Mid Cities Barber College

Mid Cities Barber College, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business and sole proprietorship based in Grand Prairie, Texas, delivers barber program instructor services to the federal correctional system as a prime contractor under a single-award indefinite delivery contract issued by the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Fort Worth. The vendor operates entirely on the prime side (100% of awards) with no subcontractor footprint, competing under a total small business set-aside on its parent vehicle.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily concentrated on the Bureau of Prisons. The top two funding agencies account for 100% of recent awards: the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Fort Worth (20 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value) and the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education (3 awards). The Bureau of Prisons dominates the portfolio across both award count and dollar value, reflecting the vendor's primary mission of providing vocational barber training to incarcerated individuals.

Mid Cities Barber College holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract (15BFA023D00000022) valued at $490,000 over five years, awarded June 1, 2023, and expiring May 31, 2027, under which the Federal Correctional Institution Fort Worth has issued 19 task orders totaling $629 thousand in combined potential value. The underlying IDC is set aside for total small businesses and contemplates approximately 1,000 instructional sessions annually at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth. Representative delivery orders include a $390,233.20 order issued June 1, 2026, for barber program instructor services through September 30, 2026; a $41,846 order issued June 1, 2025, covering June through September 2025; and monthly task orders ranging from $2,256 to $41,846 consistently issued since contract award. All work is performed directly by the prime with no identified subcontractors, on a firm fixed-price basis, with performance locations at Grand Prairie and Forest Hill, Texas. The vendor's capability portfolio is highly specialized: vocational barber training and instructor services supporting the Bureau of Prisons' rehabilitation and employment-preparation mission for the incarcerated population. Activity shows one award in 2021, six in 2023, eleven in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026, reflecting the monthly task-order cadence under the parent IDC. The source also references a Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund grant received in 2021 for pandemic-related institutional support, establishing secondary participation in federal education funding. Top NAICS and PSC designations are 6117 (Cosmetology and Barber Schools) and Education/Training - Vocational/Technical, respectively.