The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society

The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, doing business as Good Samaritan Society - Canton, a tax-exempt non-profit healthcare provider based in Canton, South Dakota, operates as a prime contractor delivering skilled nursing home services to the Department of Veterans Affairs under two single-award indefinite delivery contracts with Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 (VISN 23), competing full-and-open with no socioeconomic set-asides.

Good Samaritan Society - Canton holds 100% of its recent federal award footprint with a single customer agency — VISN 23 — across nine awards with combined potential value of $12.2 million. The vendor operates under two primary IDCs: a $7 million five-year contract awarded February 1, 2023, running through January 31, 2028, and a $1.7 million five-year contract awarded October 1, 2022, running through September 30, 2027. Delivery orders issued against these vehicles total $12.2 million in combined potential value. Representative task orders include a $1,438,808.24 firm fixed-price delivery order for community nursing home services in Canton, South Dakota, running October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025; a $647,911.40 order for the same services, also performed in Canton from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024; and a $574,231.98 order for fiscal year 2023 community nursing home services performed April 22, 2023 through September 30, 2023. Facilities of performance include Canton, South Dakota and Hartley, Iowa, serving veterans across the VISN 23 region covering North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Nebraska.

Activity peaked in 2023 with five awards, declining to two in 2024 and one in 2025. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $49 thousand. The vendor operates solely as a prime contractor with no sub-award activity; across SCI-reportable prime service contracts, Good Samaritan Society - Canton reported $441 thousand in invoiced federal revenue in FY2024 across 2.7 FTEs, with government-paid hourly rates running $77.36/hr at the 10th, median, and 90th percentiles, indicating staff nursing and care-delivery positions. Good Samaritan Society - Canton is a subsidiary entity within The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, a larger tax-exempt parent organization headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota that holds additional federal grant prime awards.