Award to tucson indian center

Per Sec 506 {U.S.C. 1656} (a) Contracts with urban Indian organizations entered into pursuant to this title shall be in accordance with all Federal contracting laws and regulations except that in the discretion of the Secretary, such contracts may be negotiated without advertising and need not conform to the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1935 (40 U.S.C. 270a, et seq).

Per Title V. under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act states “Under authority of the Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C 13), popularly knowns as the Snyder Act, the Secretary, through the Services, shall enter into contracts with, or make grants to Urban Indian organizations to assist such organizations in the establishments and administration, within the urban centers in which such organizations are situated, of programs which meet the requirements set for this title.”  Definition of Urban Indian organization, “Urban Indian Organization” means a nonprofit corporate body situated in an urban center governed by an urban Indian controlled board of directors, and providing for the maximum participation of all interested Indian groups and individuals, which body is capable of legally cooperating with other public and private entities for the purpose of performing the activities described in section 503(a) (P.L 94-437 Approved September 30, 1976 (90 Sat. (1400) Indian Health Care Improvement Act”  Therefore, an award will be made to an Urban Indian (Buy Indian Program), non-profit organization.

Also per Title V, under Evaluations: Renewals, “The Secretary, through the Service shall develop procedures to evaluate compliance with grant requirements under this title and compliance with and performance of contracts entered into by urban Indian organizations under this title”…And…” shall conduct an annual onsite evaluation of each urban Indian organization which has entered into a contract or received a grant under section 503 for purposes of determining the compliance of such organizations with and evaluating the performance of such organization under, such contract or the terms of such grant”. And. “© if, as a result of the evaluations conducted under this section, the Secretary determines that an urban Indian organization has not complied with the requirements of a grant or complied with or satisfactorily performed a contract under section 503, the Secretary shall prior to renewing such contract or grant, attempt to resolve the such organization the areas of noncompliance or under satisfactory noncompliance or unsatisfactory performance and modify such contract or grant to prevent future occurrences of such noncompliance or unsatisfactory performance.  If the Secretary determines that such noncompliance or unsatisfactory performance cannot be resolved and prevented in the future, the Secretary shall not renew such contract or grant with such organization and is authorized to enter into a contract or make a grant under section 503 with another urban Indian organization whose contract or grant is not renewed under this section”, the reports and audits from the previous contract suggest the American Indian Association dba Tucson Indian Center fulfilled its requirements as satisfactorily therefore, this requirement will not be solicited.

Awarded contract 75H71421C00001 to American Indian Association of Tucson Inc for 4400288.11 on 2020-10-01.