Neighborhood Development Services

Neighborhood Development Services, doing business as NDS, is a nonprofit community development corporation based in Ravenna, Ohio, that receives federal grants (not contracts) for rural housing rehabilitation and preservation services, operating as a prime grant recipient across the Department of Agriculture and a small number of other federal agencies. NDS operates exclusively in the grant-recipient role rather than as a federal contractor; it holds no federal contract vehicles and has not pursued prime federal contract awards.

NDS's federal activity centers on rural housing preservation and community development. The vendor acts as prime recipient on grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service under the Rural Housing Preservation Grants program (CFDA 10.433), funding housing rehabilitation and repair services for very low- and low-income rural residents in Ohio. The most recent award, a $154,759 project grant dated July 20, 2025, runs through August 20, 2026 and supports substandard housing repairs, accessibility modifications, and living environment improvements. An earlier $154,759 USDA Rural Housing Preservation grant was obligated July 24, 2021 and completed September 24, 2022. NDS also appears on two federal grant sub-awards: Community Development Block Grants/Entitlement Grants (January 1, 2023) and a Minor Home Rehabilitation Program award (March 25, 2022), suggesting exposure to local Community Development Block Grant pass-through and smaller home repair initiatives.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to USDA Rural Housing Service programs. Of 22 total federal awards in the source data (spanning 2007 to 2025), the Department of Agriculture accounts for 16 awards across three USDA components — the Rural Housing Service itself (9 awards), the Rural Housing Service Washington Office Rural Business Cooperative Services (4 awards), and the Single Family Housing Program (3 awards) — covering 86% of award volume. The Department of the Treasury holds 2 awards, and the Agricultural Marketing Service holds 1. Combined dollars obligated across all awards totals $1.6 million, reflecting the typical scale of rural housing preservation grants. Activity is sporadic: one award each in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, with one award in 2025. Only one award has an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months.

NDS maintains a named subsidiary, GB Hawk Construction LLC, a nonprofit entity, though the source does not detail its role or capability contribution. The vendor's grant work is grounded in rural Ohio housing rehabilitation and community development, with no presence in federal contracting, commercial IT, defense, or other federal contracting domains.