Definitive Contract 75H71222C00025

The Indian Health Service (IHS), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded a $13,630,341.52 firm-fixed-price contract to Prairie Band Health Services Inc., an 8(a) certified tribally-owned small disadvantaged business, to provide emergency room physician services at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Arizona. This contract has a performance period of 5 years from August 24, 2022 to August 31, 2027. The contract was set aside under the Buy Indian Act, which gives preference to Native American-owned firms when acquiring goods and services from sources within the Indian economic enterprise. Prairie Band Health Services is an Indian Economic Enterprise that specializes in providing temporary and locum tenens healthcare staffing solutions to IHS facilities across the United States, helping to address critical staffing shortages in rural and remote Native American communities.