Cherokee Federal Solutions, L.L.C.

Cherokee Federal Solutions, L.L.C. Cn3S Division, a tribally-owned 8(a) certified small disadvantaged business and subsidiary of Cherokee Nation Businesses, operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) delivering environmental compliance, facilities support, program management, and specialized technical services to over 55 federal agencies across defense and civilian sectors. The firm is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and carries SBA designations as an Indian Economic Enterprise, minority-owned business, and self-certified small disadvantaged business; it competes under 8(a) sole-source and competitive 8(a) set-asides on the majority of its environmental and program-support work, with additional full-and-open awards across multiple IDIQs.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on three core areas grounded in active work: environmental services including underground storage tank remediation, hazardous waste management, and compliance support at military installations; facilities and real property support including program management, energy systems updates, and infrastructure maintenance; and specialized technical services spanning financial management, records management, telecommunications maintenance, and research support. Representative recent prime work includes a $3.15 million 8(a) sole-source delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers (September 2025) for environmental program support at Fort Bliss, Texas and New Mexico; a $2.053 million 8(a) sole-source delivery order from Air Education and Training Command (May 2026) for AFSAT financial management support services at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas; and a $1.89 million firm fixed-price delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers (September 2023) for environmental compliance services at Parris Island, South Carolina, which engaged three subcontractors including Cherokee Strategic Solutions and Montrose Environmental Solutions for specialized environmental remediation and peer review work.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward defense and federal civilian agencies, with the top five customers (43% of awards) anchoring most activity volume. The Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command leads by award count (46 awards, $45.7 million combined potential value) and the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters dominates by potential value (14 awards, $1.04 billion combined potential value) driven primarily by the SHIELD Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract. The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command ranks third (19 awards, $41.7 million combined potential value), the Department of State Bureau of Administration fourth (5 awards, $41.4 million combined potential value), and the Department of Justice Civil Division fifth (10 awards, $39.6 million combined potential value). The FAA ranking signals a sharp divergence between award count and dollar concentration — a single large vehicle carries outsized value relative to transaction volume.

Vehicle position reflects the vendor's placement across five major IDIQs. The vendor holds seat on Indefinite Delivery Contract FA302018D0005 with 27 task orders ($9.5 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract W91CRB18D0013 with 16 task orders ($14.9 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract 6973GH19D00077 with 15 task orders ($13.2 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract N4008521D1208 with 11 task orders ($4.3 million combined potential value), and Indefinite Delivery Contract W912BV21D0009 with 10 task orders ($15.8 million combined potential value). Most significantly, the vendor holds a $151 billion Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense / SHIELD) from the Missile Defense Agency awarded December 2025 with ultimate completion December 2035, which supports research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization across multi-domain defense requirements — though activity on this vehicle remains nascent (one $500 initial delivery order to date). The vendor also operates under an 8(a) sole-source Air Education and Training Command IDIQ for AFSAT financial management support valued at $19.85 million (May 2022 through May 2027) with four active delivery orders placed, and maintains a $9.9 million Army Corps of Engineers Environmental District Mobile IDIQ (September 2022 through September 2026) under 8(a) sole-source set-aside with cumulative task order value exceeding $10 million.

Activity has declined across the trailing five years — from 29 awards in 2022 to 21 in 2024, with only 7 awards in 2025 and 1 award to date in 2026 — signaling either contracted capacity constraints or a shift toward fewer but larger task orders rather than transactional volume. Within the next twenty-four months, twelve awards carrying combined potential value of $9.1 million face ultimate completion and therefore expose the vendor to recompete activity.

Service Contract Inventory data reflects SCI-reportable invoicing of $67.8 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2025 records not yet closed in SCI), with FY2022 at $24.9 million, FY2023 at $24 million, and FY2024 at $18.9 million, indicating declining SCI-captured revenue trajectory over the recent period. FTE delivery scaled at roughly 125 FTEs in FY2022, 101 in FY2023, and 160 in FY2024, demonstrating workforce volatility likely tied to contract cycles and task-order timing. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ran a median of $71.73 per hour, with 10th percentile at $35.18 per hour and 90th percentile at $184.72 per hour, reflecting a mix of administrative labor (records technicians, administrative support) and higher-skill technical roles (program management, senior analysis). GSA Schedule labor portfolio carries 16 active categories spanning $33.44 to $151.86 per hour, including records-management roles at entry-level rates, financial specialists and paralegals in the mid-tier, and senior records analysts commanding top rates, with several roles offering security-clearance options.

Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor leveraged subcontractors for an average 11 percent of contractor hours, with 49 total named subcontractors reported across the SCI dataset. Named primes the vendor subcontracts to include Cherokee Nation Defense Solutions LLC (consulting services support). The vendor frequently engages specialized environmental and technical subcontractors including Cherokee Strategic Solutions L.L.C. (a sister tribally-owned 8(a) firm under Cherokee Nation Businesses), WSP USA Solutions Inc., Tetra Tech, Inc., and Montrose Environmental Solutions Inc. to support complex environmental remediation and compliance requirements, positioning Cherokee Federal Solutions primarily as a delivery prime that builds specialized sub-teams rather than operating predominantly as a feeder to larger primes.

The vendor's work splits across five primary service categories: Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (41 awards), All Other Telecommunications (28 awards), Facilities Support Services (25 awards), Remediation Services (25 awards), and Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (22 awards). PSC distribution reflects this diversification: Support — Professional (Other) anchors 56 awards, Other Environmental Services (19 awards), Health R&D and Health Care Services (17 awards), Support — Administrative (13 awards), and Architect and Engineering — General (12 awards).

CN3S is an experienced provider of professional support services. Our goal is to provide strategic and personalized approaches by focusing on our unique technical capabilities and contracting solutions. Our technical capabilities include expert services in records management, education, training, administrative, program management, logistics, IT, manufacturing, equipment fabrication, and engineering. Our contract capabilities include the Tribal 8(a) and eFast contracting vehicles. CN3S' clients include a range of DoD and civilian agency clients, including the Army, the Air Force, the Department of Justice, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Federal Aviation Administration.