Priority One Services, Inc.

Priority One Services, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor providing laboratory animal research support services — including animal husbandry, vivarium management, veterinary technical services, and facility operations — exclusively to federal research agencies on a full-and-open basis, without set-aside designations.

Priority One's customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Health and Human Services research portfolio. The top five customer organizations account for 59% of award count and 43% of combined potential value, led by NIH's Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (125 awards, $467.4 million combined potential value), NIH's Office of the Director (122 awards, $264 million), and the Food and Drug Administration (48 awards, $141.2 million). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Acquisition Services (20 awards, $108.7 million) and CDC Pittsburgh (3 awards, $56.2 million) round out the active set. This concentration reflects Priority One's specialization in federal biomedical and pharmaceutical research infrastructure rather than geographic or mission diversification.

Priority One holds prime positions on five major parent vehicles. The NIH Laboratory Animal Research Support (LARC IV) IDIQ carries 105 task orders worth $239.4 million in combined potential value and serves as the backbone of Priority One's NIH work across multiple institutes and centers — recent delivery orders include $67.2 million for Building 49 Central Animal Facility animal care and technical services at the National Eye Institute (awarded March 2026, running through February 2031), $20.9 million for animal care and research support at NICHD's Central Animal Facility in Franconia, Virginia (January 2026, through January 2031), and $43.8 million for Division of Veterinary Resources animal care and research support at the Central Animal Facility in Franconia (January 2026, through December 2026). Priority One also holds a $25 million FDA Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity contract for animal husbandry services and vivarium management at the White Oak Animal Program in Silver Spring, Maryland (awarded March 2023, through March 2028), under which seven delivery orders totaling approximately $18.7 million have been issued through December 2025 for administrative support, veterinary technical services, animal care and vivarium management, and temporary animal care and housing. Three additional Indefinite-Delivery contracts (HHSN263200300025I, HHSN263201300014I, and HHSN263200800007I) account for 363 task orders and $571.3 million in combined potential value.

Recent award activity shows a marked decline. Priority One received 15 awards in 2022, declining to 4 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 3 so far in 2026. Six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $56.8 million and face recompete risk in that window. Across the full 837-award portfolio since 1987, the combined potential value stands at $2.42 billion against $655.6 million obligated (27% of potential value), reflecting the indefinite-delivery structure that dominates Priority One's work.

Priority One's capability portfolio is concentrated in facilities support services (348 awards) and veterinary services (162 awards) within the federal research infrastructure space. SCI-reported invoicing of $29.8 million across FY2022–FY2024 reflects a partial view of Priority One's federal services activity above the $150,000 threshold. The FY2023 spike to $18.3 million across 1,653 FTEs represents a substantial workforce deployment, with government-paid hourly rates running a median of $39.12/hr (10th percentile $34.39/hr, 90th percentile $50.21/hr), consistent with animal care technician and facility operations labor markets. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average 3% share of total contractor hours, with 22 named subs reported, indicating Priority One builds its own delivery teams rather than operating as a subcontractor feeder or leveraging sub-heavy execution models.

Priority One competes entirely as a prime contractor — 100% of recent awards are prime awards — and has served 38 distinct customer agencies across HHS research institutions, CDC, and subordinate NIH components since 1987. The vendor's footprint is concentrated in animal research infrastructure support work at federal biomedical research facilities, particularly Building 49 Central Animal Facility in Bethesda and Franconia, Virginia and the FDA's White Oak Animal Program, with secondary work at CDC facilities in Fort Collins, Colorado.

LOCAL AND SUBURBAN TRANSIT (PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION, SHUTTLE SERVICE), LOCAL TRUCKING WITH AND WITHOUT STORAGE, COURIER SERVICES AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT.