Institute Of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Inc.

Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Inc., a non-profit technical professional organization headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, operates as a prime contractor providing digital technical library subscriptions, scholarly publications, technical standards access, and conference proceedings to federal agencies on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations. IEEE competes as the sole authorized source for its proprietary IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE/IET Electronic Library, and related technical content, leveraging exclusive copyright to its engineering and technology-related publications across civilian and defense agencies.

IEEE's federal footprint centers on subscription and license services rather than consulting or staffing. Representative recent work includes a $4.22 million delivery order from NASA Shared Services Center through August 2029 for IEEE Electronic Library subscription renewal; a $1.83 million Department of Homeland Security task order through December 2028 for online subscription services under the Library of Congress FEDLINK vehicle; a $1.68 million National Institute of Standards and Technology purchase order through November 2028 for IEEE Electronic Library access; a $4.34 million Air Force Research Laboratory purchase order through December 2029 for IEEE Xplore digital library access at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; and a $1.61 million NASA delivery order through December 2028 for IEEE Electronic Library subscription. Smaller orders span dozens of agencies including the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Veterans Affairs, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Naval Academy, ranging from $4,000 membership purchases to specialized enterprise-level downloads. All awards are full-and-open, firm fixed-price procurements with no small business set-asides.

Customer concentration is moderate and bifurcated by ordering pattern and dollar value. The top five customers by award count account for 28 percent of total awards: the Office of Naval Research (69 awards, $5.1 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (54 awards, $978 thousand), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (42 awards, $554 thousand), Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (38 awards, $5.4 million), and Department of the Army (31 awards, $84 thousand). By potential value, the rankings shift: NASA Shared Services Center leads with 22 awards valued at $13.4 million combined, followed by Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (17 awards, $12.5 million), Army RD&E Command (38 awards, $5.4 million), NIST (15 awards, $5.3 million), and Office of Naval Research (69 awards, $5.1 million). The concentration differential signals that the Navy places numerous smaller orders while NASA and Air Force place fewer but substantially larger subscriptions.

IEEE holds a $45 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Library of Congress FEDLINK program, awarded January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2026, serving as the primary vehicle for multiagency electronic resource distribution. The top five parent vehicles carry 73 task orders combined: the Library of Congress IDC 03310319D0029 (23 task orders, $7.5 million), FEDLINK Information Retrieval Services (22 task orders, $3 million), LC IDC 09D7011 (15 task orders, $3.9 million), LC IDC 03310324D0008 (7 task orders, $7.9 million), and Air Force Materiel Command FA930220D0013 (6 task orders, $278 thousand). These vehicles anchor IEEE's federal distribution architecture, enabling rapid order placement across agencies without repeated full-and-open competitions. IEEE also holds a $473,150 single-award IDIQ contract with Air Force Materiel Command supporting Edwards Air Force Base and other Air Force facilities through 2025.

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years—15 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 23 in 2024, 14 in 2025, and 5 year-to-date in 2026 (as of September 30, 2026)—with combined potential value of $140.4 million across 832 total awards and $64.5 million obligated to date. Nine awards totaling $2.9 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure concentrated among subscription renewals and FEDLINK vehicle task orders. SCI-reported invoicing across 20 prime contracts shows $6.6 million in FY2023, $546 thousand in FY2024, and $4 million in FY2025, with workforce scale of 1.0 FTEs in FY2024 and 0.5 FTEs in FY2025—reflecting the subscription delivery model and the vendor's minimal labor-intensive services footprint in federal work. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts cluster uniformly at $53.52/hr across the 10th, median, and 90th percentiles. IEEE performs all reported work internally with zero subcontractor engagement on SCI-reportable prime contracts; the vendor holds minimal sub awards (3 of 832 total awards) to Nakupuna Solutions LLC and UT-Battelle LLC for enterprise-level IEEE service delivery under directed 8(a) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory management contracts. The non-profit organization competes strictly as a prime on full-and-open opportunities, with no set-aside program participation, and operates as a content provider rather than a systems integrator, eliminating teaming leverage for federal contractors seeking partnership on service contracts.