Virginia SPQA (SPQA) is a 501C-3 non-profit organization charged with administering the United States Senate Productivity and Quality Award for Virginia and the District of Columbia, along with supporting programs. SPQA is affiliated with the national Baldrige Performance Excellence Program and the Alliance for Performance Excellence, a membership organization of other state Baldrige programs. 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 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. In addition, we train individuals to become experts at assessing and evaluating an entire organization based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework and Criteria.