Library Associates Of Maryland, LLC

Library Associates of Maryland, LLC, doing business as Lac Federal, is a subsidiary of Library Systems & Services, L.L.C. that delivers library and information management services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing predominantly on full-and-open basis without set-aside designation. The vendor is headquartered in Washington, DC, and operates from Calverton, Maryland, and Washington, DC, serving 43 federal agencies across 231 awards (combined potential value $294.8 million) with SCI-reported invoiced revenue of $2.8 million across FY2022–FY2024.

Lac Federal's capability footprint centers on librarian staffing, metadata creation and curation, cataloging, digital collections management, interlibrary loan support, records information management, and library platform implementation. Recent representative work includes a $1.042 million BPA call (awarded January 2025) from USDA for National Agricultural Library public access metadata support services, a $682 thousand firm fixed-price BPA call (March 2026) providing two reference librarians for NAL's Customer Service Unit, a $779 thousand BPA call (May 2026) for Library Digital Projects and Products Support, a $556 thousand delivery order (February 2024) for NAL data curation services, and a $647 thousand BPA call (September 2024) providing a librarian for the U.S. Forest Service's Smokey Bear Collection Project. SCI-reported invoicing of $2.8 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $1 million; FY2023: $694 thousand; FY2024: $1.1 million) reflects deliveries at scale of roughly 8–10 FTEs per fiscal year; on federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $61.38 per hour, with the spectrum spanning $37.14 per hour for entry-level library assistance through $79.84 per hour for senior analytics and program management roles. Lac Federal's active GSA labor portfolio carries 72 unique categories priced from $31.23 per hour (Library Assistant I) through $117.42 per hour (Senior IT Project Manager), with education requirements from high school through bachelor's degree and no security clearance requirements.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Central Program Planning Coordination and Support office accounts for 116 awards (63% of award count, $65.7 million combined potential value), followed by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (12 awards, $1.2 million), the Smithsonian Institution (7 awards, $1.3 million), and the National Library of Medicine (5 awards, $1.3 million). When ranked by potential value, the Department of Justice's Justice Management Division dominates (2 awards, $150.1 million combined potential value) through a single $150 million Blanket Purchase Agreement for records information management support services running through September 2033 — this vehicle alone anchors 83% of the vendor's combined potential value across all awards. The USDA ARS relationship comprises a $17.6 million BPA (August 2023 through August 2028) for National Agricultural Library services; Lac Federal places task orders against both vehicles via the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

Lac Federal's primary vehicle infrastructure rests on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, where it holds seat on Federal Supply Schedule GS07F0367N (71 task orders, $40.3 million combined potential value) and the general MAS (69 task orders, $192.4 million combined potential value). The vendor also executes work under an indefinite delivery contract AG32SBC130013 (39 task orders, $3.7 million combined potential value) and agency-specific BPAs. Activity has contracted modestly — 15 awards in 2022 declining to 4 awards in 2026 year-to-date — with only three awards (combined potential value $1.4 million) facing recompete inside the next twenty-four months, indicating a mature, lower-churn customer base. The vendor operates almost exclusively as prime (99% of awards) and subcontracts minimally: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs contribute zero percent of total contractor hours, and named sub relationships are light (three sub awards since 2024 under primes Government Solutions Group, IT1 Source LLC, and Healykohler Design, Inc., supporting USPTO library services, NLM cross-functional initiatives, and NLM digitization work respectively).

Lac Federal is a division of Library Systems & Services, L.L.C., which carries parent-company designation. The parent appears in federal award records as a woman-owned small business; Lac Federal itself competes on full-and-open basis without SBA set-aside designation across its recent prime portfolio, though one legacy 2021 award carried a Total Small Business set-aside. The corporate structure positions Lac Federal as the operating subsidiary of a larger information-services enterprise with established federal library customer relationships spanning the USDA, DOJ, Smithsonian, HHS, and agencies including OSHRC, the National Library of Medicine, the Forest Service, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, and the State Department Foreign Service Institute.