U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award
for Virginia and DC
Our Mission
The mission of SPQA is to promote continual improvement strategies and provide training, mentoring, and recognition to organizations in pursuit of performance excellence.
Our Work
SPQA uses the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework as our foundation in our efforts to assist organizations in Virginia and Washington, DC to achieve better results.
Our Story
For more than three decades, SPQA has been serving healthcare, businesses large and small, not-for profits, school systems and government agencies to achieve excellence.
Ones to Watch is a partnership between SPQA and Commonwealth of Virginia focused on supporting small businesses. The program provides training, coaching and resources to identified small businesses..
Featured Content
Baldrige 2019 Fall Conference – Save the Date
The Baldrige 2019 Regional Fall Conference will be held October 24 and 25 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, TN. Several state programs have joined together to design a quality program featuring the winners of the 2018 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Mark your calendars now and stay tuned for more…
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Featured 2018 Baldrige Award Winner: Tri County Tech
Tri County Tech, in Bartlesville, OK, is one of five recipients of the prestigious 2018 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality award for Performance Excellence. Award recipients were honored at the annual Quest for Excellence conference, April 7, 2019. Tri County Tech (TCT) is one of 29 public technology centers in the Oklahoma Career and Technical Education…
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Communities of Excellence 2026
Communities of Excellence 2026 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that hosts a national learning collaborative of communities across the country, trains communities in the Baldrige-based Communities of Excellence framework, and provides opportunities for communities to work together, and share successes, challenges, ideas and best practices on their performance excellence journeys. The Communities of Excellence Framework –…
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