Better Community Development Inc.

Better Community Development Inc., doing business as B C D, is a Black American-owned non-profit community development corporation based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that operates as a prime recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor on VA residential treatment services delivery orders, competing without set-aside designations. B C D's federal footprint spans fifty-six awards across contract and grant work, with seventy-seven percent as prime awards and twenty-three percent as grant sub-awards, though the source reveals a structural pattern: combined potential value across all awards stands at $2.1 million against $9.2 million in obligated dollars (430% of potential value), indicating that the vendor's awards carry modest individual ceiling values but sustained obligated funding, typical of community development grant cycles and task-order work.

B C D's customer concentration centers on three federal housing and veterans agencies. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development leads by award count with twenty-five awards, all Continuum of Care program grants running on annual cycles (awards October 1 of fiscal years 2021–2025, with completion dates September 30 of the following fiscal year). The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 anchors the potential-value ranking with ten awards valued at $2.1 million combined and represents B C D's core contract work: firm fixed-price delivery orders for residential treatment services to support behavioral health and care coordination for the VHA's patient population in the South Central region. Representative VA delivery orders include a $116.4 thousand task order covering July 2023 to July 2024, a $41.6 thousand task order covering July 2022 to July 2023, and a $60.5 thousand task order completed July 15, 2022. B C D also holds awards from the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Administration for Children and Families, with five and four awards respectively.

B C D places task orders under three VA indefinite delivery contracts: contract 36C25619D0064 (six task orders, $425 thousand combined potential value), contract V598P (three task orders), and contract VA25617D0068 (one task order, $96 thousand potential value). Activity has remained steady at three to five awards per year across the past five years. In its sub-award role, B C D receives federal grant funding from the Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality (Weatherization Assistance Program and Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding for energy efficiency upgrades to low-income households) and from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Project HEAL sub-grants). The vendor's capability portfolio aligns with its non-profit structure: community housing services, residential treatment support for veterans, and energy-assistance weatherization for low-income populations in Arkansas.