Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes

Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes, operating as Fort Peck Tribe Executive Board, is a federally recognized tribal government based in Poplar, Montana, that acts primarily as a direct recipient of federal grants (93% of 844 total awards) across health, community development, justice, transportation, and environmental programs. The tribe competes in full-and-open federal grant competitions reserved for Native American tribal entities, with work performed across the 2.1-million-acre Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern Montana spanning geographically dispersed rural communities.

The tribe's federal portfolio is heavily concentrated in grant work across social services, healthcare, and infrastructure. Among top-volume customers by award count, the Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service leads with 94 awards, followed by HHS Administration for Children and Families (77 awards) and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education (68 awards). Recent representative grant work includes a $519,066 three-year Community Health Aide Program Tribal Planning and Implementation project from HHS Indian Health Service (CFDA 93.228, awarded July 2026) to expand healthcare workforce capacity and community-based care; a $1.544 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (CFDA 16.813, awarded July 2026) to modernize the tribe's automated fingerprint information system and computerized criminal history records; a $1.5 million Indian Community Development Block Grant from HUD (CFDA 14.862, awarded July 2026) for housing and community development; multiple Tribal Transportation Program awards from the Federal Highway Administration totaling over $8 million (CFDA 20.205, 20.289) for road and bridge construction on the reservation; and a $744,809 cooperative agreement with EPA (CFDA 66.920, awarded June 2024) for solid waste infrastructure and recycling improvements. The tribe also holds a significant leasing arrangement through GSA Basic Ordering Agreement GS08B13439, which carries 101 task orders valued at $113.3 million in combined potential value, suggesting real estate or facility management work for federal agencies.

On the contract side, the tribe holds a small but recurring set of definitive contracts with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance (TERO) services—four consecutive fiscal-year awards of $32,000 to $33,000 from October 2022 through October 2025, most recently awarded October 1, 2025. These represent the only named prime federal contract awards in the portfolio; the remainder is grant-based.

The tribe's activity trajectory shows modest year-over-year variation, declining from 40 awards in 2024 to 26 in 2025 and 16 through September 2026, likely reflecting reporting lag on newly obligated awards. Twenty-five awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and represent recompete exposure. The portfolio carries $142.2 million in combined potential value across all awards, with $429.1 million obligated (indicating closed-out or completed projects heavily outweigh remaining value on the books).

Sub-award work is minimal (7% of total awards, 55 sub-awards), primarily routed through the State of Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services on programs including Food Distribution on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), WIC, Health Monitoring Funds (HMF), public health emergency preparedness (PHEP), and emergency management sustainment. One sub-award with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (April 2024) supports grassland habitat conservation on the tribe's 17,000-acre Cultural Buffalo Ranch.

The tribe maintains a tribally owned for-profit subsidiary, West Electronics Inc., classified as a minority-owned and self-certified small disadvantaged business that manufactures goods; the extent of federal contracting through this subsidiary is not detailed in the source. Work is performed on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation with administrative oversight at Poplar, Montana (501 Medicine Bear Road, Poplar, MT 59255), and the tribe serves as both prime recipient and ultimate beneficiary on the vast majority of its grant awards, consistent with tribal government eligibility under Native American-directed federal grant programs.