Shepherd's Heart Fellowship

Shepherd's Heart Fellowship, a Pittsburgh-based non-profit organization, operates as a prime recipient of federal contracts and grants providing transitional housing and comprehensive support services for homeless veterans, competing exclusively full-and-open (no set-asides) under single-award IDIQs with the Department of Veterans Affairs. The organization specializes in temporary shelter and social-rehabilitation services under NAICS 624221 (Temporary Shelters) and PSC G004 (Social Rehabilitation), with all federal work routed through Veterans Integrated Service Network 4 (VISN 4), which oversees VA healthcare across western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland.

Shepherd's Heart Fellowship's customer footprint is entirely concentrated within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Across 25 prime awards over the past fifteen years, VISN 4 accounts for all work — 18 contract delivery orders and 5 federal grant awards totaling $2.2 million in combined potential value. An additional 2 awards flow through the VA's Veterans Health Administration broadly. The organization holds no subcontract relationships and pursues no work as a sub-awardee.

The vendor's contract vehicle position rests on four single-award IDIQs with VISN 4. The current active IDIQ, awarded August 1, 2025, carries a ceiling of $487,542 and runs through July 31, 2030, procuring healthcare and transitional housing services under the Healthcare for Homeless Veterans program. A $95,265 delivery order issued August 1, 2026, funds fiscal year 2027 program operations in Pittsburgh. Earlier IDIQs (36C24420D0082, VA24415D0302, and 36C24425D0101) generated a combined five task orders totaling $147 thousand, $256 thousand, and $188 thousand respectively across the prior contract cycle. This represents a sole-source procurement strategy — the August 2025 solicitation (36C24425Q0663) was posted as a Special Notice identifying the work as specialized, community-based therapeutic and rehabilitative services focused on removing homeless veterans from unsuitable living conditions and transitioning them to permanent housing.

Activity is low-volume and episodic. One award in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 reflect annual delivery orders under standing IDIQs rather than new vehicle wins. Only one award ($95 thousand, the August 2026 delivery order) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete pressure.

Shepherd's Heart Fellowship also holds a federal grant from the VA's Veterans Health Administration (VHA Under Secretary for Health) for per diem funding to support operational costs of transitional housing beds for homeless veterans, awarded August 28, 2023, with completion by September 30, 2025. Combined obligated dollars across all awards ($4.5 million) exceed combined potential value ($2.2 million), indicating multi-year funding stretches and potential prior-year carryover from earlier IDIQs no longer in active source data.