Venable LLP
Washington, DC
- UEI
- EC44BLNJVM99
- CAGE
- 3MDZ3
- Primary NAICS
- 541110 Offices of Lawyers
- SAM.gov registration
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Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Partnership or Limited Liability Partnership
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 600 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
- Website
- venable.com
- Founded
- 1900
- Employees
- 1K-5K
- Estimated annual revenue
- $500M-$1B
- Industry
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- Consumer Discretionary
- Diversified Consumer Services
- Specialized Consumer Services
- Legal Services
- SIC code
- 73 Business Services
- Profiles
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $0 |
| FY2026 | $1,553,200 |
| FY2025 | -$85,795 |
| FY2024 | $960,251 |
| FY2023 | $832,580 |
Top agencies by obligations
| Rank | Agency | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,553,200 |
Contract vehicles
No active vehicles.
1 expired vehicle
Contract awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
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About the company
Venable LLP, a Washington, D.C.-based law partnership, operates as a prime contractor delivering specialized legal services to federal agencies across mortgage-backed securities regulation, intellectual property, and compliance matters under full-and-open competitive procurement with no set-aside designations. The firm competes exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) and does not subcontract federal work; across its award portfolio, Venable holds 276 federal awards spanning nearly three decades, with a combined potential value of $6.03 billion driven almost entirely by a single indefinite-delivery vehicle.
Venable's customer concentration is extreme and reflects two distinct capability domains. The National Institutes of Health accounts for 155 awards and $4.02 billion combined potential value—79% of awards by count and 67% of combined potential dollars—spanning research administration, grant management, and administrative support across NIH's intramural and extramural programs. That scale sits on a single $5.84 billion indefinite-delivery contract (263020055) carrying 184 task orders. By stark contrast, the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) holds 19 awards and $24 million combined potential value, anchoring Venable's second specialty: legal services for mortgage-backed securities program management, regulation drafting, acknowledgement agreements, issuer liquidity matters, and LIBOR transition support. Recent GNMA awards include an $8.386 million definitive contract (ceiling, awarded December 2026) for acknowledgement agreements and issuer liquidity matters running through December 2031, a $1.643 million sole-source award for MBS legal services (June 2025), and a $1.087 million time-and-materials contract for regulation review, tax law research, trademark management, and litigation support (October 2023). The Department of the Treasury and Army Medical Command round out the active customer set at smaller scale.
Activity has declined sharply in recent years: two awards in 2021, three in 2022, one in 2023, and one each in 2025 and 2026. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1.6 million), limiting near-term recompete exposure. The firm's federal legal services footprint, as captured in the Service Contract Inventory above the $150,000 reporting threshold, shows minimal SCI activity: $934 thousand invoiced across six records between FY2022 and FY2024, with 0.2–0.4 FTEs reported per fiscal year. On SCI-reportable contracts, median government-paid rates ran around $744/hr, with hourly pricing spanning from approximately $650/hr to $745/hr. NAICS 541110 (Offices of Lawyers) and PSC Support-Professional: Legal dominate the category coding. Venable's work reflects specialized government legal counsel capability—research, drafting, regulatory analysis, intellectual property, and litigation support—rather than transactional legal services, with the NIH IDIQ and Ginnie Mae legal portfolio accounting for substantially all of the firm's recent federal activity.
Quick answers
Is Venable LLP registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Venable LLP's SAM.gov registration is active through February 3, 2027.
Which contract vehicles does Venable LLP hold?
Venable LLP holds a place on 1 federal contract vehicle: Legal Services for Treasury.
How much has Venable LLP received in federal contracts?
Federal contracts obligated $3,260,236 to Venable LLP in fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
What is Venable LLP's most recent federal award?
Venable LLP's most recent federal contract award is Definitive Contract 86615526C00004, from Government National Mortgage Association, on December 14, 2026.
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