Scholastic Inc.

Scholastic Inc., doing business as Scholastic U.S.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scholastic Corporation, is a for-profit publisher and distributor of educational materials that operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) supplying books, magazines, digital learning subscriptions, and educational content to federal agencies. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements without SBA set-aside designations across a portfolio of 967 total awards spanning more than three decades. Scholastic Corporation, the parent entity, holds its own federal contract prime awards and federal grant prime recipient status, operating from headquarters in New York, New York.

Scholastic's federal capability portfolio centers on three concrete service lines: print and periodical materials (school books, classroom magazines, library collections for K-12 institutions), digital learning platforms (BookFlix, FreedomFlix, TrueFlix, ScienceFlix, and DOD Teachables subscriptions), and bulk book orders for educational and cultural programs. Recent representative contracts include a $322,500 purchase order from Air Education and Training Command awarded in September 2024 for DODL Teachables and Flix subscriptions running through September 2028, a $148,435.92 purchase order from the Bureau of Indian Education for library books supporting schools serving Native American communities awarded in September 2023, a $75,667 purchase order from the Department of Defense Education Activity for Scholastic platform subscriptions awarded in September 2022, and a $63,916 purchase order from DOD Education Activity for Library Flix subscription awarded in September 2023. The company also delivers classroom magazines and school books to the Bureau of Indian Education (four named awards in the most recent three years ranging from $10,376 to $49,907 per contract), enterprise-wide BookFlix access to the Bureau of Administration ($24,999 annual contracts awarded repeatedly in September 2024, 2025, and August 2026), and book orders to the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Customer concentration is extreme and heavily weighted to military and defense education. The Department of Defense Education Activity accounts for 645 awards (66% of all awards in the portfolio) carrying $29.1 million in combined potential value, dwarfing all other customers. The Department of State ranks second with 113 awards carrying $1.2 million combined potential value, followed by the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse with four awards carrying $9.2 million combined potential value (mostly grant sub-award activity), the Bureau of Indian Education with ten awards at $400 thousand combined potential value, and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service with two awards at $351 thousand combined potential value. The top five customers by award count represent 83% of all awards; the top five by potential value account for 86% of combined potential value, indicating that DoDEA dominance extends across both frequency and dollars, while NIH's smaller award count carries disproportionate value concentration.

Scholastic operates under five named indefinite delivery vehicles dominating task-order placement. Indefinite Delivery Contract HE125408D0001 carries 218 task orders at $1.5 million combined potential value; Indefinite Delivery Contract HE125407D0012 carries 127 task orders at $1 million combined potential value; Indefinite Delivery Contract MDA41497D0002 carries 116 task orders (value not specified in source); Indefinite Delivery Contract MDA41003D0131 carries 90 task orders at $123 thousand combined potential value; and Indefinite Delivery Contract MDA41003D0121 carries 33 task orders at $6.6 million combined potential value. These vehicles are the primary vehicles through which DoDEA and other federal customers place recurring subscription and supply orders for Scholastic products.

Activity has contracted sharply in the most recent five-year period. The company received three awards in 2022, seven in 2023, six in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026 (through August 2026). The recompete cliff is minimal: only two awards (combined potential value $347 thousand) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The portfolio carries a long historical depth (earliest award dated March 1989) but recent activity flatness suggests potential saturation in the DoDEA subscription market or reduced purchase frequency after sustained growth in the 1990s and 2000s.

Service Contract Inventory reporting covers minimal Scholastic activity. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $611 thousand in FY2022 and zero in FY2023, across 0.5 FTEs in FY2022 and zero FTEs in FY2023; this represents service contract work above the SCI $150,000 reporting threshold and excludes the vast majority of Scholastic's federal goods and product sales. Government-paid hourly rates on the SCI-reportable prime contracts ran a median of $729.27 per hour, with senior labor at the 90th percentile reaching $909.88 per hour, reflecting professional service delivery on a minimal volume. Scholastic does not engage subcontractors on its federal contracts; the portfolio is 100% prime delivery with zero subcontractor hours.

Scholastic's federal customer base spans 41 distinct agencies, but concentration at DoDEA obscures the true scope breadth. Named State Department regional bureaus (Near Eastern Affairs, South and Central Asian Affairs, Western Hemisphere Affairs) place small individual book orders, and the company holds a secondary relationship with the National Institutes of Health on grant sub-award activities tied to pandemic relief (ESSER funding routed through State of Maryland as prime grantee in April 2023). The company operates as a pure supplier model: no teaming relationships, no subcontractors, and no complex service integration — Scholastic furnishes educational products directly to federal schools, libraries, and educational programs.