The Event Planning Group LLC

The Event Planning Group LLC, doing business as JDC Events, is a certified Woman-Owned Small Business and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, that delivers federal event planning, conference coordination, and logistics support services as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) across 33 federal agencies. The vendor competes predominantly under Woman-Owned Small Business set-asides and unrestricted competition on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

JDC Events operates across a narrow but deep capability footprint: conference planning, meeting coordination, venue selection, travel logistics, webinar and workshop management, hybrid meeting support, and administrative event coordination. The vendor's portfolio splits between small tactical events and multi-year program support. Representative recent work includes a $2.1 million Delivery Order with the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (awarded February 2025, completion September 2029) for planning and executing BIS's annual export controls and policy conference; a $301,391 BPA call from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (awarded November 2025, completion November 2026) for comprehensive event planning in Silver Spring, Maryland; a $249,758 Delivery Order with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (awarded December 2024, completion December 2029) for planning hybrid Board of Stewards Committee meetings; and a $448,161 Delivery Order with the National Institute on Aging (awarded July 2024, completion May 2025) for logistics support to the Butler-Williams Scholars Program. The vendor also held a $1.34 million Delivery Order with the International Development Finance Corporation for event management services from April 2022 through May 2025 (now closed). GSA Schedule labor categories span logistics specialist through project director roles at $63–$191 per hour, all bachelor's-level, no security clearance required.

Customer concentration sits heavily with civilian agencies. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 65% of all awards, led by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (47 awards, $3.9 million combined potential value), the Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration (39 awards, $6.1 million), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (16 awards, $5.5 million), the Institute of Education Sciences (12 awards, $4.8 million), and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (9 awards, $743 thousand). When ranked by potential dollar value, the concentration shifts slightly: the Department of Commerce Office of the Secretary anchors the ranking (8 awards, $11.2 million combined potential value), followed by FDA, the Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (4 awards, $5.5 million), AHRQ, and the Bureau of Industry and Security (3 awards, $5.3 million). NTIA places the most orders by count but trails in dollar value; the Secretary's office and BIS carry larger individual ceiling values.

JDC Events holds four active Blanket Purchase Agreements and participates in the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The largest active IDVs are a $9.9 million single-award WOSB-set-aside BPA with the Office of the Secretary (awarded September 2024, completion September 2029), a $10 million multiple-award BPA with the Air Force Air Mobility Command (awarded October 2023, completion October 2028), a $3 million total-small-business-set-aside BPA with the Bureau of Economic Analysis (awarded December 2022, completion November 2027), and a $999,995 multiple-award BPA with the Massachusetts National Guard (awarded March 2025, completion February 2029). The GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries 82 task orders ($34.7 million combined potential value) and serves as the contracting vehicle for the bulk of awards in the source. The vendor's task-order footprint is distributed and repetitive rather than concentrated on single vehicles — the second and third vehicles by volume carry roughly 39 and 36 task orders respectively, suggesting broad utilization across many agency BPAs rather than anchor concentration.

Award activity has been volatile and is declining. The vendor recorded 19 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 13 in 2024, 8 in 2025, and 3 through August 2026. The source shows 189 total awards with combined potential value of $169.6 million, but only $25.2 million (15% of combined potential) has been obligated — a signal that the vendor is holding large ceiling values with sparse draw. Only four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1.9 million), a modest recompete exposure. NAICS coding is concentrated in Convention and Trade Show Organizers (143 awards), with smaller buckets in Administrative Management and General Management Consulting (23 awards) and Custom Computer Programming Services (12 awards); PSC coding clusters around Support-Management (Public Relations, Logistics Support) and Support-Administrative work.

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows sparse federal service-contract activity: nine prime contracts and one subcontract totaling $1.5 million invoiced across FY2022–FY2024. The SCI footprint reported 1.5 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 0.5 FTEs in FY2023, then recovering to 0.8 FTEs in FY2024 — consistent with the vendor's volatile award trajectory. Government-paid median hourly rates on SCI contracts ran $270.59, with the 10th percentile at $133.62 and the 90th percentile at $328.81, positioning the vendor in the mid-to-premium event-services rate band. The vendor operates as a direct-delivery prime on SCI contracts with zero subcontractor hours share. One sub-award appears in the source: support to Montage Marketing Group for Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services (FICEMS) and National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council (NEMSAC) meeting coordination (awarded September 2022), indicating limited subcontracting exposure or supplier role.

JDC Events has been active in federal contracting since at least 2009 and holds no federal grants (the source confirms "Has Federal Grant Prime Awardees: No"). The vendor competes almost exclusively under Woman-Owned Small Business or Total Small Business set-asides on the GSA Schedule and holds no seats on government-wide contract vehicles outside that Schedule. With two decades of federal event-management tenure, concentrated customer base, narrow capability scope, and declining award volume, JDC Events positions as a specialist prime in tactical and program-level event logistics for civilian agencies rather than a diversified IT or professional-services contractor.

The Event Planning Group provides logistical support for the development of meetings, conferences, trainings, symposiums and special events. We also specialize in building programs in the areas of education, science and health.