Cooper Zietz Engineers, Inc.

Cooper Zietz Engineers, Inc., doing business as Akana, a Native American-owned professional services firm headquartered in Milwaukie, Oregon, delivers architecture, engineering, environmental consulting, and construction management services to federal agencies predominantly as a prime contractor (98% of awards). The firm holds Indian Economic Enterprise, Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise, and Minority Owned Business certifications and competes across Buy Indian, Total Small Business, and Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise set-asides, with most prime work reserved for small business or tribal procurement categories.

Akana's customer base spans 38 federal agencies, but concentration aligns with Native American community infrastructure and federal land management priorities. By potential value, the top five customers account for 56% of combined dollars: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) leads with $40.7 million across 8 awards, followed by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Office ($39.9 million across 9 awards), the Bureau of Indian Affairs Northwest Region ($12.3 million), Indian Health Service ($12.1 million across 9 awards), and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Rocky Mountain Region ($8.6 million across 20 awards). By award count, the top five customers represent 46% of awards and show different concentration: the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration places 68 awards valued at $1.4 million combined, the Army Corps of Engineers places 36 awards at $1 million, and the Coast Guard places 22 awards at $1.9 million. This split signals that Akana receives many small task orders from DOT and USACE on legacy vehicles but concentrates its higher-value work in BIA facility assessments and forest service architecture-engineering contracts.

Akana holds four significant indefinite-delivery vehicles anchoring its prime footprint. A $25 million multiple-award IDIQ with the USDA Forest Service Region 6 (awarded September 2025, expiring September 2030) covers Transportation, Facilities, and Environmental architecture-engineering services across Oregon, Washington, and Alaska under Total Small Business set-aside. A $10 million single-award Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services (awarded April 2024, expiring April 2029) provides architect-engineering site assessments for law enforcement, detention, judicial, and residential facilities serving Native American communities; recent delivery orders under this vehicle include a $482,166.42 facility assessment at Northern Cheyenne Detention Center in Lame Deer, Montana (completed December 2024), a $468,569 delivery order for the Wind River Adult Detention Center (completed December 2025), and an $80,626 engineer site assessment at Chief Ignacio Justice Center in Towaoc, Colorado (completed October 2026). A $10 million single-award Total Small Business IHS contract (awarded March 2024, expiring March 2027) covers nationwide architect-engineering services for healthcare facilities, with representative task orders including a $200,996 firm fixed-price delivery order for Fort Yuma drive-through pharmacy design in Winterhaven, California (completed March 2028) and a $154,794 facility condition assessment of IHS Portland-area facilities (completed November 2025). A $50 million multiple-award Fish and Wildlife Service MATOC (awarded September 2022, expiring September 2027) supports Great American Outdoors Act infrastructure across federal land management agencies; Akana has issued delivery orders including a $248,097 fire station architectural-engineering project at Nevada Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex in Las Vegas (completed October 2024) and a $77,175 condition assessment of fire and intrusion alarm systems at Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco (completed April 2026, modified for government delay). Beyond these vehicles, Akana places work on a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (40 task orders, $7.1 million combined value) and legacy Army Corps IDIQ contracts (44 and 36 task orders respectively, combined $292 thousand).

Representative recent prime work includes a $275,000 labor-hour definitive contract with Department of Interior Rocky Mountain Region for water rights litigation support for Fort Belknap Agency (awarded September 2026, expiring September 2031), a $105,306 Total Small Business delivery order from Indian Health Service for fire damper and floor penetration inventory at Phoenix Indian Medical Center (awarded August 2026), and a $194,185 Total Small Business delivery order with Department of Interior for architecture, engineering, and electrical project administration services (awarded September 2024, expiring April 2027). A $1.256 million Buy Indian definitive contract with IHS for healthcare facilities and residential quarters condition assessments in Phoenix (awarded June 2023, expiring June 2028) demonstrates Akana's sustained engagement in comprehensive facility evaluation; SCI data shows this contract invoiced $25 thousand in FY2023 (229 contractor hours at $110.71/hr) and $464 thousand in FY2024 (2,723 contractor hours at $170.29/hr), with all work self-performed.

SCI-reported invoicing across prime service contracts totaled $12.3 million (FY2023: $6.1 million across 18.4 FTEs; FY2024: $6.2 million across 18.1 FTEs), reflecting only SCI-reportable contracts above $150,000 and excluding goods, products, and non-federal revenue. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ran median $162.54/hr, with 10th percentile at $125.30/hr and 90th percentile at $168.93/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs performed approximately 8% of total contractor hours, with three named subcontractors; Akana typically self-performs most delivery work. On sub contracts, Akana delivers architect-engineering and environmental support to Mission Support & Test Services LLC on Department of Energy Nevada National Security Site contracts (two sub awards, April and June 2026), to Central Plateau Cleanup Company LLC on Hanford Central Plateau Cleanup contract task orders (two sub awards, August and November 2025), and to Booz Allen Hamilton on REPA 6 Zone 3 technical and engineering support for thermal treatment and landfill facilities (two sub awards, December 2023 and January 2024). Akana also holds a named subsidiary, Avae JV LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and DOT-certified DBE structured as an American Indian-owned joint venture.

Recent activity shows four awards with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1.8 million), indicating light recompete exposure in the near term. Awards per year have averaged six to nine across 2023–2026, with total federal contract awards reaching 375 across all periods, though most volume concentrates on legacy small-value task orders on Corps and DOT vehicles. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 42 categories, with rates from $56.69/hr for Administrative Assistant I through $276.70/hr for Principal Engineer, without security-cleared roles, supporting Akana's posture as a self-perform-dominant delivery team on facility assessment and engineer-design missions.

Construction Management; Construction Inspection; Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering(water resources, irrigation, utilities, highways, bridges, environmental, schools) Project Management; Commissioning; QA/QC; Constructability Review.