Lynne Carbone & Associates Inc.

Lynne Carbone & Associates Inc., a women-owned small business headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, delivers organizational development, strategic planning, and facilitation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and single-award BPAs. The firm competes primarily in full-and-open procurements (90% of awards carry no set-aside designation), though it holds a $9 million Total Small Business set-aside BPA with NOAA that anchors substantial pipeline.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 190 of 230 total awards (83%) and $3.05 billion of the $3.09 billion combined potential value (99%). The remaining customer base includes the National Institutes of Health (6 awards, $4.6 million), the General Services Administration (2 awards, $29 million), the Department of Justice U.S. Marshals Service (4 awards), the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration, and others. This NOAA concentration reflects the vendor's deep specialization in protected-species program facilitation—Take Reduction Team meetings, marine mammal conservation workshops, and strategic planning for NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations dominate the award record.

The vendor's primary vehicle is NOAA's $9 million single-award Total Small Business BPA for Office of Protected Resources meeting facilitation and strategic planning, established September 2022 through September 2027, with 266 task orders valued at $37.4 million combined potential value. Recent BPA calls under this vehicle include a $642,504 call (August 2025) for Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team facilitation through June 2027, a $401,750 call (February 2025) for West Coast Take Reduction Team facilitation on time-and-materials basis through September 2026, and a $174,837 call (January 2025) for False Killer Whale Take Reduction Team meetings through September 2026. The vendor also holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule position with 112 task orders valued at $36.8 million. In September 2024, NOAA renewed a single-award IDC with Lynne Carbone & Associates for NIH Office of Research Services consultation, facilitation, and training support services, ceiling $3.74 million, through August 2025.

Representative prime work illustrates the scope: a $4.07 million definitive contract (August 2026) for ARP HQ strategic planning support (Headquarters); a $647,616 BPA call (July 2024) for NOAA's Commissioned Personnel Center Aviation Accession Program; a $539,758 BPA call (April 2024) for Behavioral Health and Wellness program technical assistance; and a $480,328 BPA call (August 2024) for West Coast Take Reduction Team meeting facilitation and strategic planning.

Activity has contracted in recent years. The vendor received 26 awards in 2023, 18 in 2024, and only 6 each in 2025 and 2026 year-to-date. Six awards (combined potential value $1.1 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $198 thousand in FY2022 and $185 thousand in FY2023; no SCI-reportable invoicing appears in FY2024 or FY2025. SCI workforce shows 0.3 FTEs reported in both FY2022 and FY2023, declining to zero in FY2024–FY2025. This data reflects only service contracts in the SCI-reportable range and excludes the vendor's much larger delivery-order activity; the SCI figures represent a small slice of total federal services volume.

The vendor's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans seven consultant and support categories, with hourly rates from $48.50 per hour (Lead Computer Support, Bachelor's, one year experience) to $428.21 per hour (Executive Consultant, Master's, 15 years experience). The spectrum reflects strategic planning and leadership development delivery: 4th through 1st Associate Consultant roles ($187–$337/hr) cover Bachelor's to Master's credentials with 1–7 years' experience, while Senior and Executive Consultant tiers ($389–$428/hr) target Master's-level staff with 10–15 years' tenure. No security-cleared labor categories are offered.

The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor footprint with no named subcontractors and zero sub-engagement across SCI-reportable contracts. All delivery is performed in-house by the vendor or drawn from its consulting network. Performance locations cluster in Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland, with secondary sites in Berwyn Heights, Maryland, Honolulu, Hawaii, and ad hoc workshop locations supporting NOAA marine conservation initiatives nationwide.

Organization Management and Consulting Services