Vaughn, Michael D

Vaughn, Michael D, doing business as M David Vaughn, is a sole proprietorship based in Clarksville, Maryland, providing arbitration services and dispute resolution expertise to federal agencies as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations. Vaughn operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards) with no subcontracting footprint, competing across 228 federal awards spanning three decades and 30 customer agencies.

Vaughn's capability portfolio centers on arbitration services for labor and employment disputes, grievance resolution, and collective bargaining agreement matters, supported by instructor training services. Recent representative work includes a $250,000 single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Defense Education Activity running through December 2028 for arbitration services; a $26,600 total small business purchase order from DoDEA for arbitration services completed July 2025; a $15,704.57 full-and-open purchase order from Department of Homeland Security Headquarters for arbitration research, hearing, and final decision on grievance case GREV202201184, completed September 2024; and a $10,126.40 task order under the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's multiple-award blanket purchase agreement for instructor support services, completed November 2022.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service, which accounts for 103 awards valued at $585 thousand combined potential value and represents 39% of the total award count — the portfolio's largest single customer by significant margin. The National Mediation Board (37 awards, $38 thousand), Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer (18 awards, $95 thousand), DHS Customs and Border Protection (13 awards, $60 thousand), and Department of Defense Education Activity (6 awards, $336 thousand) round out the top five. The IRS dominates both volume and dollar rankings; DoDEA places fewer orders but carries higher per-award value. Across the portfolio, 78% of awards concentrate in these five agencies.

Activity has declined markedly in recent years — from one award in 2022 to three in 2023, then dropping to two in 2024, one in 2025, and one in the first half of 2026. Only one award carrying $14 thousand combined potential value faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure. The combined potential value across all 228 awards totals $1.5 million, with $1.4 million obligated (98% execution rate), suggesting stable small-dollar call patterns against established BPAs rather than growth-trajectory activity. NAICS coding reflects the arbitration and legal services emphasis, with 58 awards under All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, 49 under All Other Legal Services, and 48 under Offices of Lawyers.