The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded an indefinite delivery contract to the Nez Perce Tribe, a federally recognized sovereign nation, to provide specialized consultation, technical assistance, surveys, workshops, and other support services. This $1 million single-award contract enables the USACE to flexibly obtain the Tribe's expertise in areas such as archaeological and cultural resource management, hazard mitigation planning, environmental compliance, and traditional knowledge contributions to inform the agency's civil works, environmental stewardship, and tribal engagement missions in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon.
Under this IDV, the USACE has issued a series of firm fixed-price delivery orders to the Nez Perce Tribe Finance Office Division, valued between $30,000 to $180,000, to support specific initiatives within the USACE's Northwest Division Wawaweewi and Federal Columbia River Power System programs. Task orders cover activities like historic properties management, site monitoring, workshops, and cultural resource surveys, often with the aim of mitigating impacts to tribal cultural sites and incorporating traditional ecological knowledge. The work is performed primarily in Lapwai, Idaho and Walla Walla, Washington without any set-aside designations, leveraging the Tribe's status as a sovereign nation to directly contract with federal agencies.
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