Colville Confederated Tribes Inc.

Colville Confederated Tribes Inc. is a federally recognized Native American tribal government entity that provides a wide range of services to the U.S. federal government through contracts and grants. Based in Nespelem, Washington, the organization primarily offers cultural resource management, environmental assessment, and technical support services to federal agencies. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, as they are also known, have a long-standing relationship with various government departments, leveraging their unique expertise and jurisdiction over their ancestral lands to support federal projects and initiatives.

The Colville Confederated Tribes have been awarded numerous contracts by agencies such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Indian Health Service, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Their services include archaeological site monitoring, traditional cultural property assessments, shoreline monitoring, technical report preparation, and National Register of Historic Places eligibility determinations. They have also provided environmental services, infrastructure support, and administrative assistance. Notable projects include conducting TCP (Traditional Cultural Property) studies for various reservoirs, providing armed law enforcement patrol services for the Grand Coulee Power Office, and offering telecommunications services for Indian Health Service clinics. The tribe has received contracts for burial site inspection, creative mitigation through story mapping, and curation services for archaeological collections. Most of their contracts are awarded without set-aside designations, reflecting their unique status and capabilities.

Colville Confederated Tribes Inc. currently holds two significant Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs) with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The first, awarded in September 2023 (W912DW23D1006), has a ceiling value of $2,586,853.14 and runs through September 2028. This single-award IDC covers technical reports and cultural resource services, including shoreline monitoring, archaeological site monitoring, and traditional property identification within the tribe's aboriginal territory. The second IDC (W912DW20D1002), awarded in June 2020 with a ceiling of $1,433,302.08, focuses on cultural resource management at Chief Joseph Dam. Under these IDCs, the tribe provides a range of services such as evaluative testing, data recovery, and National Register eligibility determinations. These contracts demonstrate the federal government's ongoing reliance on the Colville Confederated Tribes' expertise in managing and preserving cultural resources in the Pacific Northwest region.