National Safety Council

National Safety Council, a nonprofit safety education organization based in Itasca, Illinois, operates as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) and occasional subcontractor to federal agencies, delivering safety training, defensive driving courses, CPR and first aid instruction, workplace safety surveys, and educational materials across civilian and defense customers on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside participation. NSC competes predominantly through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and agency-specific indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements, holding seats on the Federal Supply Schedule GS10F0160N and GS01S07805 and a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Military Sealift Command valued at $298,163 through September 2029.

NSC's federal customer base is fragmented across 91 distinct agencies, with no single customer dominating the portfolio. The top five customers by award count account for 30% of recent awards, led by the United States Marine Corps (37 awards, $838 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of the Army (23 awards, $6 thousand combined potential value), followed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Naval Military Sealift Command (15 awards, $721 thousand combined potential value), and the Air Force Global Strike Command (10 awards, $289 thousand combined potential value). When ranked by potential value, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Acquisition Services sits first with $1.3 million across 6 awards, followed closely by the Marine Corps and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The dollar-value concentration (11% of combined potential value across the top five by dollars) reflects the vendor's high-volume, lower-dollar transactional posture — most individual awards are purchase orders and delivery orders under $30 thousand.

Recent representative contract work includes a $177,560 three-year defensive driving training and licensing vehicle with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (base period June 2022 through June 2025 with two optional one-year extensions, ultimately completing October 2025), a $109,485 online defensive driving course delivery order under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule through the National Office running through August 2028, a $61,760 online defensive driving training purchase order with the Investigative and Enforcement Services organization, CPR and first aid training supplies delivery orders with the Military Sealift Command under the single-award indefinite delivery contract (two task orders valued at $23,855.08 and $10,428.60, completed November 2024 and December 2025 respectively), and workplace safety culture survey work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NSC also holds membership services contracts with the Department of Homeland Security (online safety and health organization membership services for DHS employees through September 2029, $80,076.00) and the Department of the Army (Learning Research & Development Center Safety Climate Survey, $5,531.00 through March 2026).

Grant work anchors NSC's relationship with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The vendor acts as prime recipient on two cooperative agreements: a Transportation Safety for Children award (September 2022 through September 2027) and a Road to Zero Coalitions support award (September 2021 through September 2026). NSC also functions as a sub-recipient on grant work through the State of Florida Department of Transportation (Our Driving Concern Florida and Child Passenger Safety Diversion Program, both recent), the Ohio Department of Public Safety (General Grant 2025 and 2026 programs), and the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission (Employer Traffic Safety program under the FFY 2025 Highway Safety Plan). A subcontract with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (CENTRE: Community Enhanced Traffic Enforcement) places NSC in task lead for developing training materials and program brochures for law enforcement traffic safety instruction. NSC also subs to Concurrent Technologies Corp on a Department of Defense order recommending improvements to DoD's private motor vehicle safety program and to Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC on management and operating activities at the Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant.

Activity has been lumpy — 9 awards in 2022, declining to 2 in 2023, recovering to 11 in 2024, with 7 awards in 2025 and 1 in 2026. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete pressure in the near term. NSC's award portfolio is heavily weighted toward books, pamphlets, periodicals, training aids, and educational materials (85 awards under the Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools NAICS; 36 awards under Books and Pamphlets PSC; 25 under Newspapers and Periodicals PSC), reflecting the nonprofit's legacy as a publisher and educator rather than a contractor, with the remaining footprint in administrative consulting and other social advocacy services.