Life Skills For New Life LLC

Life Skills For New Life LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Terre Haute, Indiana, delivers faith-based spiritual guidance and inmate rehabilitation programming to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor across multiple correctional facilities. The vendor operates exclusively within the federal corrections space, competing as a small business across both Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders.

The company's customer base is singular and highly concentrated. All 142 awards in the source data (100% coverage) flow from three Federal Bureau of Prisons locations: Federal Correctional Institution Milan (63 awards, $2.9 million combined potential value), Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute (55 awards, $2.4 million combined potential value), and Federal Correctional Complex Petersburg (24 awards, $397 thousand combined potential value). FCI Milan and FCC Terre Haute—both within operational proximity to the vendor's Terre Haute headquarters—anchor the portfolio. The vendor holds no subcontract work; all 142 awards are primes.

Life Skills For New Life LLC's capability portfolio centers on the Life Connections Program, a faith-based inmate rehabilitation initiative. The vendor provides Catholic spiritual guide services, Protestant spiritual guide services, general Christian spiritual guidance, Life Connections Program facilitator services, and resource specialist services supporting reentry preparation. Representative work includes a $324 thousand single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (total small business set-aside, October 2022 through September 2027) for Catholic spiritual guide services at FCC Terre Haute with monthly delivery orders ranging from $1,125 to $64,800; a $342 thousand single-award IDV (total small business set-aside, March 2025 through September 2029) for Catholic spiritual guide services at FCI Milan; a $261 thousand single-award IDV (total small business set-aside, December 2023 through March 2028) for Life Connections Program facilitator services at FCI Milan; and a $217 thousand single-award IDV (total small business set-aside, March 2023 through February 2028) for Protestant spiritual guide services at FCI Milan. The vendor also receives frequent small delivery orders (often $1,000 to $10,000) for individual months of spiritual guidance work.

Activity has been consistent but modest in scale. Awards declined from 14 in 2023 to 11 in 2024, recovered to 12 in 2025, then dropped to 3 in 2026 and 2027 combined—a trajectory reflecting the vendor's reliance on monthly task-order issuance under a small number of large IDV vehicles. Combined potential value across all awards is $5.7 million, with $2 million (36%) obligated to date. Only 2 awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, representing $60 thousand in potential recompete exposure.

The vendor's parent-vehicle footprint is entirely within the Federal Bureau of Prisons' own IDV contracting structure. The top five IDVs by task-order count are: Indefinite Delivery Contract 15BFA022D00000041 (13 task orders, $158 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract DJBP041800000143 (11 task orders, $310 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract 15B41817D00000146 (7 task orders, $166 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract 15B41718D00000290 (6 task orders, $275 thousand), and Indefinite Delivery Contract 15BFA023D00000005 (6 task orders, $145 thousand). The source data does not provide details on which facility or service line each IDV supports, but the pattern of multiple active vehicles with overlapping geographic and service scopes suggests fragmented ordering across the three Bureau of Prisons locations.

Life Skills For New Life LLC competes exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides on its IDV awards; individual delivery orders under those vehicles are issued on a no-set-aside basis, indicating open competition for task orders once the prime IDV is in place. The vendor holds no positions on government-wide vehicles, agency-wide BPAs, or GSA Schedules. Its federal footprint is entirely corrections-specific, with no diversification into civilian agencies, DoD, or other federal customer bases. The business model depends on sustained utilization of four single-award IDV vehicles and the renewal of those vehicles as they approach completion — a structural concentration risk mitigated only by the vendor's established track record and geographic proximity to two of the three customer facilities.