Cherokee Nation Management & Consulting, L.l.c..

Cherokee Nation Management & Consulting, L.L.C., a tribally-owned 8(a)-certified small disadvantaged business and subsidiary of Cherokee Nation Businesses LLC, operates as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) across federal civilian and defense agencies, delivering facilities management, administrative support, environmental compliance, engineering services, and logistics support. Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the firm competes predominantly in full-and-open competitions with no set-aside requirements on most individual task orders, despite its 8(a) eligibility and tribal ownership designation — a posture that reflects its scale and competitive positioning relative to larger primes.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families anchors 98% of combined potential value across the entire portfolio: a single-award indefinite-delivery contract valued at $75 billion awarded March 7, 2023, for influx care facilities and related services supporting unaccompanied children through a ten-year period of performance ending February 21, 2025. This vehicle alone dwarfs all other work. Outside HHS, the Navy (five awards, $188.9 million combined potential value) and Air Force Materiel Command (five awards, $118.4 million) represent the largest dollar customers, followed by Pacific Air Forces (nine awards, $70.9 million) and the National Park Service (104 awards, $66.7 million by count). The National Park Service dominates by award volume — 104 awards covering facilities support, IT services, and administrative staffing at the Denver Service Center — but contributes only $66.7 million against the HHS vehicle's $75 billion ceiling. Recent activity shows a sharp decline: 19 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 16 in 2024, and only 1 in the first quarter of 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal: just three awards totaling $30.9 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.

Capability framing tracks the award portfolio's dispersion across facilities, administration, environmental compliance, and engineering. Representative prime awards include a $206.1 million definitive contract with HHS Administration for Children and Families (June 8, 2022) for direct care and supervision of unaccompanied children; a $43.6 million Navy operations support purchase order (September 22, 2024) performed in Albany, Georgia, with subcontractors Anglicotech LLC (veteran-owned, supply chain and logistics), Tactical Edge Inc. (service-disabled veteran-owned, systems integration), Kalman & Company Inc. (women-owned, program management), and Cherokee Nation Government Solutions LLC (tribally-owned 8(a), environmental and technical support); a $24.05 million Navy consolidated storage operations support purchase order (January 22, 2024) with the same four subcontractors; and a $4.47 million Pacific Air Forces delivery order (September 20, 2022) for advisory and assistance services to the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan, under 8(a) sole source set-aside. The vendor also holds a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery contract with the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 29, 2025, running through December 28, 2035) covering research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, and cyber modernization for multi-domain homeland defense, and an OASIS+ Unrestricted multiple-award contract (awarded December 17, 2024, running through December 16, 2029) with a placeholder ceiling from GSA Federal Acquisition Service.

Vehicle position spans major government-wide and agency-specific platforms. The vendor places the most task orders under NPS Indefinite Delivery Contract INP16PC00395 (83 task orders, $8.6 million combined value) for IT and administrative support services; the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (40 task orders, $7.1 million); Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contract FA248618D0010 (30 task orders, $14.1 million) for civil engineering; and Army Indefinite Delivery Contract 19AQMM19D0051 (27 task orders, $19.2 million) for environmental and program management services. The HHS $75 billion influx care vehicle carries a minimum guarantee delivery order (ceiling $2,500, March 15, 2023, modified to extend through February 21, 2025) but the full scope of that vehicle's task-order activity is not isolated in the award listing.

Service Contract Inventory data show heavy civilian service-contract invoicing, though SCI captures only contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes the largest HHS vehicle. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $467.9 million across FY2022–FY2024 (prime records): $392.1 million in FY2022 across 307 FTEs, $28.7 million in FY2023 across 240 FTEs, and $47.1 million in FY2024 across 249 FTEs. The vendor delivered roughly 250 FTEs annually to federal service contracts across this period. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ran a median of $97.22 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $46.28 per hour and the 90th percentile at $4,801.33 per hour (likely reflecting billable consultant or project management roles). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average of 6% of total contractor hours, with 23 named subcontractors reported. The vendor operates as a largely organic delivery vehicle rather than a heavy subcontractor shop.

Subcontractor footprint outside SCI shows Cherokee Nation Management & Consulting acting as a sub to International Business Machines Corporation on the A4 and SAF/IE Enterprise Support Services contract (eight sub awards between February 2025 and August 2025 for computer programming and technical services), and as a sub to Cherokee Nation Strategic Programs, LLC on MARFORRES operations management and technical support (September 15, 2024). The pattern reflects occasional niche subcontracting rather than a consistent feeder role.

GSA Schedule labor categories span 65 unique occupational codes ranging from Order Filler I at $34.46 per hour through Technical/Principal Consultant III at $244.86 per hour, with education levels from high school through bachelor's degree and no security-clearance-required roles. The portfolio skews toward facilities support services (95 awards), office administrative services (85 awards), and environmental consulting (43 awards), consistent with the NAICS and PSC distribution and the customer base dominated by facilities-heavy, administrative-heavy civilian agency missions.

The HHS $75 billion influx care vehicle represents an outlier that reshapes the entire portfolio profile. The vendor's remaining 353 prime awards, worth $3 billion combined potential value (excluding HHS), show a flat-to-declining trajectory since 2022 and concentrated exposure to a small set of civilian agencies (NPS, Air Force, Navy, Army, State). The recent award of SHIELD and OASIS+ represent long-term strategic positioning in multi-domain defense and government-wide services, but execution velocity on these vehicles has not yet materialized in visible task-order activity as of the source date.

Cherokee Nation Management & Consulting (CNMC) provides expertise in a wide range of technical disciplines, including engineering, environmental, information and asset management, along with physical and life science disciplines. CNMC provides solutions in research, consulting, analytical and technical management support services. CNMC supports both professional and non-professional staffing needs for defense and civilian agencies.