IHS Division of Grants and Contracts

The Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service Division of Grants and Contracts is a civilian sub-agency that procures contracts and grants supporting the IHS mission to deliver health services and programs to American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The Division administers both contract awards and grant funding on behalf of the IHS.

The contract portfolio is sparse and highly irregular. Since 2010, the Division has issued nine federal contract awards totaling $114 million in combined potential value, with $81.3 million obligated. Award cadence is erratic: one award in 2012, two in 2020, one in 2021, two in 2022, and one most recently in May 2026. Recent contract activity (last five years) shows four distinct primes with a single award each — Arkance USA LLC ($34 thousand potential value), American Medical Informatics Association, Inc. ($25 thousand), CDW Government LLC ($20 thousand), and Healthcare Information And Management Systems Society ($14 thousand). Competitive concentration is highly fragmented; the top four primes account for 100 percent of recent awards but the values are negligible, suggesting the Division's larger contract awards fall outside the recent window or are structured as modifications, task orders, or below-threshold purchases not fully captured in the award records. The majority of awards (78 percent) carry no set-aside designation; 22 percent are Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise set-asides.

The contract dollar values reported for recent primes are extremely modest, indicating either that the Division manages primarily small dollar-value solicitations or that most IHS contracting flows through parent-level or regional contracting vehicles rather than this sub-office. Interested contractors should verify whether the Division itself is the appropriate entry point or whether larger IHS procurement activity routes through alternate acquisition channels. No current contract opportunities are recorded in the digest for this Division.