The Indian Health Service awarded a $3.1 million definitive contract to Nativearc, LLC, a Native American-owned small business, to provide up to three full-time equivalent primary care nurse practitioners or physician assistants in family practice or pediatrics at the White Earth Health Clinic in Ogema, Minnesota, through September 14, 2027, effective August 24, 2022.
The originating solicitation, posted June 8, 2022, was set aside exclusively for Indian Economic Enterprises and sought all-inclusive hourly-rate pricing for an initial one-year term with four optional one-year extensions. Nativearc self-performs all work with no subcontractors. Service Contract Inventory reporting shows actual government-invoiced labor of 0.9 FTEs and 1,884 contractor hours in FY2023 at a derived rate of $130.41 per hour, growing to 1.1 FTEs and 2,268 contractor hours in FY2024 at $141.97 per hour—a rising pricing trend year-over-year.