Knowledgeworks Global LTD

Knowledgeworks Global LTD, a for-profit subsidiary of CJK Group, Inc. based in Brainerd, Minnesota, provides editorial, publishing, and scientific journal production services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, competing in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation. The vendor holds three single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), valued at $2.5 million, $1.1 million, and $216,650, and performs journal copyediting, composition, developmental editing, and peer review support for NIEHS's Environmental Health Perspectives and Journal of Health and Pollution. Recent capability work includes a $1.2 million firm-fixed-price purchase order from NIH's Office of the Director (awarded September 21, 2026) to provide a fully integrated third-party hosted journal submission and web hosting platform for the Journal of Replication and Reproducibility, with 99.95% annual uptime guarantee, WCAG 2.2 Level AA accessibility compliance, redundant CONUS datacenters, and support for 20–40 articles in year one with 100,000+ monthly page views; a $337 thousand purchase order from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (awarded August 24, 2026) for peer review framework development, editorial leadership recruitment, and publishing product development for the new diamond open-access journal; and a $449,310 purchase order from NIEHS (awarded December 5, 2024) for a manuscript submission and tracking system supporting Environmental Health Perspectives and the Journal of Health and Pollution through December 2029.

Customer concentration is acute. NIEHS accounts for 18 of 25 awards (72% of all awards) and $5.7 million of $7.5 million combined potential value (76%), with the remainder distributed among NIH's Office of the Director ($1.2 million, one award), NIH's Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations ($337 thousand, one award), the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters ($296 thousand, three awards), and the Smithsonian Institution ($11 thousand, one award). Activity contracted sharply after 2023, when Knowledgeworks recorded eleven awards; subsequent years show two awards per year (2024–2026). One award worth $1.2 million reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing the sole recompete exposure in that window. All 25 awards are prime contracts; the vendor maintains no subcontract footprint. The top three NIEHS IDCs fund copyediting, composition, developmental editing, and peer review work across multiple task orders, with the $2.5 million JCPC vehicle (awarded March 1, 2022, running through February 2027) and the $1.1 million developmental editing vehicle (awarded September 29, 2023, running through September 2028) anchoring the portfolio. Work is performed primarily in Brainerd, Minnesota, with secondary locations including Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Bethesda, Maryland. The vendor competes in unrestricted federal procurements for journal publishing, scientific editing, and editorial support services across the NAICS categories of Internet Publishing and Broadcasting (9 awards), Document Preparation Services (7 awards), and Periodical Publishing (4 awards).