U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award
for Virginia and DC
Our Mission
The mission of SPQA is to promote continual improvement strategies and to provide training, mentoring, and recognition to organizations in pursuit of performance excellence. SPQA is charged with administering the U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award recognizing the highest caliber of performance excellence.
Our Work
SPQA fulfills its mission through the Award program and other lower-tier and mentoring programs. We provide Award applicants a comprehensive, low-cost organizational performance evaluation and an extensive feedback report. We train individuals to become experts at assessing and evaluating an entire organization based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework and Criteria, and we conduct Baldrige-based workshops.
Our Story
Since 1982, SPQA has served organizations of all sizes from all sectors, and honored over 80 organizations with the prestigious Medallion Award in recognition of their achievement of performance excellence. We have trained hundreds of Examiners in the Baldrige criteria and methodologies to serve our Awards program and to support their own organization’s journey to performance excellence.
Ones to Watch is our program that focuses on small businesses. It is a partnership between SPQA and the Commonwealth of Virginia, and provides training, mentoring and resources to identified small businesses.
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Programs, Services and Costs
Is your organization seeking more effective and efficient ways to achieve excellent results? SPQA can help. SPQA is affiliated with the national Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) and conducts training and workshops on the Baldrige Criteria and Framework to help organizations in their improvement efforts. The Baldrige Framework is used by organizations of all sizes,…
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How to Participate in Discovery
SPQA’s Discovery program is a partnership between SPQA and your organization. We will be with you every step of the way as you learn and apply Baldrige criteria to your organization and complete an application. The documents below can help you decide whether Discovery is right for you. The Discovery Guide provides details on the…
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Winners of the 2019 National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award
Source NIST – Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that six organizations will be presented with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award at a ceremony on March 24, 2020, during the Baldrige Program’s 32nd annual Quest for Excellence® conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Baldrige is the nation’s only presidential award for performance…
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Baldrige 101 Criteria and Framework Training — January 7, 2020
Ensure your seat and register now for the January 7 Baldrige Criteria and Framework Training to be held in Richmond, VA. Consider sending a leadership team to maximize learning for your organization. In this introductory course, SPQA teaches you how to use the Baldrige framework and criteria to better understand your organization and help it…
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SPQA Award Winners by Economic Sector, 1983-Current
Congratulations to our latest recipients of awards from the SPQA-VA. Winners since our inception are presented below. Organizations have been applying for the Senate Productivity and Quality Award since 1983. Recognition and feedback are given to all applicants. Recipients of the Medallion award — our top award — are those exceptional organizations that have…
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