National Council For Behavioral Health

National Council For Behavioral Health, doing business as National Council For Mental Wellbeing, is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit that delivers mental health first aid training, workforce development, and technical assistance services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor (76% of recent awards) and subcontractor. The organization competes full-and-open across all federal work; no set-aside categories apply to its awards.

The vendor's federal footprint centers on the Department of Health and Human Services, which accounts for 65% of recent awards across four operating divisions. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) anchors the dollar concentration, with 16 awards carrying $77.4 million in combined potential value — notably larger than volume share. The Indian Health Service placed 22 awards worth $832 thousand combined potential value, reflecting high-frequency, lower-dollar training orders. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention round out the HHS footprint. Across 25 distinct customer agencies, the vendor serves the Indian Health Service, SAMHSA, and the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources as top volume customers and SAMHSA, Health Resources and Services Administration, and GSA Federal Acquisition Service as top dollar customers.

The vendor holds a multi-year SAMHSA Indefinite Delivery vehicle (Domain 5L) and recently secured a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (ceiling $6 million, expiring July 2031) spanning 25 labor categories with rates from $66.40/hr for entry-level Training Specialists to $240.51/hr for doctoral-level Medical Advisors. The Schedule labor portfolio supports training delivery, curriculum development, workforce capacity building, and behavioral health consulting. Representative recent prime work includes a $17.3 million delivery order from SAMHSA issued September 2026 for the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics Technical Assistance Center (CCBHC-TAC), an $11.2 million SAMHSA delivery order for the Serious Mental Illness Training and Technical Assistance Center (SMI-TTAC, cost-plus award fee, through September 2028), and a $6.9 million HRSA cooperative agreement for integrated primary-and-behavioral-health care technical assistance. Recurring work includes mental health first aid instructor certification and trainer-of-trainers services, ranging from $26 thousand to $484 thousand per order. The vendor also holds two active federal grant awards as prime recipient: a SAMHSA-funded National Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions grant (project grant, through September 2029) and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreement on behavioral health workforce capacity building (through July 2029).

Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to thirteen in 2024, with eight awards in 2025 and nine in 2026; the trajectory reflects increasing engagement across SAMHSA and HHS Indian Health Service. Four awards (combined potential value $11.3 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor subcontracts to SAMHSA-funded work under the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, providing technical assistance and training to states on mental health integration and transformation initiatives. Sub-recipient grant work flows through state health departments (Tennessee, Kansas, Indiana, District of Columbia) and national nonprofits (American Academy of Pediatrics, University of Missouri, One World Recovery Network) for mental health first aid trainer instruction and behavioral health systems integration support. Service Contract Inventory data show SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $1.6 million in FY2024 (the only full-year period in the reporting window) across 3.5 FTEs, with government-paid hourly rates (prime contracts) clustering around a median of $193.22/hr, ranging from $155.48/hr at the 10th percentile to $211.25/hr at the 90th percentile.