military Affairs for weapons removal and explosive ordnance disposal in Laos (awarded July 2024, completion June 2028). Grant sub-award activity is extensive: JSI subcontracts to state health departments (Massachusetts Department of Public Health, New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services), university partners (Tufts University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Massachusetts Lowell), and international partners on topics including substance use disorder services evaluation, immunization systems support, STI/HIV prevention technical assistance, child labor and climate change mitigation, and zoonotic disease prevention.

JSI holds a $344.7 million single-award IDIQ from HHS for evaluations and evidence-building services, with a ceiling and performance through September 2027. The contract funds program evaluations, evidence-building activities including needs assessments and predictive analytics, communication and dissemination of findings, and data optimization. Place of performance is Rockville, Maryland. JSI also sits on the OASIS+ Unrestricted 8(a) multiple-award IDIQ (awarded December 2024, ultimate completion December 2029), which carries a placeholder ceiling and enables government-wide competition for professional services including technical assistance, research, and program implementation. Additionally, JSI holds one of approximately six positions on the $2.2 billion COMPTA multiple-award IDIQ issued by USAID (awarded January 2024, completion January 2034), which procures comprehensive technical assistance for global health supply chain and pharmaceutical management strengthening.

Recent activity shows material growth: four awards in 2022 rose to 51 in 2024, then moderated to 20 in 2025 and seven through August 2026. Sixteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.7 million, exposing only modest recompete risk in that window. Service Contract Inventory data covering federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $43.2 million across FY2023–FY2025 (FY2023: $32 million across 203 FTEs; FY2024: $8.4 million across 59.9 FTEs; FY2025: $2.8 million across 11.0 FTEs on JSI's prime records). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid rates run around $75.73 per hour, with rates ranging from a 10th-percentile floor of $68.83/hr to a 90th-percentile ceiling of $104.85/hr. Subcontractors perform approximately 28% of contractor hours on JSI's prime SCI contracts; across all prime and sub records, JSI has engaged 15 named subcontractors.

As a subcontractor, JSI delivers specialized expertise to prime contractors including Research Triangle Institute (providing early-grade literacy and learning support in Cambodia and adult education programming across multiple USAID cooperative agreements), Jobs For the Future (digital education solutions), and academic institutions including Tufts University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and American Institutes for Research on global health research, implementation science, and program evaluation activities. The vendor's sub-award posture reflects a hybrid delivery model: while JSI builds substantial internal capacity (primarily on its own USAID and HHS grants), it also leverages sub-recipient and subcontractor relationships to scale delivery and access specialized skills in data analytics (Brac University, Dushtha Shasthya Kendra in Bangladesh), health financing (Thinkwell Global), supply chain governance (RTI International), and field implementation across international contexts.

JSI's corporate structure includes six subsidiaries: John Snow, Incorporated (for-profit), John Snow India Private Limited, Insupply Health Limited, World Education Inc. (nonprofit), Partnership For Supply Chain Management Inc. (nonprofit), and Community Economics Corporation. The John Snow merger (completed December 2023) expanded JSI's technical footprint in zoonotic disease prevention, supply chain management, and international health implementation, with named John Snow India operations supporting global health programming. The broader portfolio—spanning health systems strengthening, HIV/AIDS and STI prevention, immunization systems, substance use disorder services, child labor prevention, environmental justice, and education outcomes—positions JSI as a primary implementer on HHS and USAID health and development initiatives, with secondary engagement on defense and homeland security agency programs routed through specialized partners rather than direct JSI prime awards.