Western Alternative Corrections, Inc.

Western Alternative Corrections, Inc., doing business as Western Alternative Correction, a Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Hastings, Nebraska, is the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons' primary community-based outpatient treatment provider, delivering substance use disorder treatment, mental health counseling, medication-assisted treatment, and sex offender treatment services as prime contractor across a fourteen-location nationwide network of Residential Reentry Centers and day reporting centers. The vendor competes exclusively on a full-and-open basis (no set-aside categories recur across the prime footprint), though several of its ten active single-award IDIQs carry Total Small Business designations at the parent contract level; 100% of the vendor's 235 recent awards are prime contractor positions with zero subcontract volume.

Western Alternative Corrections delivers community-based outpatient behavioral health services including intake assessments, individual and group counseling, psychiatric evaluations, medication monitoring, crisis intervention, and case management designed to support federal inmate rehabilitation and successful reentry. Representative work includes a $518,883 delivery order with the Bureau of Prisons Central Office for substance use, mental health, medication-assisted treatment, and sex offender services in Kearney, Nebraska (October 1, 2026–June 30, 2027, Total Small Business set-aside, firm fixed-price), a $1,123,601 delivery order for similar services in Columbus, Ohio (October 1, 2026–August 31, 2027, Total Small Business set-aside), and a $980,059 delivery order for substance use, mental health, sex offender, and medication-assisted treatment services in Tucson, Arizona (November 1, 2025–September 30, 2026, full-and-open).

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office accounts for 224 of 229 awards (97% by count) and $110.5 million of $110.9 million in combined potential value. The Bureau of Prisons North Central Regional Office places five additional awards valued at $434 thousand. This concentration reflects the vendor's exclusive federal-corrections treatment services business model—the Bureau of Prisons is the only federal customer in the recent award footprint.

The vendor holds ten active single-award IDIQs with the Bureau of Prisons, collectively valued at approximately $34.4 million with completion dates extending through January 2030. Named vehicles include the Denver IDIQ ($5.46 million ceiling, Total Small Business, through June 2028), the Little Rock IDIQ ($8.9 million ceiling, Total Small Business, through January 2031), the Columbus IDIQ ($7.19 million ceiling, Total Small Business, through August 2030), the Sioux Falls IDIQ ($4.67 million ceiling, Total Small Business, through December 2030), the Boise IDIQ ($3.63 million ceiling, full-and-open, through April 2027), the Anchorage IDIQ ($3.07 million ceiling, Total Small Business, through November 2026), the Las Cruces IDIQ (ceiling approximately $330 thousand, Total Small Business, through February 2028), the Flagstaff IDIQ ($1.98 million ceiling, full-and-open, through April 2027), the Topeka IDIQ ($2.43 million ceiling, full-and-open, through September 2026), and the Tucson IDIQ ($794 thousand ceiling, full-and-open, through October 2027). Task orders flow monthly or quarterly against these vehicles on a firm fixed-price basis with guaranteed minimums and estimated maximums across service categories.

Activity has grown from 26 awards in 2022 to 35 in 2025, with 29 awards year-to-date in 2026. The vendor faces a recompete cliff of fourteen awards valued at $5.7 million completing within the next twenty-four months—primarily expiring option years on its active IDIQ portfolio, including the Topeka vehicle (ultimate completion September 2026), the Anchorage vehicle (ultimate completion November 2026), and several delivery orders under multiple vehicles with 2026–2027 completion dates. No subcontractor relationships or sub-award activity appears in the source material; Western Alternative Corrections performs all contract work as prime contractor without identified subs.

Western Alternative Corrections registered for federal awards in 2004 and has maintained consistent contract performance across the Bureau's nationwide correctional facility network. The vendor operates exclusively within the federal corrections treatment services market with no diversification across other agencies or mission areas. Its business model depends entirely on recurring delivery orders against its ten parent IDIQs with the Bureau of Prisons Central Office, with no pipeline identified outside the federal corrections space.

Since 1999, Western Alternative Corrections (WAC) has worked with violent and non-violent offenders, male and female, on probation or parole in a wide variety of capacities. WAC works closely with community stakeholders to build community support. WAC provides residential reentry services and outpatient mental health, substance abuse and sex offender treatment.

Core Competencies include Residential Reentry Services, Clinical Treatment Services, Drug Testing, Contract Management

WAC is a SBA Woman Owned Small Business and are current and active with the Systems Award Management. We are well versed in working with Federal Bureau of Prisons in system delivery and compliancy with rules, regulations, policies and procedures. We consistently meet and exceed guidelines and deadlines outlined in our federal and state contracts. WAC currently has over 25 Federal and State of Nebraska contracts for services for the adult offender population.