Technical Assistance Partnership Of Arizona

Technical Assistance Partnership Of Arizona (TAPAZ), a Phoenix-based nonprofit organization, operates as a prime recipient on federal grants and contracts focused on suicide prevention, community outreach, workforce development, reentry services, and substance use prevention, with no federal contracting vehicles or IDVs and no subcontracting presence across recent awards.

TAPAZ's customer base concentrates heavily with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (VA VISN 22), which accounts for five awards totaling $14.5 million combined potential value — nearly all of the vendor's contract and grant footprint. The VA VISN 22 awards span suicide prevention and community outreach under the BRIDGE and Clay Hunt Act programs, including a $394,827 purchase order contract ending September 30, 2025, and a $191,664 contract ending April 30, 2025. The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service (three awards) and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance (two awards) round out the customer base. TAPAZ also holds a single $5,000 purchase order from the Bureau of Reclamation, awarded January 23, 2026, with immediate completion, for fiscal sponsorship services.

On the grant side, TAPAZ operates as prime recipient on workforce and community-health programs. The Employment and Training Administration funded a Father Matters Job Training Institute Reentry Program grant (awarded July 1, 2023, completing December 31, 2026) supporting job-readiness training, credential testing, and transitional planning for incarcerated individuals releasing to high-poverty Phoenix, Glendale, Tucson, and Yuma opportunity zones, with enrollment targets of 350 participants across eight Arizona Department of Corrections facilities and local jails. The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) awarded a Drug-Free Communities grant (awarded September 30, 2024, completing September 29, 2029) for youth substance use prevention in South Mountain Village, Phoenix, with TAPAZ serving as fiscal agent to the South Mountain Works Coalition. The Agricultural Marketing Service funded a Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program grant (awarded September 30, 2021, completing September 29, 2024) in partnership with Tigertmountain Foundation to deliver technical assistance and workshops for BIPOC farmers and ranchers in Maricopa County. TAPAZ also serves as sub-recipient under the National Forest Foundation (May 15, 2026) on a watershed restoration project engaging San Carlos Apache members, the Executive Office of State of Arizona (August 1, 2025, and August 1, 2024) on SASP Subgrantee Programs, and Arizona State University (December 11, 2024) on a Legacy Corps for Veterans and Military Families initiative.

Award activity has remained modest and episodic — three awards in 2024, three in 2025, and two in 2026 year-to-date — with combined potential value across all twenty awards (sixteen prime, four sub-recipient) reaching $14.5 million. Service Contract Inventory data shows $2.2 million in invoiced revenue across SCI-reportable contracts in FY2023, with 23 full-time equivalents delivered under a single contract that year; FY2022 and FY2024 SCI records show no activity. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI prime contracts ran at $46.37 per hour across the 10th, median, and 90th percentiles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for roughly 11 percent of total hours, with one named subcontractor reported. TAPAZ operates in the Social Services and Education/Training PSC categories, with the Other Individual and Family Services NAICS predominating across five awards. The vendor competes without set-aside designations on all visible awards.