This is a $251,055.00 purchase order contract awarded by the Indian Health Service (IHS), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to Nativearc, LLC, a Native American-owned small business based in Redmond, Oregon. The contract is for the provision of emergency medicine physician services at the IHS Gallup Service Unit in Gallup, New Mexico for the period of April 1, 2023 through June 30, 2023.
The contract was awarded under the Buy Indian Act, which sets aside certain federal contracts for Indian-owned businesses. Nativearc is certified as an Indian Economic Enterprise, Minority Owned Business, and Self Certified Small Disadvantaged Business. The company has a history of providing medical staffing and healthcare services, primarily to the IHS, across various specialties to support healthcare access for American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
In addition to this purchase order, Nativearc holds several Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contracts with the IHS, including a $3.1 million single-award contract for hospitalist, family medicine, and internal medicine physician services, a $3.2 million multiple-award contract for physician assistant, nurse practitioner, and certified nurse midwife services, and a $1.54 million single-award IDIQ contract for area-wide locums services.