Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.

Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Lutz, Florida, is a publisher and manufacturer of proprietary psychological assessment instruments sold to the federal government as a prime contractor on purchase orders and delivery orders, competing on full-and-open awards with no set-aside designation across its federal footprint.

PAR holds exclusive publishing and distribution rights to two widely used personality assessment tools — the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) and the NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO PI-3) — that form the core of its federal business. The company delivers psychological testing materials, interpretive reports, cognitive assessment vouchers, answer sheets, technical manuals, and clinical supplies to support personnel evaluation, mental health diagnostics, and operational readiness screening across defense and veteran healthcare agencies. Recent representative awards include a $842,632.50 definitive contract with the VA Strategic Acquisition Center (awarded December 2025, running through December 2030) for intellectual property rights and integration of PAI and NEO PI-3 into the VA's VistA system; a $308,321 purchase order from the Army Human Resources Command (awarded August 2025, running through August 2028) for 3,000 single-use NEO-PI-3 licenses and 1,000 PAI iAdmin licenses with corresponding score reports and technical manuals; and a $250,000 single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with U.S. Special Operations Command (awarded January 2024, running through January 2029) that enables multiple defense and homeland security agencies to procure PAR's assessment products via delivery orders.

PAR's customer concentration is dominated by defense and veteran healthcare agencies. The top five customers by combined potential value account for 57% of the vendor's recent award dollars: the Department of the Army Medical Command leads with 44 awards totaling $6.9 million, followed closely by the Defense Health Agency with 9 awards worth $6.6 million; U.S. Special Operations Command, Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 7, and VA Headquarters round out the set. By award count, Army Medical Command also leads (44 awards), trailed by USSOCOM (30 awards), Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (25 awards), the U.S. Marine Corps (25 awards), and VA VISN 22 (15 awards). The Marine Corps and Naval Special Warfare Command place frequent small purchase orders ($16,600–$20,250 range) for PAI/PAI Plus interpretive reports; these repeat transactions across multiple fiscal years signal stable, recurring demand for PAR's core assessment products.

PAR holds its principal vehicle position through the $250,000 USSOCOM IDC (H9224024D0011), which has generated five task orders totaling $159,000 in combined potential value as of mid-2025, including a $32,737.50 delivery order in January 2024 and a $27,781.90 order to Naval Special Warfare Command in June 2025. The vendor also receives task orders under smaller VA IDCs, including VA11916D0003 and VA247P1597, which have generated six task orders each. This vehicle posture reflects PAR's status as a sole-source supplier of its proprietary assessment instruments — agencies negotiate delivery orders against standing IDC ceilings rather than compete new procurements.

Activity has remained modest and stable. The vendor received 10 awards in 2024 and 10 in 2025 (with only 2 awards recorded through early July 2026 in the source snapshot). Combined potential value across all 1,766 prime awards in the source dataset is $28.4 million, with $6.6 million obligated to date (23% of potential value). The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months carries $450,000 in combined potential value across three awards — the VA VistA integration contract (ultimate completion December 2030) and other routine purchase orders represent moderate recompete exposure. SCI-reportable invoicing totaled $118,000 across four prime records spanning FY2023 and FY2024 ($50,000 in FY2023, $69,000 in FY2024), with zero FTEs reported — a reflection of PAR's product-and-licensing business model rather than labor-intensive service delivery.

PAR operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of awards); the source records no subcontract activity. The vendor's NAICS footprint spans 513130 (Book Publishers), 511210 (Software Publishers), and 332994 (All Other Publishers), reflecting its role as a publisher of assessment materials and digital licensing platforms. Federal procurement classification runs predominantly under PSC 7610 (Books and Pamphlets, 354 awards), PSC 6545 (Medical and Surgical Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies, 261 awards), and PSC 5999 (Miscellaneous Items, 305 awards) — a mix that captures both paper assessment forms and diagnostic test kits. PAR's business model centers on leveraging proprietary intellectual property rather than competing on service delivery or staffing; sole-source or competitive sole-source awards dominate because the vendor is the exclusive licensor of PAI and NEO PI-3 to federal buyers. This posture creates defensible customer stickiness but also constrains addressable market to agencies that adopt these specific instruments.

PAR publishes instruments that address the needs of professionals in psychology/related fields - focusing on personality and counseling, neuropsychological evaluation, forensic, intelligence and achievement measurement, and career development.