National Organization For Victim Assistance, Inc.

National Organization For Victim Assistance, Inc., a tax-exempt non-profit based in Alexandria, Virginia, operates as a federal contract and grant recipient delivering victim advocacy training, credentialing, and crisis response services to civilian federal agencies, primarily as a prime contractor (84% of recent awards).

NOVA's capability portfolio centers on professional development and training for victim advocates, sexual assault responders, and crisis management personnel. The organization delivers concrete services including design and administration of specialized certification programs, development of training curricula, facilitation of peer-learning convenings, and technical assistance to state and local grantees. Representative prime contract work includes a $5.248 million firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Defense Human Resources Activity on March 27, 2025 (sole source), to administer the Defense Sexual Assault Advocate Certification Program (D-SAACP) through March 26, 2030, covering application management, review boards, curriculum development, and web-based certification system maintenance; a $326,465 contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded September 1, 2026, for victim advocate liaison training and credentialing services across nine geographic regions; and a $241,356 U.S. Coast Guard contract for National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP) credentials running through July 31, 2027.

NOVA's customer concentration shows the Defense Human Resources Activity dominating by dollar value ($17.4 million across five awards), while the U.S. Coast Guard leads by award count (12 awards, $531 thousand combined potential value). The Office on Violence Against Women accounts for nine awards, primarily cooperative agreements under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526), covering training and technical assistance for military-connected victims, campus coordinated community response teams, and culturally specific campus programming. NOAA contributes four awards totaling $1 million. These five customer agencies account for 100% of the combined potential value across the vendor's portfolio.

Recent grant activity focuses on the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative. NOVA received two $500,000 and $425,000 cooperative agreements respectively on August 1, 2026, to develop resources and provide training on military-connected victim services (extending through July 31, 2028) and campus coordinated community response team implementation for higher education institutions. An October 1, 2023 cooperative agreement under the same initiative supports training on culturally specific communities on campus, running through March 31, 2026. NOVA also received an October 1, 2022 cooperative agreement from the Office of Victims of Crime to launch the Youth Advocate Leadership Corps, a pilot program recruiting 15 college students from marginalized communities for trauma-informed training, credentialing, and fellowships (completed September 30, 2025).

NOVA sits on the HR Solutions Personnel Life Cycle Support Services parent vehicle, with three task orders placed under it. The organization competes exclusively through full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations, reflecting its non-profit structure and the specialized nature of its victim services domain.

Activity has remained modest and relatively flat — four awards in 2022, declining to two in 2023, then averaging four to five awards annually through 2026. Four awards carrying a combined potential value of $568 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. The SCI dataset reports zero invoiced revenue across fiscal years 2022–2025 on NOVA's prime service contracts, indicating that NOVA's reportable federal work either falls below the $150,000 SCI threshold or is structured as grants rather than service contracts; the organization's sub-engagement across SCI-reportable primes averages zero percent of total hours.

NOVA serves as a sub-recipient and subcontractor in a limited footprint. Grant sub-award work includes a December 3, 2024 sub-agreement with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges to provide coordination and logistical support for Campus Program training and technical assistance institutes, and a February 16, 2024 sub-agreement with the Medical University of South Carolina to serve as liaison and conduct educational sessions bridging emergency managers with victim services counterparts on mass violence preparedness and response. On contract side, NOVA subcontracts to Magellan Federal, Inc. on Army Family Advocacy Support Services for professional training development and facilitation (multiple modifications through July 2025) and to LDSS, Inc. on National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs support work as of November 2025.