Tekakwitha Nursing Center Inc.

Tekakwitha Nursing Center Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of Benedictine Health System headquartered in Sisseton, South Dakota, operates as a prime contractor providing express fiscal reporting services on nursing home expenditures and usage metrics to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network 23. The vendor holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract (IDC V438P2099) with a ceiling of $450,000 and a period of performance through November 2027, against which VISN 23 issues recurring firm-fixed-price delivery orders with no set-aside designation.

Tekakwitha's federal footprint is entirely concentrated on VA work. Of 96 total awards in the source record, 37 awards worth $3.4 million in combined potential value are attributed to VISN 23 specifically, with an additional 34 awards to the Department of Veterans Affairs broadly, accounting for 74% of awards and 84% of combined potential value across both rankings. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards); no subcontractor relationships are present in the source data. Recent delivery orders include a $412,318.65 order awarded October 1, 2025 for express reporting on nursing home services (ultimate completion September 30, 2026), a $340,015.07 order awarded October 1, 2024 for fiscal year 2025 nursing home spending data (due December 31, 2025), and a $285,905 order awarded October 1, 2023 for fiscal year 2024 nursing home spending data (completed September 30, 2024). All delivery orders are issued under the $450,000 single-award IDC held by VISN 23.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on nursing care facility services (61 of 96 awards), with secondary exposure in assisted living facility operations and food service contracting. Award activity shows one order in 2020, three in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2025, reflecting the sparse, recurring nature of the reporting-order cycle. Tekakwitha has been registered in SAM since 2004. The vendor places work under five named IDC vehicles (V438P1918, V438P2099, 36C26318D0026, 36C26323D0021) and one basic ordering agreement (VA26312A0017), with the largest order concentrations under V438P2099 (14 task orders, $485 thousand combined potential value) and V438P1918 (17 task orders, $181 thousand combined potential value).