Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc.

Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc., doing business as Technical Assistance, is a Boston-based nonprofit providing technical assistance, strategic planning, capacity building, and consulting services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards) on full-and-open federal contracts and grants, with no set-aside designations. TAC operates across homelessness, housing, disability rights, behavioral health, and veteran services domains, with particular depth in program implementation guidance and organizational capacity building for federal grantees and service providers.

TAC's federal customer base concentrates heavily on Housing and Urban Development. The top five funding entities by award count account for 85% of recent awards, with HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development anchoring 47 awards and HUD's Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research holding 7 awards. The Department of Veterans Affairs split across multiple sub-agencies ranks second in combined potential value: the VA (6 awards, $49 million combined potential value), VA Headquarters (10 awards, $12.9 million), and VA Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick (2 awards, $12.2 million) together represent a $62.1 million concentration. The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division contributes 12 awards ($422 thousand combined potential value) for litigative consultant services on police reform oversight and disability rights litigation. The rankings diverge meaningfully: HUD leads on award volume, while the VA dominates on potential dollar value.

TAC holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs (IDC 36C24523D0097, $9.6 million ceiling through May 2028) supporting the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program with delivery orders for technical assistance and strategic planning; 3 task orders carry $29.6 million in combined potential value. Recent representative prime work includes a $9.997 million VA IDC (zero-dollar modification June 2025, realigning CLIN dollars through May 2026), a $9.7 million VA definitive contract for HPO technical assistance and strategic planning (April 2023 through September 2027, self-performed across 2.1 to 4.7 FTEs annually with median government-paid rates of $354/hr), and multiple HUD cooperative agreements under the Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building program (CFDA 14.259) including a $500 thousand award (July 2025 through September 2028) and a $250 thousand award (March 2026 through September 2029) for capacity building services to HUD grantees, subgrantees, and public housing authorities. TAC also receives Department of Justice Civil Rights Division purchase orders for litigative consultant services in police reform cases (Memphis, Louisville, Colorado nursing homes, Kentucky mental health systems) at sub-$200 thousand values.

As a grant recipient, TAC received nine cooperative agreements under HUD's Community Compass program through the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development and Policy Development and Research offices, most awarded in 2023 with completion dates extending through 2030, alongside project grants under the Indian Housing Block Grants program (CFDA 14.867, $250 thousand, January 2025 through September 2027). TAC serves as a sub-recipient on eight federal grants, including work under The Johns Hopkins University on lived-experience centered technical assistance strategies, work under The Curators of the University of Missouri on SAMHSA peer recovery support staff certification standards, work under the City of Boston on the Consumer Advisory Council on Ending Homelessness (BACHome), and work under the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services on Assertive Community Treatment chart review processes.

Award activity has been variable. TAC received 6 awards in 2022, peaked at 17 in 2023, declined to 10 in 2024, and fell to 7 in 2025; the first three months of 2026 show 3 awards. Combined potential value across all 96 awards stands at $80.7 million, though obligations ($96.1 million, 119% of potential value) reflect prior-year drawdown of multi-year vehicles. Eleven awards with combined potential value of $19.3 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold captures a $6.8 million subset across fiscal years 2023–2024 (FY2022 shows zero). FY2023 invoicing reached $3.3 million across 4.4 FTEs; FY2024 invoicing climbed to $3.5 million across 4.7 FTEs. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, TAC performed zero percent of hours through subcontractors, indicating fully self-performed delivery. Government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts ran a median of $354/hr, with rates spanning $313/hr at the 10th percentile through $406/hr at the 90th percentile, consistent with senior consulting labor in compliance and program management.

TAC's NAICS concentration centers on 541712 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, 17 awards) and 541999 (All Other Legal Services, 9 awards), with PSC codes split between Support—Professional: Program Management/Support (15 awards) and Support—Professional: Legal (11 awards). The organization operates as a prime on 87 of 96 awards and subcontracts on 9 awards primarily to state and local grant-issuing partners (City of Boston, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, University of Missouri, Johns Hopkins University, Policy Research Inc.).