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.
Featured Content
Baldrige 101 Training — April 22, 2020
Ensure your seat and register now for the April 22nd Baldrige Criteria and Framework Training to be held in Alexandria, VA. Consider sending a leadership team to maximize learning for your organization. In this introductory, but comprehensive course, you will learn how to use the Baldrige framework and the criteria to better understand your organization…
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Pathways to Excellence
SPQA is now offering Pathways to Excellence! We’ve created four pathways in which our team can interact with your organization in order to create a platform for success. Our goal is to promote continual improvement strategies and to provide training, mentoring and recognition to organizations in pursuit of performance excellence. INTEREST Level Target Audience: Designed…
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PMS 312 Wins SPQA Award
Captain Charles Ehnes accepted the 2019 SPQA Progress In Performance Excellence Award on behalf of the PMS 312 In-Service Aircraft Carrier Program. PMS 312 is part of the U.S. Navy’s Program Executive Office (PEO) for Aircraft Carriers, under the direction of Naval Sea Systems Command. The Congressional mandate to maintain a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers…
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QUEST Registration
Quest Registration is now opened… Quest, the official conference of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, features its national award winners at the Spring annual conference. Each winner presents multiple sessions on best practices and their respective Baldrige journeys. The 2020 conference is being held at the Gaylord National Harbor, National Harbor, MD, on: Tuesday,…
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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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2019 Award Winners
In October 2019, SPQA recognized seven organizations at an award ceremony in Richmond, Virginia. The awards were determined by an independent panel of judges after review of the feedback reports submitted by the teams of examiners who worked for several months reviewing an organization’s application against the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework. Three organizations were recognized…
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