Healthcare Connections, Inc.

Healthcare Connections, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Coral Springs, Florida, supplies temporary medical laboratory staffing services — including cytotechnologists, medical technologists, medical technicians, histotechnicians, and clinical laboratory scientists — to the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service as a prime contractor on delivery orders and blanket purchase agreements under GSA Federal Supply Schedules and agency-specific IDVs.

Healthcare Connections is a Subchapter S corporation and subsidiary of LHC Group, Inc., a for-profit healthcare services provider. The company competes predominantly full-and-open on federal contracts; across the recent award portfolio, small-business set-asides (Total Small Business designations) account for a minority of task orders, with most work awarded without set-aside restrictions.

Customer concentration is pronounced and split between two agencies. The top five funding entities account for 64% of awards by count, dominated by the Indian Health Service (158 awards, $20.5 million combined potential value) and the VA's multiple Veterans Integrated Service Networks (66 awards across VISN 20, VISN 2, VISN 5, VISN 8, and VISN 12). However, potential-value rankings diverge sharply: VISN 20 anchors $36.3 million (20 awards) and VISN 12 carries $18.2 million (3 awards), making the VA's larger awards proportionally more significant than IHS's volume-driven footprint. IHS places many smaller task orders; the VA concentrates dollars in fewer, larger contracts.

Healthcare Connections holds three primary parent vehicles. The Professional and Allied Healthcare Staffing Services Federal Supply Schedule (FSS-621-I) has generated 85 task orders worth $54.5 million combined potential value — the largest single vehicle across the portfolio. A Federal Supply Schedule V797P4464A vehicle carries 185 task orders valued at $15.2 million, primarily with IHS. A Blanket Purchase Agreement for cytotechnologist services with VISN 20 (effective April 2022 through March 2027, valued at $1.15 million) represents Healthcare Connections' specialty staffing work at VA medical facilities in Portland, Oregon; the source shows annual BPA renewal calls issued on April 1 for the past four fiscal years, with the most recent $217,440 call awarded April 1, 2026 for performance through March 31, 2027.

Activity has contracted significantly. The vendor received six awards in 2022, four in 2023, two in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — a steep downward trajectory over the past five years. Recompete exposure is minimal: only three awards face completion in the next twenty-four months, totaling $224 thousand combined potential value.

SCI-reported federal service-contract invoicing totaled $712 thousand across FY2023–FY2024 (FY2022 showed zero invoiced), with the vendor deploying roughly 0.7 FTEs in FY2023 and 2.9 FTEs in FY2024 on reportable contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-captured prime contracts ran a tight spectrum: median $93.49/hr, with the 10th percentile at $91.46/hr and the 90th percentile at $95.53/hr — consistent with mid-level clinical laboratory staffing. SCI shows zero subcontractor engagement; Healthcare Connections builds its own delivery teams on federal services contracts. The SCI dataset is a partial view of federal invoicing (covering contracts above $150,000 and excluding goods, products, and micro-purchases), and does not represent the vendor's total federal or enterprise revenue.

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