The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army, a non-profit tax-exempt organization headquartered in Alexandria, Louisiana, delivers temporary residential housing and comprehensive support services for homeless veterans to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor on a single-customer, full-and-open (no set-aside) contract and IDV footprint.

The Salvation Army's federal work consists entirely of delivery orders against multiple indefinite-delivery contracts issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 (VISN 16), which operates the Alexandria VA Health Care System serving the Rapides catchment area in Louisiana. All thirty-five awards in the source data are prime deliveries to VISN 16, with no subcontractor or sub-award activity. The vendor competes exclusively under full-and-open procurement; the source notes that one of the two active IDCs was originally set-aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, but The Salvation Army was not designated with that status at award. Services center on room and board, counseling, drug screening, transportation, and community support for veterans enrolled in substance-abuse treatment or the Health Care for Homeless Veterans program. The vendor operates under NAICS 624229 (Other Community Housing Services) and 623220 (Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities), reflecting the split between general homeless-veteran housing and substance-use-disorder-specific residential beds. Recent delivery-order work includes a $313,120 award on June 1, 2026, for residential housing for homeless veterans through May 31, 2027, and a $170,820 order under the Substance Use Disorder Services (SUDS) program running through March 31, 2027. A larger indefinite-delivery contract valued at $1,026,776 ran through May 31, 2023. The vendor holds two active IDCs: one issued June 1, 2026, with a $1.606 million ceiling through May 31, 2031, and a second issued April 26, 2024, with an $841,932 ceiling through March 31, 2029.

Activity has remained modest and flat over the past five years—two awards in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and three in 2026—with combined potential value of $14 million across the entire footprint and only $3.8 million obligated to date (27% of ceiling). Two awards carrying combined potential value of $484 thousand reach completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete. The SCI dataset shows minimal federal service-contract reporting: $129 thousand in invoiced revenue across FY2024 only, across 3.9 contract-level FTEs, at a consistent median government-paid rate of approximately $15.73 per hour. This pricing and FTE scale reflects direct-delivery staffing for housing-provision work rather than professional services. The Salvation Army operates no subcontract relationships under its federal awards and brings no named subs to VISN 16 delivery orders. The organization's federal footprint is entirely customer-dedicated to VISN 16 and geographically concentrated in Alexandria and Shreveport, Louisiana.