Federal contractor · BILLINGS, MT

ALTERNATIVES INC

ALTERNATIVES INC received $1.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−25% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $11.5M. Its largest customer was Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons ($1.2M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.2M
New awards
6
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1MFY2017
  2. 1.1MFY2018
  3. 659.2KFY2019
  4. 916.9KFY2020
  5. 1.2MFY2021
  6. 966.7KFY2022
  7. 1.4MFY2023
  8. 1.4MFY2024
  9. 1.6MFY2025
  10. 1.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$1.2M100%
    6 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$1.2M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Yellowstone County, MT$1.2M100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL REENTRY CENTER (RRC) SERVICES LOCATED IN BILLINGS, MONTANA AND HOME CONFINEMENT SERVICES WITHIN 200 MILES OF THE RRC FACILITY. FY26 FUNDING$1.3M
    Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Yellowstone County, MT· Education & social services· Dec 1, 2025 – Aug 12, 2026· 15BRRC26F00000041
  2. TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL REENTRY CENTER (RRC) SERVICES LOCATED IN BILLINGS, MONTANA AND HOME CONFINEMENT SERVICES WITHIN 200 MILES OF THE RRC FACILITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH SOLICITATION 15BRRC23R00000028.$1.1M
    Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Yellowstone County, MT· Education & social services· Nov 19, 2024 – May 20, 2026· 15BRRC25F00000101
  3. TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL REENTRY CENTER (RRC) SERVICES LOCATED IN BILLINGS, MONTANA AND HOME CONFINEMENT SERVICES WITHIN 200 MILES OF THE RRC FACILITY. FY26 FUNDING$238.2K
    Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Yellowstone County, MT· Education & social services· Dec 17, 2025 – Feb 11, 2026· 15BRRC26F00000122
  4. OPTION YEAR FOUR (4) WITH A PERFORMANCE PERIOD OF: 10/01/2024 - 09/31/2025. COMMUNITY TREATMENT SERVICES SUBSTANCE USE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT SERVICES IN BILLINGS, MT$109K
    Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Yellowstone County, MT· Education & social services· Sep 16, 2024 – Feb 10, 2026· 15BCTS24F00000279
  5. BPQ 15B40026PR000002 TASK ORDER 15BCTS25F00000309 ALTERNATIVES 611 FY26 OY5 BILLINGS, MT NCRO TASK ORDER COVERAGE: 10/01/2025-09/30/2026 CONTRACT NUMBER 15BCTS21D00000611 COMMUNITY SUBSTANCE USE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT IN BILLINGS$101.5K
    Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Yellowstone County, MT· Education & social services· Aug 13, 2025 – May 1, 2026· 15BCTS25F00000309
  6. CTS SERVICES IN BILLINGS, MT$0
    Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Yellowstone County, MT· Education & social services· Jul 28, 2026 – Jul 28, 2026· 15BCTS26F00000391

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $336.6K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $47K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $718.6K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

3 companies · $1.1M reported

  1. STATE OF MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES$508.8K
    HELENA, MT · 5 subawards
  2. CITY OF BILLINGS$347K
    BILLINGS, MT · 2 subawards
  3. MONTANA BOARD OF CRIME CONTROL$246.4K
    HELENA, MT · 4 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. CYDKAM CENTER, LLC$4.1M−1.9% in FY2026
    NEELYVILLE, MO · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Other residential care facilitiesFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Outpatient care centers
  2. CINC II, INC$3.8M+120% in FY2026
    LAKE CHARLES, LA · 91% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Other residential care facilities
  3. HUMAN SERVICE CENTER$3.7M−14% in FY2026
    PEORIA, IL · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Other residential care facilitiesFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Outpatient care centers

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.