Alston Wilkes Society

Alston Wilkes Society, doing business as Alston Wilkes Central, is a South Carolina-based nonprofit organization that operates as a prime contractor delivering residential reentry center (RRC) and home confinement services to the federal government — services that provide transitional housing, case management, counseling, and vocational training for federal offenders preparing to reintegrate into their communities. The organization also serves as a grant recipient from the Department of Veterans Affairs, delivering supportive housing services to homeless and low-income veteran families. All 166 recent awards are prime contracts or grants; the vendor does not subcontract.

The organization's customer footprint is highly concentrated around the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons. The Bureau of Prisons Central Office accounts for 135 awards (99% of award count) with $233.6 million in combined potential value. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration accounts for 24 grant awards (separate from BOP contract work), and the BOP Southeast Regional Office holds 4 additional awards valued at $1 million combined. This concentration around a single contracting office reflects Alston Wilkes' specialization in federal reentry services and the BOP's reliance on this provider across multiple RRC locations. The vendor competes in full and open competition — no set-asides are used in any of the contract awards reviewed.

Alston Wilkes' contract work with the BOP is organized around five primary indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs). The largest is IDC 15BRRC19D00000042 (Greenville, South Carolina RRC and home confinement services), which carries a ceiling of $9,859,638.12 and runs through May 31, 2029, with 14 task orders generating $8.7 million in combined potential value. Recent delivery orders under this vehicle include $1.37 million (awarded December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2026), $1.156 million (awarded October 1, 2025, through May 31, 2026), and $576,000 (awarded June 1, 2026, through September 30, 2026). Additional IDCs cover RRC operations in Columbia, South Carolina (IDC 15BRRC19D00000041, $13.4 million across 12 task orders), Florence, South Carolina, North Charleston, South Carolina, and Fayetteville, North Carolina. The vendor operates these facilities as the sole prime contractor with minimal subcontracting and manages contract performance from its headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina.

On the grant side, Alston Wilkes is a recipient under the VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program (CFDA 64.033) and the VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program (CFDA 64.024). Recent SSVF grants include $3,054,213 (awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, across South Carolina) and $3,054,213 (awarded October 18, 2024, for the same period). Alston Wilkes also holds a $813,550 Case Management Grant under the GPD Program (awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028). Earlier awards from the VA include grants in Pennsylvania and South Carolina ranging from $199,879 to $3.32 million, all targeted at very low-income veteran families experiencing or at risk of homelessness. These grants fund outreach, case management, VA benefits navigation, and temporary financial assistance for housing stabilization.

Activity has remained roughly flat across the past five years (8 awards in 2022, peaking at 11 in 2023, declining to 10 in 2024 and 9 in 2025), with only 1 award recorded in early 2026. This reflects the long-duration nature of the IDC vehicles and task-order issuance cadence rather than bidding volatility. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: only 3 awards (combined potential value $1.9 million) have ultimate completion dates within that window. The BOP contract portfolio's potential value of $233.6 million anchors the vendor's federal footprint, with most work concentrated in South Carolina and a secondary presence in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Work is performed at RRC facilities in Greenville, Columbia, Florence, North Charleston, and Fayetteville, with home confinement services extending up to 150 miles from each RRC location. The vendor's parent company is Alston Wilkes Society, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit, and the "Alston Wilkes Central" doing-business-as designation appears in recent BOP contract language.