Council Of Athabascan Tribal Governments, Inc.

Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments, Inc. (doing business as Catg) is a tribally owned, nonprofit consortium of ten self-governing Athabascan tribes headquartered in Fort Yukon, Alaska, that provides Type 2 wildland fire hand crew services to the Department of the Interior as a prime contractor competing in open federal procurements without socioeconomic set-asides, alongside federal grant work in healthcare, environmental capacity-building, and cultural preservation for Alaska Native communities.

Catg operates as a native American-owned, minority-owned organization classified under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC F003 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). The vendor holds the $40 million Alaska Wildland Fire Hand Crew Services IDIQ (awarded March 9, 2026, running through March 31, 2031), under which it mobilizes trained Type 2 hand crews of 18–20 personnel per crew—comprising one crew boss, three squad bosses, two to four fallers, and twelve to fourteen basic firefighters—to perform fire break construction, fire suppression, containment, mitigation, and post-fire cleanup across Alaska public lands. Crews are stationed at designated assembly points across nine Alaska regions and required to mobilize within two to three hours of notification during the mandatory availability period from June 1 through August 31. Recent representative prime contract work includes three delivery orders totaling $745 thousand awarded in July–August 2026 by the Department of the Interior Idaho Region and Alaska Region for wildland fire hand crew services in Tok, Fort Wainwright, and Fairbanks, Alaska, running through March 31, 2031.

Customer concentration is pronounced and narrowly focused: the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management National Office accounts for 29 awards and $93.2 million of the combined potential value across all 120 awards (covering 45% of recent awards). The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region and Alaska Region account for an additional $1.8 million combined potential value across eight awards. The top parent vehicle is the predecessor Alaska Type 2 Wildland Fire Hand Crew Services 2020–2025 IDIQ, under which Catg placed 26 task orders carrying $6.2 million combined potential value before the 2026 recompete. The two additional identified IDVs—Indefinite Delivery Contract 140L0626D0009 (6 task orders, $1.8 million) and Blanket Purchase Agreement INL12PA00067 (1 task order, $17 thousand)—carry minimal secondary vehicle exposure. Catg's contract footprint is nearly entirely prime work, at 98% of awards, with minimal subcontract exposure: three sub-awards (2% of awards) for grant work under Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Alaska Domestic Violence Prevention programs.

On the grant side, Catg acts as prime recipient across Department of Health and Human Services (Health Resources and Services Administration and Indian Health Service), Department of the Interior (Fish and Wildlife Service), and Environmental Protection Agency programs. Recent named grants include a $3.954 million Denali Commission (CFDA 90.100) project grant for Arctic Village Clinic replacement in Fort Yukon with completion deadline December 31, 2025; a $163 thousand U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 15.664) to provide logistical and curriculum support for Alaska Native Relations Training Courses running through September 30, 2024; a Special Diabetes Program for Indians cooperative agreement with the Indian Health Service (Office of the Director) running through December 31, 2027, focused on diabetes prevention and management for five Yukon Flats villages; an American Indian/Alaska Native Early Head Start project grant (CFDA administered by Office of Head Start) from June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2027; and a $134 thousand Environmental Protection Agency Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (CFDA 66.926) award effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, for baseline water quality sampling, environmental monitoring, drone-based site assessment, and technical grants management assistance to member tribes in the Yukon River region.

Activity has been moderately variable over the past five years—six awards in 2022, ten in 2023, four in 2024, five in 2025, and eight in 2026—with only two awards carrying ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete exposure. Combined potential value across all 120 awards stands at $95.3 million, though combined dollars obligated ($100.7 million) exceed that figure by 6%, reflecting prior invoicing against task orders. Catg operates with no identified major subcontractors on fire crew work and retains its workforce in Fort Yukon and subordinate Alaska villages, with performance across multiple named Alaska locations including Tok, Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, and Anchorage, as well as western United States public lands.