Prairie Quest, Inc.

Prairie Quest, Inc., operating through its Prairie Quest Consulting Division and doing business as Pqcworks, is a woman-owned small business and SBA 8(a) certified contractor based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, that delivers administrative, professional, and healthcare support services to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) and occasionally as a subcontractor. The vendor competes across both 8(a) set-aside and full-and-open vehicles, with recent set-asides concentrated in Competitive 8(a) and Woman-Owned Small Business categories.

Prairie Quest's capability portfolio centers on referral management services for military medical treatment facilities, administrative and facilities support, technical library operations, domain staff management, governance advisory services, and logistics coordination. The vendor's most visible work stream is referral management services to the Defense Health Agency supporting legacy Air Force medical treatment facilities across regional nodes—Northwest, North, West, Southwest, Northeast, and Central—with recent awards including a $7.9 million definitive contract (April 2026) covering forty-two Air Force installations across CONUS, Alaska, and Hawaii; a $12 million competitive 8(a) delivery order for Northwest Node services (April 2023); and a $11.5 million delivery order for Central Node services (April 2023). Beyond healthcare, Prairie Quest delivers domain staff management support services to Naval Education and Training Command at Fort Story, Virginia (a $7.8 million delivery order through March 2030 under Seaport-NXG), technical library support to US Pacific Fleet Forces in San Diego, mailroom and administrative services to NOAA's Seattle facility ($1.2 million through September 2027), and governance advisory services to the Army War College's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute ($637 thousand through June 2028).

Customer concentration is broad but anchored by defense and federal civilian agencies. The top five funding agencies by award count represent 53% of recent awards, led by Army Headquarters Deputy Chief of Staff Personnel/Army Recruiting Command (31 awards, $21.6 million combined potential value) and Air Force Materiel Command (28 awards, $23.5 million). By potential value, the portfolio is dominated by Department of Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (6 awards, $10 billion combined potential value), Air Force Headquarters District Washington (5 awards, $171 million), and GSA Federal Acquisition Service (6 awards, $151 million), with Defense Health Agency contributing 14 awards worth $99.3 million. The two rankings diverge significantly: Navy's value concentration reflects participation on high-ceiling government-wide vehicles, while Navy carries fewer individual award transactions than mid-tier customers such as Army Recruiting Command and Air Force Materiel Command.

Prairie Quest holds seats on two multi-billion-dollar GSA indefinite-delivery vehicles awarded recently: an OASIS+ Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ (awarded December 2024, no dollar ceiling specified, extending through December 2029) and an OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business IDIQ (awarded September 2024, no dollar ceiling specified, extending through September 2029), each covering seven functional domains (management and advisory services, technical and engineering services, research and development, intelligence services, environmental services, facilities, and logistics). The vendor also operates under the Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NXG) multiple-award IDIQ administered by GSA, with multiple task orders for domain staff management and technical library services. Across all parent vehicles tracked in the source, the top vehicle is an Air Force IDC (FA865010D6054) carrying 28 task orders and $3.8 million combined potential value, followed by GSA Multiple Award Schedule work (23 task orders, $16.3 million) and a Commerce Department IDC (DOC50PAPT1300011) with 18 task orders and $8 million potential value.

Activity contracted sharply in recent years—from six awards in 2023 to eleven in 2024 and only two in 2025—with a single award recorded in 2026 (the DHA definitive contract in April). This trajectory suggests a potential recompete cliff: four awards carrying $9.9 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete risk for the vendor if extensions or follow-on work do not materialize. The vendor's broader footprint spans 197 awards with a combined potential value of $10.74 billion, though only $167.3 million (2% of potential value) has been obligated, indicating a large backlog of delivery order ceiling capacity rather than invoiced revenue.

Service Contract Inventory data (which covers federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold) shows Prairie Quest reported minimal SCI-reportable invoicing: $443 thousand in FY2022 and $573 thousand in FY2023, supporting 5.1 and 7.1 contract-level FTEs respectively in those years, with zero reported in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $37.73/hr to a 90th percentile of $71.78/hr, with a median of $42.48/hr, reflecting administrative and support labor pricing. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor performed 100% of contractor hours directly (zero average sub-hours share), indicating self-delivery rather than subcontractor reliance on those particular contracts.

In its subcontractor footprint, Prairie Quest performs education and training support services as a subcontractor to Calibre Systems Inc. on Army Force Management School work (eight sub-awards issued between January and September 2024), delivering administrative, logistical, operations, registration, safety program, and accreditation support to the US Army Force Management School.

Prairie Quest's corporate structure includes a named subsidiary, PDQ Health Services, LLC, designated as a joint-venture women-owned small business and joint-venture economically disadvantaged women-owned small business, though the source does not specify PDQ's operational role or work scope within the parent enterprise.

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