LPE Associates, LLC

LPE Associates, LLC, an SBA 8(a)-certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) and minority-owned firm based in Silver Spring, Maryland, delivers federal grant administration, logistics coordination, and event-management support to civilian agencies as a prime contractor on 91% of recent awards. The company holds concurrent designations as a Black American-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, and a DOT-certified disadvantaged business enterprise. LPE Associates operates two subsidiaries, LPE Strategy LLC and Lpe-Strategies LLC, which carry identical SBA and ownership designations and function as service-delivery arms within the parent corporate structure.

The vendor's customer concentration reflects a narrow civilian-agency focus anchored to Department of Education grant-administration work. The top five customers account for 82% of recent awards by count and 93% of combined potential value. The Department of Agriculture Office of Procurement and Property Management dominates the potential-value ranking with a single $20 million Blanket Purchase Agreement for special events and conference support services through May 2031, while the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education places three awards worth $12.9 million combined for grant-review, administration, and mentoring support. The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education has issued eight awards ($3.2 million combined) for logistical and administrative support across FY 2025–2027 FIPSE, McNair, and GAANN grant competitions. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) anchors $8.6 million in potential value across an indefinite delivery contract and a time-and-materials delivery order for Center for Substance Abuse Prevention logistics and planning support. Notably, the Department of Agriculture's single $20 million BPA skews the potential-value rankings away from the Department of Education's dominant award-count position; without it, Education offices would represent 60% of combined potential value.

LPE Associates' concrete capability portfolio centers on federal grant-competition administration, peer-review logistics, technical assistance program management, and event coordination. Representative prime work includes a $3.13 million firm-fixed-price delivery order from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (awarded September 2026, completion September 2031) for ongoing mentoring, training, and guidance to grant recipients across project management and implementation; a $6.71 million Competitive 8(a) delivery order from the same office (also September 2026, completion September 2031) for grant-review administration and analysis; an $8.58 million time-and-materials delivery order from SAMHSA (awarded September 2023, completion September 2028) for CSAP logistics, assistance, and planning support under the SAMHSA IDIQ Domain 6A contract; and a $3.31 million firm-fixed-price arts-in-education technical-assistance contract from the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (awarded September 2022, completion September 2027). The company also delivers peer-review services for grant competitions under sole-source 8(a) purchase orders ranging from approximately $27,000 to $392,000 across FIPSE, McNair, GAANN, Talent Search, and other Education grant programs.

LPE Associates' vehicle position centers on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, where it holds a Federal Supply Schedule contract (through June 2027) and has generated seven task orders worth $33.2 million in combined potential value since 2022. The labor portfolio on the GSA Schedule spans seven categories from Administrative Associate at $57.62 per hour (high school education, no experience required, no security clearance) through Senior Subject Matter Expert at $239.86 per hour (bachelor's degree, fifteen years' experience, no clearance). All labor categories are positioned for federal grant administration and logistics support; no security-cleared positions are offered. Additionally, LPE Associates holds a $20 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of Agriculture under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule for special events and conference support through 2031, an indefinite delivery contract with SAMHSA (IDIQ Domain 6A, valued at $1,000 as the IDC ceiling but supporting an $8.6 million delivery order), and a second single-award BPA with the Department of Education for unspecified services.

Activity has accelerated in recent years. Awards per year climbed from three in 2022 to five in both 2024 and 2025, reaching seven by 2026. Six awards (combined potential value $15.2 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting near-term recompete exposure, particularly among the smaller Department of Education purchase orders ($118,000 to $392,000 range) and the $1.53 million FIPSE peer-review definitive contract. The combined potential value across all twenty-two awards stands at $53.2 million, with $20.4 million obligated to date (38% utilization). SCI-reported invoicing for FY2024 totaled $2.3 million across 7.6 full-time equivalents, with government-paid rates clustering around a median of $166.39 per hour and ranging from $113.16 to $179.34 per hour across the tenth to ninetieth percentile — an administrative-labor-cost profile consistent with the vendor's grant-administration and logistics-coordination mission. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 12% of total contractor hours, with three named subcontractors appearing in the dataset; LPE Associates thus maintains control of most delivery activity internally.

In its limited subcontractor role, LPE Associates has delivered operations and meeting-logistics support to prime contractors on federal boards and committees. The company subcontracted to Kimberly Kuehl and Deborah Seibel on OPTN (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network) board-support tasks, providing meeting-logistics coordination, virtual-meeting support, and in-person venue and IT consultation. These sub awards reflect the vendor's operational and event-coordination capability in a secondary role rather than its primary grant-administration positioning.

LPE Associates (LPE) is a minority veteran-owned small business providing professional management service expertise throughout the public, private and non-profit sectors. We provide technical assistance, conference planning, communications, training, peer and grant review, and research and evaluation, workforce development, apprenticeship support, administrative support, and technology services.