Lifemoves

Lifemoves, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Santa Clara, California, provides emergency residential services, transitional housing, and supportive case management for homeless individuals and families, with particular focus on vulnerable veteran populations, as a prime contractor on federal delivery orders and grant awards without set-aside designation. The organization competes exclusively in full-and-open federal procurements and does not hold SBA certifications.

Lifemoves' federal footprint is heavily concentrated in two customer agencies. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 dominates the dollar landscape, funding 93 awards with $81.5 million in combined potential value, across six active indefinite-delivery contracts (IDCs) with ceiling values ranging from $2.5 million to $7.4 million and totaling approximately $34.5 million. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds 160 awards, predominantly under the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), though the two customers' rankings diverge sharply — HUD awards are numerous but individually smaller, while VA dollars dominate the potential-value scale. Together, these two agencies account for 95% of awards and 99% of combined potential value. Lifemoves also receives per diem and capital funding directly from the VA's VHA Under Secretary for Health for transitional housing operational support and individual living units for homeless veterans.

On the VA contract side, Lifemoves executes emergency residential services (HCHV), hospital patient hotel (HOPTEL) overnight lodging, and medical respite care across multiple delivery orders. Representative work includes a $1.16 million delivery order awarded April 1, 2026, under a $6.9 million IDC for emergency residential services for homeless co-ed veterans in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties through March 31, 2027; a $511,000 delivery order awarded August 1, 2026, for geriatric emergency residential services for homeless veterans in San Mateo, Santa Clara, or Southern Alameda counties under Executive Order 14398, running through July 31, 2027; and a $2.5 million HOPTEL IDC awarded November 1, 2024, for hospital patient hotel lodging at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in Menlo Park, California, through October 31, 2029, with two delivery orders issued to date totaling $626,340. On the HUD side, Lifemoves is a recipient of Continuum of Care project grants totaling $303,133 (April 1, 2026–March 31, 2027) and $145,342 (February 1, 2026–January 31, 2027) for permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services. Lifemoves also appears as a sub-recipient on local Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) awards from Santa Clara County and the City of San Jose for shelter operations, rapid re-housing, and facility improvements at Julian Street Inn and the HomeKey Palo Alto shelter.

Activity has been volatile over the past five years — 11 awards in 2022 rose to 21 in 2024 before declining to 10 in 2025 and 5 in 2026 (through early August). Nine awards with combined potential value of $5 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. Recent activity reflects Lifemoves' reliance on delivery-order issuance cycles under its six active VA IDCs rather than new vehicle awards; IDC awards themselves are infrequent, with the most recent occurring in November 2024. Across top parent vehicles, Lifemoves places task orders under five distinct VA IDC contracts (36C26119D0070, 36C26118D0117, 36C26118D0118, 36C26118D0113, 36C26119D0007), with order counts ranging from 5 to 7 and combined potential values from $765 thousand to $5.3 million per vehicle.

Lifemoves operates as a pure prime, with 96% of its 274 federal awards placed as prime contracts or grants and 4% as sub-awards (11 sub-awards). On the grant side, the vendor receives sub-grant funding from local jurisdictions and county agencies administering HUD ESG and Continuum of Care pass-throughs. Service Contract Inventory data show minimal SCI-reportable prime contracting: $963 thousand invoiced in FY2022 across 4.9 FTEs, with zero SCI records in FY2023 and FY2024, indicating that Lifemoves' federal service activity either falls below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or is structured as grants and delivery orders that SCI does not capture. Government-paid hourly rates on the limited SCI-reportable work ranged from $84.93/hr at the tenth percentile to $116.58/hr at the median, consistent with mid-level residential and supportive-services labor. The vendor does not engage subcontractors on its prime contracts.