Alternatives Inc.

Alternatives Inc., doing business as Alpha House, is a Montana-based nonprofit organization registered as a federal contractor since 2005. The organization specializes in community corrections and reentry services for federal inmates transitioning from incarceration back into society. Alternatives Inc. provides comprehensive rehabilitative and transitional support programming to facilitate the successful reintegration of federal offenders into the Billings community and surrounding regions.

Through its federal prime contracts, Alternatives Inc. has delivered extensive community-based correctional and treatment services funded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Prisons Central Office. The organization's primary contract deliverables include residential reentry center (RRC) services, home confinement services within a 200-mile radius of its Billings, Montana facility, substance use disorder treatment, mental health counseling, sex offender treatment programming, intake assessments, group counseling, psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and crisis intervention. Recent delivery order awards include a $135,328 task order dated December 1, 2025, for RRC and home confinement services scheduled for completion by September 30, 2026; a $99,045.42 task order dated October 1, 2025, for community substance use, mental health, and sex offender treatment services covering the period through September 30, 2026; a $254,067.50 task order dated October 1, 2025, for RRC and home confinement services through November 30, 2025; and a $1,585,000 delivery order dated December 1, 2024, for RRC and home confinement services. Additional historical delivery orders issued between 2021 and 2024 ranged from approximately $86,000 to $1.1 million, all issued under firm fixed-price contract structures with no set-aside designations applied. All contract awards have been issued directly by the Bureau of Prisons Central Office with no identified subcontractors or set-aside designations, demonstrating Alternatives Inc.'s role as a prime contractor delivering services directly to the federal government.

Alternatives Inc. has received federal grant sub-awards from both the State of Montana Department of Health and Human Services and the City of Billings. Recent sub-grant awards include funding dated October 30, 2024, and October 25, 2024, from the State of Montana Department of Health and Human Services designated for "SOR" and "SOR Recovery" purposes. The organization also received a sub-grant award dated September 30, 2024, from the City of Billings to provide supportive services to the homeless, those at-risk of homelessness, and those fleeing domestic violence. Earlier grant sub-awards dated July 2, 2022, were allocated to strengthen information technology and app development to provide remote mental health treatment options to low-income clients, with funding administered through both the City of Billings and unspecified federal grant sources. Additionally, Alternatives Inc. received a pilot program sub-grant from the State of Montana Department of Health and Human Services dated March 22, 2021. These grant awards reflect the organization's involvement in comprehensive health, social services, and technology-enabled treatment initiatives extending beyond its primary Bureau of Prisons contract work.

Alternatives Inc. holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $10,472,561 with the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons Central Office, awarded on December 1, 2024, with performance extending through November 30, 2026. This IDV does not fall under a parent contract vehicle and provides the authority for the Bureau of Prisons to issue task orders for residential reentry center services and home confinement services in Billings, Montana, with geographic coverage extending 200 miles from the primary facility. The IDV contract carries a firm fixed-price structure with no set-aside designation. Multiple task orders have been issued under this indefinite delivery vehicle throughout its execution period, representing the Bureau of Prisons' ongoing procurement mechanism for community-based reentry services that facilitate federal inmates' successful reintegration into the Billings community and surrounding region through evidence-based treatment and supportive programming. The underlying solicitation for this contract (15BRRC23R00000028) was originally posted on November 3, 2022, with award documentation indicating the contract supersedes previous IDIQ arrangements between the parties.