Confederated Tribes Of The Umatilla Indian Reservation

Confederated Tribes Of The Umatilla Indian Reservation, doing business as Umatilla Indian Reservation, is a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Pendleton, Oregon that delivers cultural resource management, environmental stewardship, natural resource protection, and social services to federal agencies primarily as a grant recipient (93% of recent awards as prime recipient), with a secondary contract footprint focused on site condition monitoring, cultural consulting, and technical services. The tribe does not compete under formal SBA set-asides; work flows to CTUIR through direct awards and grant programs leveraging the tribe's specialized expertise in ancestral lands, first foods restoration, and cultural preservation across the Pacific Northwest.

CTUIR's federal footprint is heavily weighted toward grant work across a broad customer base. The top five funding agencies by award count—the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education (86 awards), the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers (58 awards), the Corps' Portland District (45 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (40 awards), and the Corps' Walla Walla District (33 awards)—account for 35% of recent awards. The potential-value ranking diverges from volume: the Corps' Portland District anchors $3.4 million in combined potential value, followed by the corps as a whole ($3.2 million), the Walla Walla District ($1.9 million), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ($476 thousand). A single indefinite delivery contract with the Army Corps of Engineers (W912EF08D0014) carries 16 task orders valued at $458 thousand; two other Corps IDCs (W912EF15D0005 and W912EF20D0004) hold 11 and 9 task orders respectively. Grant work dominates the portfolio: child care development, child support enforcement, Indian education, air quality monitoring, fisheries restoration, and historic preservation account for the majority of recent awards.

On the contract side, CTUIR delivers site condition monitoring, cultural resource analysis, oral history documentation, and technical workshops to the Army Corps of Engineers across the Federal Columbia River Power System and John Day Project. Representative examples include a $661 thousand definitive contract for hatchery services at Pendleton and Three Mile Falls Dam facilities (January 2024 through December 2027), a $449 thousand purchase order for site condition monitoring across the John Day Project (September 2025 through December 2030), and multiple sole-source 8(a) purchase orders recognizing CTUIR's unique expertise in tribal cultural property management—including a $151 thousand oral histories analysis contract (August 2024 through January 2026) and a $110 thousand technical services contract for Option Year 1 (July 2024 through October 2027). CTUIR also holds a $1 million indefinite delivery contract with the Corps generating over $500 thousand in task orders to date. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission awards CTUIR recurring $33 thousand definitive contracts for Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance (TERO) services (annually October through September).

CTUIR's grant portfolio reflects tribal government operations and federal partnership. Environmental and natural resource work includes a $1.954 million cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration for environmental restoration and waste management planning at the Hanford Site (November 2025 through October 2030), a $923 thousand cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation for habitat improvement and fish research in the Grande Ronde Basin (May 2025 through April 2030), a $3.305 million cooperative agreement with NOAA for salmonid barrier removal across three sub-basins (April 2023 through April 2027), and a $466 thousand formula grant from EPA Region 10 for air pollution control under the Federal Air Rules for Reservations (January 2026 through December 2027). Child welfare and development work includes recurring block grants from the Office of Child Support Enforcement (over $1 million annually), formula grants from the Administration for Children and Families for child care and development funds, and a $749 thousand project grant from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women for legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (October 2025 through September 2028). Indian education formula grants from the Department of Education support culturally relevant educational programming; as of July 2026, CTUIR received a $150 thousand grant for the Indian Education Grants to Local Educational Agencies program. CTUIR also operates the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, a tribally owned museum and archive on the Oregon National Historic Trail, supported by recurring Institute of Museum and Library Services project grants for collection preservation and library services.

Activity has remained steady year over year—40 awards in 2022 to 42 in 2024, with 35 in 2025 and 9 in the first eight months of 2026. Thirty-eight awards (combined potential value $944 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and will face renewal or recompete. CTUIR holds a subsidiary, Cayuse Holdings LLC, a for-profit limited liability company classified as tribally owned and minority owned.