Office of International and Tribal Affairs

The Environmental Protection Agency Office of International and Tribal Affairs, a civilian sub-agency within EPA, administers international and tribal environmental policy, regulatory coordination, and capacity-building programs. The office transacts through both federal contracts and grants but maintains a sparse, episodic funding footprint relative to its broader parent agency.

Contract activity is minimal and highly fragmented. The office has issued 41 total federal contract awards since 2003, with combined potential value of $8.3 million and $6.8 million obligated to date. Recent activity cadence is extremely light: 1 award in 2019, 3 in 2020, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2024, and 1 year-to-date in 2026. Among the most recent five awards, competitive concentration is highly fragmented, with the top three primes — National Academy of Public Administration, Sixt Ride GMBH & CO. KG, and Leech Lake Tribal College, Inc. — accounting for all three recent awards but only 3 percent of combined potential value, indicating that the office awards small, dispersed contracts across a deep contractor base of 30 distinct primes. The set-aside mix is dominated by unrestricted awards (80 percent of volume), with the remainder split among Total Small Business (12 percent), 8(a) Sole Source (5 percent), and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (2 percent).

Grant activity is similarly constrained. The office has issued 7 total federal grant awards since 2015, obligating $25.1 million in federal dollars. Awards per year across the last five years show 1 award in 2016, 1 in 2017, 1 in 2022, 2 in 2023, and 1 year-to-date in 2026. Recipient concentration is concentrated, with the top three — United Nations Environment Programme ($10.4 million), Organis Cooperation Developp Economique ($4.4 million), and Battelle Memorial Institute ($1.9 million) — holding 67 percent of federal dollars obligated across just four distinct recipients. Assistance-type distribution is predominantly Project Grants (57 percent of awards), supplemented by Cooperative Agreements (29 percent) and one Formula Grant (14 percent).

No recent contract opportunities or grant opportunities are recorded in current solicitation pipeline data. This office operates on an as-needed basis rather than through recurring, scheduled funding cycles, making pursuit contingent on visibility into planned international or tribal environmental initiatives and direct relationship-building with the office's program staff.