Lindholm & Associates, Inc.

Lindholm & Associates, Inc., an SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Lusby, Maryland, provides human resources consulting, executive core qualifications support, staffing, position classification, and organizational development services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) and subcontractor on larger modernization programs. The firm operates predominantly under its GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (47QREA23D0003), through which it delivers 18 labor categories spanning HR assistant through senior executive consultant roles at hourly rates from $74.11 to $285.84, with no security-cleared positions offered.

Lindholm & Associates' customer footprint spans 71 distinct federal agencies with acute concentration in civilian HR functions. By award count, the top five customers are Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters (21 awards, $280 thousand combined potential value), Social Security Administration (18 awards, $1 million), Department of State Bureau of Administration (15 awards, $19 million), Department of Labor Office of Inspector General (14 awards, $4.5 million), and Department of Transportation Immediate Office of the Secretary (13 awards, $3.5 million). By dollar concentration, the ranking shifts: Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration leads with 12 awards worth $46.8 million combined potential value, followed by Department of the Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (5 awards, $22.5 million), Department of State (15 awards, $19 million), Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (5 awards, $15.3 million), and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (13 awards, $11.8 million). These five agencies account for 40% of the combined potential value across all awards. The tension between rankings reflects Lindholm's model: high-volume small task orders to VA and SSA for ECQ editing and assessments alongside fewer but larger delivery orders from OIG, NOAA, and CFPB for comprehensive HR support spanning talent acquisition, classification, and organizational development.

The GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicle dominates Lindholm's infrastructure, generating 251 task orders carrying $282.5 million in combined potential value. The firm also holds or participates in Human Resources & Equal Employment Opportunity Services vehicles (115 task orders, $45.5 million potential value), a $10 million Woman-Owned Small Business blanket purchase agreement with the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (awarded February 27, 2026, completion June 24, 2026), a $20 million multiple-award BPA with the Corporation for National and Community Service (awarded April 3, 2023, completion April 2028), single-award BPAs with Social Security Administration ($105,802.65 ceiling), Department of Veterans Affairs ($200 thousand ceiling), and Department of Commerce ($250 thousand and $2 million ceilings), and smaller indefinite delivery vehicles with multiple agencies. Recent representative prime work includes a $4.038 million time-and-materials delivery order from the Office of the Inspector General (awarded August 21, 2024, completion August 25, 2029) for human capital management and talent acquisition under Total Small Business set-aside; a $324 thousand firm fixed-price delivery order from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (awarded September 8, 2025, completion September 8, 2030) for HR support services; a $1.497 million labor-hour BPA call from AmeriCorps (awarded April 26, 2024, completion April 15, 2025) for human capital and staffing support; and a $1.052 million firm fixed-price BPA call from NOAA (awarded September 26, 2022, completion September 25, 2027) for project and program management services.

Lindholm's award activity has contracted in recent years. The source records 302 total prime and sub awards spanning 2000 to September 2026, with peak activity in 2023 (28 awards) declining to 4 awards year-to-date in 2026 as of October 2026. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $286.1 million, with $78 million obligated (27% realization). The recompete cliff shows only $15.8 million in combined potential value across three awards completing within the next twenty-four months — a manageable exposure relative to the portfolio. The distribution of work across customer agencies and vehicle types (overwhelmingly GSA Schedule and small BPAs) insulates Lindholm from single-vehicle dependency but reflects a mature, steady-state position rather than growth trajectory.

On federal service contracts captured in the Service Contract Inventory above the $150,000 reporting threshold, Lindholm reported $11.8 million in invoiced revenue as prime across fiscal years 2022–2025: $3.1 million in FY2022 (13.3 FTEs), $3.5 million in FY2023 (15.2 FTEs), $3 million in FY2024 (8.8 FTEs), and $2.2 million in FY2025 (9.5 FTEs). This SCI-reportable revenue represents only the subset of Lindholm's federal services activity above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, micro-purchases, and non-federal work. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-captured prime contracts run with median around $128.47/hr and range from $95.44/hr at the 10th percentile to $197.39/hr at the 90th percentile, reflecting the full-spectrum pricing posture in the GSA Schedule portfolio. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Lindholm self-performs approximately 95% of hours, naming an average of 8 subcontractors and maintaining minimal sub-engagement (5% average sub-hours share). This posture signals delivery-team building rather than a feeder role, though the firm does subcontract to larger primes: Accenture Federal Services has engaged Lindholm for background-investigation support, workforce augmentation, and project management services since 2023; Savvee Inc. and LDSS, Inc. have engaged Lindholm for administrative and workforce augmentation services in 2025–2026.

Lindholm's competitive posture is split between Woman-Owned Small Business set-asides (prominent on recent BPAs and the OHR $10 million WOSB BPA awarded February 2026) and full-and-open competition (the majority of GSA Schedule delivery orders carry no set-aside). The portfolio's NAICS distribution is heavily concentrated in Human Resources Consulting Services (237 awards) with secondary clusters in Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (21 awards), Employment Placement Agencies (16 awards), and Document Preparation Services (9 awards). Primary PSC categories mirror this focus: Support-Professional-Other (71 awards), Support-Professional-Human Resources (70 awards), Support-Management-Other (45 awards), and Support-Professional-Program Management/Support (42 awards). Since 2002, Lindholm has built a stable, narrow-gauge federal HR services franchise anchored to GSA Schedule, BPA vehicles, and WOSB set-asides, with minimal scale in the past three years and no presence in IT modernization, engineering, or defense sectors.

Human resources, management consulting