The Event Planning Group LLC

The Event Planning Group LLC, doing business as JDC Events, a woman-owned small business headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, delivers federal event planning, conference coordination, and logistics support services to civilian agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and set-aside vehicles. The vendor is certified as a Woman-Owned Small Business, Black American-owned, and self-certified small disadvantaged business, competing predominantly under WOSB set-asides on a portion of its portfolio and full-and-open on the remainder.

JDC Events' customer concentration spreads across civilian agencies, though with material fragmentation. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 64% of recent awards, led by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (47 awards, $3.9 million combined potential value), the FDA (39 awards, $6.1 million), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (16 awards, $5.5 million), with the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute rounding out the set. By potential value, the Department of Commerce Office of the Secretary anchors the top position ($11.2 million across 8 awards), followed by the FDA ($6.1 million) and NHTSA and AHRQ (both $5.5 million). Activity was heaviest in 2022 (19 awards) and has moderated to six awards in 2026 year-to-date, with four awards totaling $1.8 million in combined potential value reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and facing recompete. The vendor's primary NAICS code is Convention and Trade Show Organizers (146 awards), with subordinate work in Administrative Management and General Management Consulting and Custom Computer Programming.

JDC Events holds four primary parent vehicles: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (88 task orders, $40.4 million combined potential value), the Federal Supply Schedule GS07F0511V (39 task orders, $6 million), a Blanket Purchase Agreement under GS07F0511V (36 task orders, $3 million), and The Professional Services Schedule (23 task orders, $5.4 million). Two larger single-award IDVs anchor significant capacity: a $9.9 million Woman-Owned Small Business set-aside BPA with the Department of Commerce Office of the Secretary (awarded September 20, 2024, running through September 19, 2029), which has already generated multiple task orders including a $1.476 million order from the Office of the Secretary for event planning and a $2.123 million delivery order from the Bureau of Industry and Security for an annual conference on export controls and policy; and a $10 million multiple-award Air Mobility Command BPA (awarded October 5, 2023, through October 4, 2028) for event planning and coordination services. A $3 million total-small-business BPA with the Bureau of Economic Analysis (awarded December 1, 2022, running through November 30, 2027) and a $999,995 BPA with the Massachusetts National Guard (awarded March 1, 2025, through February 28, 2029) complete the vehicle suite.

Recent representative work includes a $1.5 million BPA call from the USPTO for G20 Ministerial Summit support (awarded August 10, 2026, completion September 19, 2026), a $249,758 delivery order from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for hybrid Board of Stewards Committee meeting planning (awarded December 16, 2024, running through December 15, 2029) under a Total Small Business set-aside, a $210,143 NIH Clinical Center BPA call for Medical Research Scholars Program event planning (awarded January 25, 2025, completion January 24, 2026), and a $1.357 million delivery order from AHRQ for U.S. Preventive Services Task Force meeting support (awarded January 31, 2022, running through January 30, 2027) with a $257,767 option-period exercise on a Total Small Business set-aside. The vendor competes across both WOSB and Total Small Business set-asides as well as full-and-open positions, indicating a mixed posture rather than reliance on any single set-aside category.

Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, JDC Events invoiced $1.5 million cumulatively from FY2022 through FY2024 ($983 thousand in FY2022, $257 thousand in FY2023, and $271 thousand in FY2024), with roughly 0.5 to 1.5 FTEs delivered annually. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reported work ran from a 10th percentile of $133.62 per hour to a median of $270.59 per hour and a 90th percentile of $328.81 per hour. GSA Schedule labor categories span logistics specialist, project manager, facilitator, subject matter expert, and project director roles, with rates ranging from $63.02 per hour (Logistics Specialist) through $191.43 per hour (Project Director), all bachelor's-level education and no security-clearance positions. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performed all work with zero subcontractor engagement. As a subcontractor, JDC Events performed meeting planning and logistics support work for Montage Marketing Group on a federal interagency committee support contract under the Department of Health and Human Services (awarded September 30, 2022).

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.