Step Up On Second Street, Inc.

Step Up On Second Street, Inc., a Santa Monica-based nonprofit organization, operates as a prime federal contractor delivering Housing First model supportive housing services, case management, and outreach to homeless populations, predominantly veterans, through service delivery contracts and federal grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), with no set-aside designations across its portfolio.

The organization's footprint is highly concentrated. Across 90 total federal awards (prime and sub), two customer agencies account for 97% of awards: the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (44 awards, $154.2 million combined potential value) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (43 awards). The VA dominates both award volume and dollars; HUD's contribution is meaningful but not yet quantified in the source's potential-value summary. Within the VA's ordering pattern, Step Up delivers primarily through indefinite delivery contracts, with the top-value vehicle being Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C26223D0087 at $42.6 million combined potential across three task orders, followed by HUD-VASH Housing Placement and Case Management at $6.9 million across six task orders. Work is categorized under NAICS 624220 (Other Community Housing Services), with PSC codes concentrated in Social Rehabilitation (24 awards) and Other Social Services (16 awards).

Step Up's VA contract work splits across three major IDC vehicles. The largest is the $37.7 million HUD-VASH IDC (awarded September 21, 2023, running through August 31, 2028), which funds permanent supportive housing, case management, housing placement, and outreach for homeless veterans in the greater Los Angeles area. Delivery orders under this vehicle range from $130 thousand to $3.2 million and support approximately 202 veterans per award. A second IDC, the $16 million Enhanced Use Lease Project-Based Voucher VA Supportive Housing Services contract (awarded March 1, 2024, through February 28, 2029), funds on-campus case management and supportive services including site visits, intake assessments, treatment planning, and benefits application facilitation at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and VA facilities across California. Recent delivery orders under this vehicle include a $1.27 million order (March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027), a $1.256 million order (March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2026), and a $1.32 million order (April 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025). A third, legacy IDC valued at $4 million (awarded April 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023) supported HUD-VASH case management with two delivery orders totaling $3.1 million.

Step Up's HUD grant footprint centers on the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), which supports permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homelessness prevention. Recent CoC grants total $11.6 million across nine awards spanning FY2024–FY2026, with individual awards ranging from $135 thousand to $3.9 million. Notably, Step Up holds concurrent CoC awards on overlapping fiscal-year schedules (e.g., multiple awards covering September–August and November–October periods), reflecting its role as a lead recipient coordinating community-wide homelessness initiatives in the Santa Monica and greater Los Angeles area. In addition to prime awards, Step Up appears as a sub-recipient in at least two HUD COVID-relief grant sub-awards from 2021, providing shelter, administration, and outreach services.

The vendor's activity trajectory has been steady. Over the past five years (2022–2026), award volume ranged from 8 to 10 per year, with a combined obligated value of $57.9 million across the full portfolio's $154.2 million potential value ceiling. Eight awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $4.5 million combined potential value and presenting near-term recompete exposure. Step Up operates as a prime in 97% of its awards; the 3% sub-award footprint (3 sub awards out of 90) reflects occasional sub-recipient status on larger HUD initiatives rather than a systemic subcontracting posture. No named prime contractors appear in the source material.

Service Contract Inventory data, which captures federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold, shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $3.2 million across FY2022–FY2024 on prime contracts only, with FY2022 at $1.6 million (15.7 FTEs) and FY2023 at $1.7 million (13.7 FTEs). On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $59.25/hr, with the 10th percentile at $23.67/hr and 90th percentile at $62.85/hr—a profile consistent with frontline case management, outreach, and supportive-services labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Step Up performed substantially all work with its own staff, averaging 0% subcontract hours, indicating a vertically integrated service-delivery model rather than a pass-through structure. The SCI data set represents a strict subset of Step Up's federal services activity and excludes goods, grants (which constitute a material portion of recent awards), and non-federal revenue.