Alaska Region

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Alaska Region is a civilian sub-agency within Interior that manages federal contract and grant funding for Alaska Native tribes, villages, and regional Native corporations, with a focus on tribal governance, economic development, and community services. The Alaska Region contracts for professional services, supplies, and construction supporting tribal operations and administers federal grant programs for tribal capacity-building and project funding.

The agency has awarded 498 federal contracts totaling $12.9 million in combined potential value since 2004, with $12.4 million obligated. Recent contracting activity has accelerated: the Alaska Region closed 4 awards in 2022, 10 in 2023, 19 in 2024, 24 in 2025, and 15 year-to-date in 2026, with the most recent award closing on 26 September 2026. Among the top five primes by award count over the last five years, Tanana Commercial Company LLC dominates with 29 awards ($1 million combined potential value), followed distantly by Raventek Solution Partners, LLC (7 awards), and Regency Consulting Inc. (4 awards). By-value concentration is highly fragmented, with the top five primes covering only 15 percent of combined potential value; Tanana Commercial Company LLC remains the largest by reported dollars, but SMG of Alaska Inc. ($579 thousand), Regency Consulting Inc. ($154 thousand), and several single-award vendors with lower reported values all compete materially. The contractor base is broad: 216 distinct primes have been awarded across the portfolio history. The set-aside mix reflects the agency's tribal focus: 74 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation, 15 percent are Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise set-asides, 9 percent are Total Small Business, and smaller shares (1 percent or less each) go to 8(a) Sole Source, Buy Indian, Competitive 8(a), and Indian Economic Enterprise designations.

Grant activity has been dormant since 2019. The Alaska Region has closed 30 federal grants totaling $13.6 million in combined federal dollars obligated, with the most recent grant award closing on 1 September 2019. Across the grant portfolio history, awards averaged 6 per year from 2015 through 2019 (13 in 2015, 3 in 2016, 5 in 2017, 3 in 2018, and 5 in 2019), then ceased. Nearly all awards (29 of 30, or 97 percent) are Project Grants, with a single Cooperative Agreement. The recipient base spans 29 distinct entities, with no recipient-concentration data available from the source to identify leading award recipients.

No recent contract opportunities or grant opportunities are recorded against the agency or its descendant offices.