Wicklander Zulawski & Associates, Inc.

Wicklander Zulawski & Associates, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Aurora, Illinois, delivers investigative interviewing, interview technique, and criminal investigation training to federal law enforcement and diplomatic security agencies as a prime contractor operating exclusively on full-and-open federal contracts without set-aside designation, except where ordering agencies apply a Total Small Business set-aside to individual delivery orders. The firm, established in 1982, holds a seat on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (Professional and Management Development Training, SIN 611430) and has delivered 141 federal awards since 2002, generating $7 million in combined potential value with $4.3 million obligated to date (62% realization rate).

Wicklander Zulawski's customer concentration centers on two federal buyers. The Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security anchors 24 awards ($1.5 million combined potential value) and represents the vendor's largest customer by award count, while the Department of Homeland Security US Citizen and Immigration Services places the second-largest volume (12 awards) but carries higher potential value ($1.9 million), reflecting different ordering patterns — State places frequent smaller training delivery orders while USCIS spreads its dollars across fewer, larger orders. Together, these two agencies account for 36 of 141 awards (26% of volume) and $3.4 million (49% of potential value). The Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Department of Homeland Security Federal Law Enforcement Training Center round out the active set. Across 27 distinct customer agencies, the top five account for 39% of all awards and 63% of combined potential value.

Wicklander Zulawski operates primarily from the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, where 79 task orders carry $5.1 million in combined potential value under a contract awarded June 20, 2024, with a $500,000 ceiling and performance period through June 19, 2029. The vendor also maintains a presence on the Professional Services Schedule (9 task orders, $373 thousand). Recent representative work includes a $13,860.89 delivery order from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security for federal investigative training (April 2026), a $13,586.89 delivery order for Foreign Service National Investigators training (July 2025, Total Small Business set-aside), and a $30,290.00 purchase order from the Bureau of Consular Affairs for non-confrontational investigative interviewing techniques training delivered in Bangladesh (July 2026). Course offerings span Investigative Interviewing Techniques, Death Investigations, Homicide Investigations, Trauma Informed Interviewing, and Criminal Investigation Courses, priced per offering at $5,440.81 to $18,136.02 per course for up to 25 participants, with durations of one to five days and custom training available. Place of performance centers on Blackstone, Virginia for most contracted work.

Activity has remained modest and episodic — one award in 2022, one in 2023, one in 2024, two in 2025, and three in 2026 — reflecting a narrow customer base and training-on-demand buying pattern rather than sustained contract growth. The vendor holds no subcontract positions and does not employ subcontractors; all 141 awards are prime contracts. Wicklander Zulawski's federal footprint is categorized across 55 awards under Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools NAICS and 54 under Professional and Management Development Training NAICS, with PSC coding distributed across Education/Training categories (Training/Curriculum Development, Lectures, General, and Other), confirming a pure-play training and professional development vendor with specialized expertise in interview and investigation technique instruction for federal law enforcement and diplomatic security missions.

WZ is a globally recognized leader in investigative interviewing and interrogation training. We have developed and refined non-confrontational, ethical, and evidence-based techniques for investigative professionals across federal agencies, law enforcement, military, corporate security, human resources, and financial institutions. Our curriculum is grounded in behavioral science and legal compliance, ensuring the highest standards in reliability and integrity.