Palmer Staffing Services Inc.

Palmer Staffing Services Inc., operating as Palmer Legal Staffing, is a Washington, D.C.-based staffing firm that supplies temporary administrative, paralegal, and professional personnel to federal civilian agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with no SBA set-aside certifications, though it competes on total small business set-asides when available; it holds two Federal Supply Schedule contracts awarded simultaneously in May 2024 — one designated total small business set-aside and one full-and-open — each with a $500,000 ceiling through May 13, 2029.

Palmer Legal Staffing operates through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule as its dominant vehicle, with 95 task orders generating $9.8 million in combined potential value. The vendor's award footprint reflects consistent placement of delivery orders and purchase orders across 38 civilian agencies, concentrated in administrative support, clerical services, and legal staffing. Representative recent work includes a $230.6 million delivery order from the Smithsonian Institution for administrative support services (February 2023, MAS), a $164,033.33 delivery order from the National Endowment for the Arts for temporary administrative staffing at GS-11/Step 6 rates plus 30 percent administrative fee (December 2025, MAS), and a $153.7 million Smithsonian Institution delivery order for Secretary Level III temporary staffing (August 2024, MAS). The vendor also executes recurring purchase orders from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for mail support, inventory support, and temporary administrative services. Recent GSA Schedule labor portfolio rates span from $34.47 per hour for entry-level data entry roles through $129.72 per hour for senior attorney positions, with paralegal and legal assistant labor categories priced between $59.29 and $78.49 per hour.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the GSA Federal Acquisition Service in dollar terms — $10.6 million potential value across 3 awards, primarily the two Federal Supply Schedule vehicles themselves — but by contract count, the Smithsonian Institution (23 awards, $1.8 million), National Human Genome Research Institute (16 awards, $626 thousand), and Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (13 awards, $1.2 million) anchor the portfolio. The two rankings diverge sharply because Palmer's GSA Schedule IDV awards carry high ceiling values but remain available for task orders, while smaller transactional orders populate the Smithsonian and OSHRC relationships. The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard ($2 million, 4 awards) and Department of Labor Office of Inspector General ($1.9 million, 6 awards) round out the top-five dollar customers.

Activity has declined materially. Awards per year dropped from 8 in 2023 to 7 in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 2 in 2026 year-to-date. The vendor faces minimal recompete exposure in the next 24 months — only 3 awards with combined potential value of $333 thousand complete by October 2027. Service Contract Inventory capture is sparse and offers limited insight: the dataset reflects 5 prime records and 16 named-subcontractor records across FY2022–FY2025, but SCI-reportable invoiced revenue from prime contracts is zero, suggesting the vendor's federal staffing delivery occurs predominantly under task orders valued below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or through non-reportable micro-purchases. The vendor does not operate as a subcontractor in the SCI dataset and reports zero average sub-hours share across prime contracts, indicating staffing is delivered directly by Palmer's own personnel rather than through sub-engagement.

The two simultaneous Federal Supply Schedule awards in May 2024 represent Palmer Legal Staffing's most recent infrastructure win and signal repositioning toward broader agency ordering. The $500,000 ceiling on each contract reflects the firm's small-business footprint, and ordering patterns to date — with task orders clustering on administrative and legal staffing categories — are consistent with the vendor's historical service delivery model across Washington, D.C. federal civilian offices.