Sacred Heart Health Services

Sacred Heart Health Services, operating as Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, a non-profit healthcare provider headquartered in Yankton, South Dakota, delivers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient medical services, nursing home care, laboratory services, and radiology support to federal correctional and veteran populations as a prime contractor on single-award indefinite-delivery vehicles with the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The organization competes full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Federal Prison Camp Yankton accounts for 194 of 243 total awards (80% of the portfolio) and $21.1 million of the $33.6 million combined potential value. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 places a distant second with 25 awards and $10.5 million potential value. Together these two customers represent 96% of award count and 94% of combined potential value. The portfolio is characterized by high frequency, low-value monthly delivery orders under long-term IDIQs rather than large single procurements.

Sacred Heart holds three primary federal contract vehicles. The largest is a $5.29 million comprehensive medical services IDIQ with the Bureau of Prisons awarded December 1, 2025, running through May 31, 2031, under which monthly delivery orders of approximately $100,000 are regularly issued for on-site physician staffing, nursing support, inpatient and outpatient treatment, laboratory services, and radiology technician support at Federal Prison Camp Yankton. A second Bureau of Prisons IDIQ valued at $4.6 million (contract 15B41620D00000001) generated 68 task orders and appears to be a predecessor vehicle. The Department of Veterans Affairs holds two nursing home services IDIQs: a $4 million, five-year contract (June 2023–May 2028) under which Sacred Heart delivers community nursing home care across VISN 23's Midwestern footprint, and a $711,000, five-year contract (May 2022–April 2027) for medical services and nursing home placements. Recent delivery orders under the VA nursing home IDIQ include a $1.067 million firm fixed-price order (October 1, 2024) for first-quarter 2025 services and a $651,773 order (October 1, 2025) completing September 30, 2026.

Activity has fluctuated but remains concentrated: 27 awards in 2025, 16 in 2024, 23 in 2023, 16 in 2022, and 18 so far in 2026. Only five awards with potential value of $101,000 combined face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, so recompete exposure is minimal. The organization's award portfolio is dominated by NAICS 622110 (General Medical and Surgical Hospitals) with 182 awards and NAICS 623110 (Nursing Care Facilities) with 25 awards. Labor categories span medical facility services, nursing home operations, laboratory testing, and radiology support delivered under firm fixed-price structures.

Sacred Heart is also a federal grant recipient. In September 2025, the organization won a Rural Communities Opioid Response Program Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA-25-093) for "Yankton's BEST" (Behavioral Health Experiential Student Training), a behavioral health workforce development initiative in rural South Dakota partnered with Lewis & Clark Behavioral Health Services, Yankton Public Schools, and Mount Marty University. The project runs September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. Additionally, Sacred Heart receives sub-grant awards for rural transit operations under Section 5311 (operating and capital assistance) and Section 5339 (vehicle purchase support) through the Federal Transit Administration, as well as emergency protective measures funding through the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.

The vendor's federal footprint is entirely confined to a single geographic location and two customer agencies with overlapping service populations—inmates and veterans in rural South Dakota—creating high customer concentration and limited competitive exposure to the broader federal market.