Next Step Day Room Inc.

Next Step Day Room Inc., a Fort Smith, Arkansas-based nonprofit domestic shelter, holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 for temporary housing and supportive services for homeless veterans in the Fort Smith area and within a 75-mile radius of the VA's Fayetteville campus. The organization operates as a prime contractor on its VA IDC (67% of recent awards) and as a federal grant sub-recipient with the City of Fort Smith (33% of recent awards), competing full-and-open without set-aside designation.

Next Step Day Room Inc.'s entire federal customer base is the VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 16, which accounts for 100% of combined potential value across all awards ($5.8 million). The organization holds a $1.457738 million single-award indefinite delivery contract running from April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2028, under which the VA issues firm fixed-price delivery orders for residential accommodations, random drug testing, case management, and direct support services. The five task orders placed under this IDC carry combined potential value of $1 million. Recent delivery orders include a $145,774.08 order for six months of Option Year 3 funding (April 1 through September 30, 2026), a $145,773.84 order for Option Year 2 renewal (October 1, 2025, through March 31, 2026), a $285,547.68 order (April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025), and earlier-year orders for $145,773.84 (April 1 through September 30, 2025) and $279,547.68 (April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024). All delivery orders are firm fixed-price with no set-aside designation.

Activity has remained flat — two awards in both 2022 and 2023, three in 2024, and two in 2025 — with only one award ($146 thousand) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Next Step Day Room Inc. also serves as a federal grant sub-recipient under Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding administered by the City of Fort Smith, receiving sub-awards for construction and rehabilitation of non-congregate shelters ($289,876 in December 2022 for acquisition and construction of administrative facilities and tiny homes), case management for eight transitional housing facilities and apartment units (October 2022), acquisition and construction of a suitable building for administrative and supportive services and non-congregate transitional housing (January 2024), and supportive services and nonprofit operating expense assistance with construction or rehabilitation of non-congregate shelters (November 2024). The organization's service portfolio concentrates on residential mental health and substance abuse facilities (six awards) and temporary shelter operations (four awards) under PSC Social–Other classification.