Safal Partners LLC

Safal Partners LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Houston, Texas, provides workforce development consulting, apprenticeship program management, and education technical assistance to federal agencies as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards), operating predominantly under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competitions through GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicles and agency IDIQs.

Safal Partners' customer base concentrates heavily on workforce and education agencies. The top five funding organizations by award count account for 68% of recent awards, anchored by the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (14 awards, $110.6 million combined potential value). However, the top-five ranking by potential value reveals material concentration risk: the Department of Education Office of the Chief Financial Officer carries a single $500 million award (one delivery order or IDV) that alone represents 68% of the vendor's combined potential value across all 41 awards. The Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration remains the second-largest customer at $110.6 million across 14 awards, followed by the Department of Labor Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy at $60.1 million (a single BPA), the Department of Education Contracts and Acquisition Management at $16.5 million across two awards, and the Department of Labor Veterans Employment and Training Service at $15.8 million across three awards. The divergence between award-count and potential-value rankings signals that Safal Partners' customer base includes both high-frequency, modest-value task orders and anchor awards of exceptional magnitude.

Safal Partners holds three core vehicle positions. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule anchors 23 task orders valued at $676.2 million in combined potential value, primarily supporting education and workforce development initiatives across multiple agencies. The vendor also sits on the Professional Services Schedule (7 task orders, $25.4 million combined potential value), the Grants Management Support Services BPA (5 task orders, $6.1 million), and One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services - Small Business (1 task order, $3.8 million). Recent prime awards include an $11.998 million definitive contract from the Employment and Training Administration (June 29, 2026) to grow quality registered apprenticeship programs through industry intermediaries, a $863.878 thousand BPA call from the Employment and Training Administration for workforce development consulting under the Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities program (July 8, 2026), and a $5.219 million BPA call from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (September 30, 2024) supporting the National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth. Safal Partners also holds two newly awarded IDVs: a $60.071 million single-award BPA with the Department of Labor Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy effective December 23, 2024, for education, outreach, and analysis services through December 22, 2029, and a seat on the OASIS+ Total Small Business Multiple Award IDIQ (December 19, 2024, through December 18, 2029) with no dollar ceiling specified in the source, covering seven functional domains across the federal government.

The vendor's historical prime portfolio concentrates on administrative management consulting (28 awards), apprenticeship training (4 awards), and engineering services (2 awards), with PSC codes clustering in support-professional program evaluation and development work. Capability work spans registered apprenticeship acceleration in cybersecurity and non-industry-specific sectors, WORKFORCEGPS technical assistance (a $30 million BPA through May 31, 2027), National Veterans Technical Assistance Center services, Registered Apprenticeship Academy training and curriculum delivery, and grants management support for homeless education and education sciences research. Safal Partners also received a $3.5 million cooperative agreement from the Employment and Training Administration (CFDA 17.281, WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Technical Assistance and Training) through March 31, 2025, supporting coordination and technical assistance to states and local areas serving dislocated workers.

Service Contract Inventory data show limited invoiced federal service-contract revenue in the reporting window: $1.4 million across 2.0 FTEs in FY2022, with zero invoiced revenue reported in FY2023 and $0 in FY2024 (0.1 FTEs across prime and sub records). This reflects SCI's limitation to contracts above $150,000 and the vendor's reliance on large IDVs with infrequent or delayed invoicing relative to award date. On GSA Schedule labor, Safal Partners offers 20 unique categories spanning administrative support ($67.63/hr) to principal/partner roles ($361.81/hr), with no security-cleared positions; the midrange consultant and project director roles run $158–$248/hr. Government-paid rates on SCI-reportable work ran a narrow band around $336/hr median (10th percentile $329.54/hr, 90th percentile $342.39/hr), indicating pricing concentrated in senior consulting and management bands.

Subcontractor engagement is minimal. The vendor operates as a prime in 40 of 41 SCI records with zero sub-hours share on average across prime contracts, and sub awards represent only 7% of recent awards. Named sub relationships include technical assistance and training work on Integrated Education and Training (IET) programs in correctional systems under Research Triangle Institute as prime, and digital-literacy technical assistance for adult education under Jobs For The Future Inc. Four awards (combined potential value $36.7 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represent recompete exposure.