Library Associates Of Maryland, LLC

Library Associates Of Maryland, LLC, doing business as Lac Federal, is a for-profit limited liability company and a subsidiary of Library Systems & Services, LLC that delivers library and information management services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), operating on the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule and holding two significant federal Blanket Purchase Agreements valued at $150 million (Department of Justice) and $17.6 million (U.S. Department of Agriculture). The vendor competes full-and-open without socioeconomic set-aside designations across its prime footprint.

Lac Federal's customer concentration is dominated by civilian library and research functions. The top five funding agencies or offices account for 82% of combined potential value, anchored by the Department of Justice at $150.1 million (2 awards, both representing the $150 million DOJ Records Information Management BPA vehicle), followed by the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Central Program Planning Coordination and Support at $65.7 million (116 awards), the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at $13 million (2 awards), the General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service at $12.2 million (4 awards), and the Department of State Foreign Service Institute at $2.4 million (2 awards). The award-count ranking shows sharply different concentration: USDA Agricultural Research Service dominates volume (116 of 233 prime awards, 63% of the award population), while DOJ's single large vehicle anchors the dollar totals. The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (13 awards, $1.3 million), the Smithsonian Institution (7 awards, $1.3 million), and the National Library of Medicine (5 awards, $1.3 million) round out active customers.

Lac Federal's capability portfolio centers on librarian staffing, metadata curation and quality assurance, cataloging, digital collections management, interlibrary loan support, and library technical services. Representative work includes a $1.042 million NAL Public Access Metadata Support Services BPA call from USDA Agricultural Research Service (awarded January 15, 2025), a $779,366 Library Digital Projects and Products Support BPA call from USDA (awarded May 1, 2026), a $682,138 delivery order providing two reference librarians for the National Agricultural Library Customer Service Unit (awarded March 6, 2026), a $660,764 interlibrary loan services delivery order from the National Library of Medicine (awarded December 3, 2021), and a $556,915 data curation services delivery order for the National Agricultural Library (awarded February 15, 2024). Recent work also includes specialized roles such as a scholarly communication librarian within institutional planning and development ($367,169, awarded March 9, 2026), evidence-based review and customer services librarian support ($376,282, awarded September 23, 2025), and a metadata librarian for PubAg metadata quality support ($635,083, awarded September 30, 2026).

Vehicle position reflects heavy reliance on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which serves as the contracting mechanism across all major IDV and task-order work. The vendor holds or operates against 71 task orders under Federal Supply Schedule GS07F0367N ($40.3 million combined potential value), 71 task orders under the Multiple Award Schedule broadly ($193.6 million), 39 task orders under Indefinite Delivery Contract AG32SBC130013 ($3.7 million), and 27 task orders under Blanket Purchase Agreement GS07F0367N-1232SB18A0001 ($6.2 million). The two named IDVs are the $150 million DOJ Records Information Management BPA (awarded September 5, 2023, running through September 4, 2033) and the $17.6 million USDA Agricultural Research Service Library Services BPA for the National Agricultural Library (awarded August 23, 2023, running through August 22, 2028).

Activity has contracted year over year from 15 awards in 2022 to 6 in 2026, though absolute counts remain modest at a subsidiary level. Only five awards (combined potential value $2.1 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating limited recompete cliff exposure in the near term. The vendor operates overwhelmingly as a prime (230 of 233 awards, 99%), with only three sub-awards visible in the source: library services support to Government Solutions Group for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (awarded July 28, 2025), support for USCD and National Library of Medicine cross-functional initiatives under IT1 Source LLC (awarded January 7, 2025), and MEDLINE biomedical curators and data analysis services under Healykohler Design, Inc. (awarded November 14, 2024).

On the GSA Schedule labor portfolio, Lac Federal offers 72 active labor categories spanning hourly rates from $31.23 to $117.42 per hour, with no security-clearance requirements. The portfolio ranges from Library Assistant I ($31.23/hr, high school education) through Technical Writer I ($41.84/hr, associate's degree) and Analyst II ($63.03/hr, bachelor's degree) to Senior IT Project Manager ($117.42/hr, bachelor's degree with four years of experience), reflecting a capability span across administrative, technical, and analytical library and information support roles.

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows $3.7 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2025 (prime contracts only), with government-paid hourly rates running median $61.38/hr and ranging from a 10th percentile of $37.14/hr to a 90th percentile of $79.84/hr. FTE trajectory across SCI-reportable prime contracts grew from 9.3 FTEs in FY2022 to 8.5 in FY2024, then expanded to 6.3 in FY2025; the vendor self-performs across these records with no subcontractor hours reported in the average sub-hours share. SCI data represents only invoiced service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, products, and the broader delivery-order portfolio.

Lac Federal operates as the subsidiary of Library Systems & Services, LLC, a Rockville, Maryland–based for-profit LLC parent. The parent entity carries the federal contracts and IDV positions; Lac Federal executes and is the named awardee on task orders and delivery orders against those vehicles. This structure surfaces the parent company's significant $150 million DOJ RIM BPA and $17.6 million USDA ARS Library Services BPA as the core infrastructure enabling Lac Federal's federal market access.