Department Of Vocational Rehabilitation

The Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, a division of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, operates as a state government entity that delivers food service operations and facilities management to the Army Sustainment Command at military installations in Kentucky under three single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts totaling $94.9 million through 2028. The vendor competes full-and-open (no set-asides applied) as a federal contractor leveraging the Randolph-Sheppard Act, which authorizes state vocational rehabilitation agencies to operate food service concessions on federal property while creating employment opportunities for individuals who are blind or visually impaired.

The Department of Vocational Rehabilitation's customer footprint is heavily concentrated within the Army. The top five funding entities account for 97% of recent awards: the Department of the Army Materiel Command Sustainment Command leads with 70 awards valued at $425.6 million combined potential value, the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region contributes 2 awards worth $81 million, the Kentucky Army National Guard accounts for 9 awards at $2.1 million, the Department of the Army supplies 24 additional awards, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Community Planning and Development and Fair Housing divisions combined) provides 12 awards. The concentration is skewed: Sustainment Command alone represents 84% of the vendor's combined potential value across all 119 awards.

The vendor's work portfolio splits cleanly across two capability areas. Food service dominates: 76 awards fall under NAICS 722310 (Food Service Contractors) and 31 delivery orders carry PSC H09800 (Operation of Dining Facilities). Facilities support—janitorial, custodial, and building maintenance—accounts for 16 awards under NAICS 561720 (Janitorial Services) and 8 awards under PSC H39900 (Housekeeping, Custodial, Janitorial). Representative work includes a $6.4 million firm-fixed-price delivery order (January 2026) for facilities management and food service at Fort Knox under the larger $65.5 million Fort Knox IDC, a $4.8 million dining facility attendant services order (January 2026) under the $24.95 million Fort Campbell Dining Facility Attendant IDC, a $1.4 million full food service order (February 2026) for Fort Campbell, and a $3.5 million facilities management order (May 2026) for Fort Knox.

Activity has remained modest but stable: 2 awards in 2022, scaling to 7 in 2024, with 4 awards in 2025 and 5 through May 2026. Four awards carrying combined potential value of $16.2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to recompete risk on a subset of its existing IDC task-order pipeline. The three parent indefinite delivery contracts—the $65.5 million Fort Knox full food service and facilities management vehicle (awarded November 2023, through November 2028), the $24.95 million Fort Campbell dining facility attendant services vehicle (awarded November 2023, through October 2028), and the $4.5 million Fort Campbell full food service vehicle (awarded February 2026, through January 2029)—anchor the vendor's delivery-order activity, with 24 task orders placed under IDC DAKF2396D0205 and smaller task-order volumes under the other two vehicles. The vendor is a subsidiary of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and operates no subcontract portfolio; all 119 awards are prime contracts or grants issued directly to the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation as the performing entity.