The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs awarded a $178,249.94 definitive contract to Tanana Commercial Company LLC for programmatic environmental assessments supporting the Great Plains Regional Office on September 17, 2026, under an Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise set-aside.
Tanana Commercial Company LLC is a Native American-owned, women-owned small business and certified HUBZone firm based in Tanana, Alaska. The originating solicitation, posted August 17, 2026, called for review of 22 existing programmatic environmental assessments—7 Grazing PEAs from 2018 and 15 Agricultural Leasing PEAs from 2019–2020 across tribal reservations—against current activities, tribal resolutions, and resource management plans. The contractor shall assess whether supplementation is warranted and prepare 22 draft and 22 final review memoranda addressing threatened and endangered species, invasive species, soils, wetlands, vegetation, wildlife, water resources, socioeconomic conditions, and agricultural practices, but shall not prepare supplemental PEA documents. Place of performance is Aberdeen, South Dakota. The contract runs September 15, 2026 through September 30, 2027. The award is firm-fixed-price, with technical capability and past performance weighted as most important evaluation factors.