The Training Connection Inc.

The Training Connection Inc., a women-owned small business headquartered in Woodbridge, Virginia, provides customized mentoring program design, implementation, training delivery, and professional development services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and agency-specific blanket purchase agreements. The company operates entirely as a prime, with no subcontractor engagement across its federal portfolio.

The Training Connection's customer base is highly concentrated in civilian workforce development. The top five customers by potential-value ranking — the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the EPA Office of General Counsel, and the Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer — account for 34 percent of combined potential value. NOAA leads by award count with 26 awards valued at $2.9 million combined potential value, while the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime has placed 23 awards with $548 thousand combined potential value. Across the portfolio, 76 distinct agencies have issued work, but concentration at the top five reflects the vendor's specialization in civilian mentoring programs rather than broad government-wide activity. Recent representative prime work includes a $194.5 million delivery order from the Export-Import Bank for a mentorship program platform (Woman-Owned Small Business set-aside, completion June 2030), a $238.7 million order from the International Trade Commission for a mentoring program (Total Small Business set-aside, completion May 2031), a $206.3 million Department of Justice mentoring program delivery order (Woman-Owned Small Business sole source, completion March 2027), and a $1.024 million Immigration and Customs Enforcement mentorship program order for coaching services (completion September 2027).

The Training Connection's primary vehicle is the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which holds 264 task orders valued at $26 million in combined potential value — 70 percent of the portfolio. The vendor's Federal Supply Schedule contract with GSA, awarded April 27, 2023, carries a $200 thousand ceiling and runs through April 26, 2028. The vendor also holds agency-specific BPAs, including a $1.161 million NOAA mentoring program BPA and a $517 thousand BPA, plus the Professional Services Schedule with 30 task orders valued at $2 million. Award activity shows volatility: fourteen awards in 2022, thirteen in 2023, nine in 2024, three in 2025, and four in 2026. Six awards with combined potential value of $1.6 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore recompete risk.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, The Training Connection invoiced $1.4 million from FY2022 through FY2025 — roughly $178 thousand in FY2022, $251 thousand in FY2023, $480 thousand in FY2024, and $455 thousand in FY2025. The SCI dataset shows the vendor delivered approximately 0.9 FTEs in FY2022, 0.5 FTEs in FY2023, 1.1 FTEs in FY2024, and 0.9 FTEs in FY2025 across prime contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts captured in SCI ran around $207.82/hr median, with senior labor pricing reaching $289/hr. The vendor self-performs all work with zero subcontractor engagement across SCI-reportable prime contracts — a posture consistent with the company's award portfolio, which shows 100 percent prime awards and no sub-awards.

The vendor's service scope concentrates in mentoring program execution: mentoring program design and implementation, mentor and mentee training, mentoring forums, matching services, web-based Mentoring Connection platform delivery, strategic career management training, 360-degree feedback assessments, and program evaluation. Set-aside posture varies by customer and award type: woman-owned small business designations recur across EPA, EXIM, FEMA, FSIS, and DOJ work, while total small business set-asides appear with the International Trade Commission and USDA. The vendor competes under set-asides where applicable and in full-and-open competition with non-federal agencies and agencies that have not designated set-asides. Recent awards show both Woman-Owned Small Business sole-source and competitive award patterns, indicating comfort with both postures. The category concentration is heavily weighted toward Professional and Management Development Training (232 awards across all NAICS), with secondary activity in human resources consulting and educational support services. The company's 385 total awards since 2002 and ongoing task-order activity across 76 agencies position it as an established, if narrowly specialized, federal mentoring services provider with limited growth trajectory and significant recompete exposure in a category where other federal training contractors also operate.

The Training Connection, Inc. (TTC) is dedicated to helping our clients realize the full potential of their employees. Our aim is to help organizations utilize their most valuable in house resource-their employees. With decades of hands-on experience in business, product, and people development, we have helped thousands reap the rewards of maximizing their employees' greatest potential.

We specializes in four vital areas:

Mentoring Solutions - Design and sustain formal and informal mentoring programs; includes TMC platform, DISC assessments, and evaluation tools.

Leadership Development - Custom workshops on communication, emotional intelligence, delegation, DISC, and strategic career management.

Team Building - Build trust, resolve conflict, and boost collaboration through interactive sessions that enhance performance.

Coaching Services - Executive coaching and situational mentoring to support individual development aligned with organizational goals.