Merrillville Operating LLC

Merrillville Operating LLC Hendricks County Hospital Division, doing business as Brickyard Healthcare-Merrillville Care Center, operates as a for-profit skilled nursing facility provider delivering long-term care and community nursing home services to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor on a full-and-open basis (no set-aside designation). The facility, located in Merrillville, Indiana, holds all 21 of its federal awards exclusively from Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 (VISN 12), serving veterans referred from VA medical centers across the Indiana and Illinois region.

Brickyard Healthcare's customer concentration is total and single-source: the Department of Veterans Affairs accounts for 100 percent of awards and combined potential value ($8.5 million). The vendor's federal footprint consists entirely of delivery orders issued under two parent vehicles — a Basic Ordering Agreement (VA69D14A0091) carrying 15 task orders worth $4.2 million combined potential value, and an Indefinite Delivery Contract (36C25224D0033) carrying 4 task orders worth $1.7 million. The IDC, awarded July 1, 2024, carries a five-year ceiling of $2.21 million through June 30, 2029 and governs skilled nursing facility operations and long-term healthcare delivery with fixed-price delivery orders featuring economic price adjustment provisions. Recent delivery orders under the IDC include a $332,040 order covering October 2024 through March 2025 for quarterly cost reporting and SNF services, an $893,082 order with ultimate completion September 30, 2025, and a $253,569 order for the fourth quarter 2025 through December 31, 2025.

Activity has remained modest and relatively flat over the past five years — one award annually in 2021 and 2022, then acceleration to two awards in 2023 and three in 2024, with two awards recorded through October 2025. The vendor reports $5.8 million in combined dollars obligated against the $8.5 million combined potential value (68 percent obligated). The facility performs all work without subcontractor involvement and maintains a continuous contractual relationship with VISN 12 dating to 2014. The vendor's primary NAICS and PSC coding align entirely with nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities) and nursing home, long-term and adult day care services.