Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians

The Department of the Interior Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians is a civilian sub-agency within the Interior Department that administers trust accounts, real property, and natural-resource interests on behalf of American Indian tribes and individual Indians. The Office carries out fiduciary and management responsibilities for Indian trust land and financial assets, acquiring contract support to execute those duties across a national portfolio of trust property and beneficiary services.

The Office has closed 3,707 federal contract awards totaling $1.64 billion in potential value since 2001, with $652.1 million obligated to date. Recent activity has declined sharply: 96 awards in 2017, 50 in 2018, 18 in 2019, 12 in 2020, and 1 in 2021. The most recent recorded award closed on March 1, 2021, indicating no new contract awards have been recorded against the Office for more than five years.

Among the 957 distinct prime contractors who have received awards over the life of the portfolio, competitive concentration data is not available from the source. The set-aside distribution is heavily weighted toward unrestricted competition: 2,389 awards (64 percent) carried no set-aside designation, while 1,192 awards (32 percent) were designated for Total Small Business. The remaining set-asides account for fewer than 4 percent of awards combined, including 75 awards (2 percent) under 8(a) Sole Source, 12 under Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise, 8 under Competitive 8(a), 8 under Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, 5 under HUBZone, and 4 under Indian Economic Enterprise.

No recent federal contract opportunities are recorded against the Office. With activity dormant since early 2021 and no open solicitations on file, contract pursuits at this Office are not supported by current market signals.