Klein Buendel, Inc.

Klein Buendel, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Lakewood, Colorado, develops digital health interventions, mobile applications, and web-based behavioral health programs as a federal grant recipient (85% of recent awards as prime recipient) and research sub-recipient across public health and biomedical agencies. The vendor operates exclusively in the federal grant space rather than federal contracting; it has no federal contract prime awards and no GWAC or BPA seats.

Klein Buendel's customer concentration is tightly anchored to the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health accounts for 27 awards, with the National Cancer Institute placing 11 awards ($1.2 million combined potential value), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarding 9, and the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities contributing 6. The CDC represents an additional concentration point with 4 awards; these five customer entities account for 73% of Klein Buendel's recent award count and 82% of its combined potential value. The top concentration — NIH broadly — reflects Klein Buendel's positioning as a behavioral science and digital health research shop rather than a defense or civilian IT vendor.

Klein Buendel's recent prime grant work spans public health and adolescent health programs. Representative examples include a $311,149 CDC project grant awarded September 30, 2026, to develop MOMENTUM+, a mobile intervention reducing sedentary behavior among older cancer survivors using self-determination theory (completion September 29, 2027); a $311,239 CDC award for Parents and Schools for Sun Safety (PASS), a family-based skin cancer prevention program (completion September 29, 2027); a $300,172 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases grant awarded August 1, 2025, for NOWEIGH, a mobile app promoting physical activity in women with obesity through body neutrality frameworks (completed July 31, 2026); a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism project grant on policy and training interventions for responsible marijuana sales practices in Oregon (awarded September 20, 2023, completion August 31, 2026); and a National Heart Lung and Blood Institute award for a smartphone app delivering blood pressure-lowering inspiratory muscle strength training (awarded May 23, 2023, completed July 31, 2024). A cooperative agreement with the CDC for "Beyond Blame," an online media literacy curriculum for violence prevention, ran from September 30, 2023, through September 29, 2025. Earlier work included a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant for I-TRAC, a web-based emotion regulation skills training intervention for adolescent sexual health (awarded September 19, 2022, completion August 31, 2026), and an NICHD grant for EZPARENT hybrid delivery implementation (awarded September 17, 2024, completion August 31, 2028).

In its sub-recipient role, Klein Buendel provides web development, program hosting, data management, and technical support to academic and research organizations. Named sub-award relationships include work with The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (developing web-based programs for college-aged youth, managing data and hosting for randomized controlled trials; sub-awards in April 2023, April 2024, June 2025, and January 2026), the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (coordinating WayToServe responsible beverage service online training programs; sub-awards in March 2022, April 2023, and May 2025), Rhode Island Hospital (emotion regulation interventions for substance use prevention and dating violence prevention in youth; sub-awards in March 2024, May 2024, and April 2025), Rutgers The State University of New Jersey (indoor tanning policy investigation; sub-award September 2024), Emory University (Emory Prevention Research Center; sub-award December 2022), and The Ohio State University (converting and hosting the ezParent web-based parenting program; sub-award December 2021).

Activity has remained steady at 3–5 awards per year over the past five years, with the most recent award in late September 2026. Three awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing a modest recompete window. The combined potential value across all 78 awards totals $3.9 million, though obligated dollars ($95.4 million) reflect prior-year funding and multi-year grant continuations. Klein Buendel's business model centers on designing, building, and hosting digital health solutions for research institutions and public health agencies, with recurring sub-award engagement to academic medical centers and prevention research organizations.

Media production company specializing in multimedia and print-based health media and internet technologies. Services include graphic design and layout, desktop publishing, multimedia and web authoring.