Nassau County Vocational Education & Extension Board

Nassau County Vocational Education & Extension Board, doing business as Veeb, is a New York-based non-profit organization that provides specialized maritime firefighting and professional training to federal agencies as a prime contractor, competing on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis without set-aside designations. Headquartered in Hicksville, New York, Veeb operates the Nassau County Fire Service Academy and delivers hands-on shipboard firefighting instruction and advanced practical evolutions training, primarily to the United States Merchant Marine Academy and other federal training pipelines.

Veeb's federal footprint is highly concentrated in maritime training. The Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration accounts for 4 awards valued at $919 thousand in combined potential value (100% of Veeb's contract ceiling), with the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education contributing 2 grant awards and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration VISN 2 placing 1 award for $3 thousand. The Maritime Administration relationship dominates both volume and dollars, with four purchase orders spanning 2023 through 2026 for shipboard firefighting basic and advanced practical evolutions training delivered at the Nassau County Fire Service Academy in Great Neck and Kings Point, New York. Representative contracts include a $260 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from MARAD awarded August 21, 2024, for maritime firefighting training to the Merchant Marine Academy with a June 30, 2026 completion date, and a more recent $273 thousand purchase order awarded July 1, 2026, for one-day, eight-hour on-site training sessions running through June 30, 2028 with one option year. Veeb also received two federal grants from the Department of Education totaling over $1.9 million to assist nursing students affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Award activity is sparse and episodic rather than sustained — one award in 2021, one in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026 — with combined dollars obligated ($2.5 million) exceeding combined potential value ($922 thousand), indicating mature contract performance and option exercises. One award (the most recent $273 thousand MARAD contract) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Veeb operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no documented subcontract footprint.