Kaibab Band Of Paiute Indians

Kaibab Band Of Paiute Indians, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Fredonia, Arizona, operates as a federal grant recipient providing tribal government services, transit operations, environmental and natural-resource management, and facility lease arrangements to federal agencies. The tribe acts as a prime recipient on 98% of its recent awards (243 of 247 total) with minimal subcontract exposure; it competes without set-aside designations, drawing federal funding through direct tribal formula grants, project grants, and cooperative agreements rather than through competitive procurement vehicles.

The tribe's capability footprint centers on four distinct service lines anchored in tribal sovereignty and on-reservation infrastructure. Transit operations dominate by award volume — the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) accounts for 25 awards across multiple fiscal years, funding the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians Transit Services, a demand-response transportation system serving approximately 300 tribal residents across the Kaibab Paiute Indian Reservation with service extending into northern Arizona, southern Utah, and southern Nevada. FTA formula grants have funded personnel salaries, vehicle operations and maintenance, office expenses, training, and vehicle insurance for Monday–Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. service, with medical appointments as the primary use case. Environmental and water-resource programs represent the second pillar: the tribe holds recipients grants from the EPA Region 9 for water quality monitoring, non-point source programs, and water quality data analysis ($75,008, October 2025 start); from the Bureau of Reclamation for the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program covering historic properties monitoring and cultural-sensitivity training (through September 2027); and from the Department of Energy for electric grid resilience under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (through April 2032). Wildlife and natural-resource management grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 support desert bighorn sheep population management, habitat restoration, and GPS-collar studies on the reservation. Federal grant sub-awards flow through the Arizona Department of Health Services (PHEP public health emergency preparedness funding, $51 thousand to $64 thousand per award as of late 2024) and through River Network for native vegetation restoration and invasive species removal. The third pillar is facility leasing: the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Central Office Office of Leasing reports 16 awards valued at $1.8 million combined potential, routed through GSA BPAs including GS09B01699 (66 task orders, $5.7 million) and GS09B02558 (11 task orders, $1.3 million), signaling the tribe's role as a lessor of nonresidential buildings on the reservation. A single federal contract prime — a $12,500 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Department of the Interior National Park Service (Arizona Region) for "Moccasin Communication Site Use" awarded June 2024 — appears in the contract footprint. The fourth pillar is tribal economic development and education: the Office of Indian Economic Development (OIED) awarded a $59,700 project grant (September 2022) for a travel-plaza feasibility study on a 90-acre tribally owned commercial site along U.S. Route 89A; the Institute of Museum and Library Services funded the "Kaibab Strong Foundations" project to improve youth literacy and educational outcomes (September 2024); and the Administration for Native Americans supported Nuwu Language (Southern Paiute, Kaibab Dialect) revitalization (September 2021).

Customer concentration is diffuse across 34 distinct federal agencies, with no single agency dominating. The top five funding sources by award count account for 35% of all awards: the Federal Transit Administration (25 awards), the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education (18 awards), the GSA Public Buildings Service Central Office Office of Leasing (16 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service (16 awards), and the GSA Public Buildings Service (12 awards). By combined potential value, the GSA Public Buildings Service Central Office Office of Leasing anchors the dollar ranking at $1.8 million across 16 awards, followed by the Bureau of Reclamation at $724 thousand (7 awards). The FTA's 25 awards carry smaller individual magnitudes within formula-grant programs. The tribe's award portfolio shows a total combined potential value of $8.2 million across 247 awards, though actual obligated dollars reached $29.8 million — a 364% ratio indicating prior-year funding and multi-year cooperative agreements.

Activity has remained modest and relatively flat: six awards in 2022, five in 2023, seven in 2024, five in 2025, and two in the first four months of 2026. Nine awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting modest recompete exposure. The leading parent vehicles are GSA Basic Ordering Agreements GS09B01699 (66 task orders, $5.7 million) and GS09B94699 (32 task orders, $51 thousand), with GS09B02558 carrying 11 task orders and $1.3 million. Category concentration is pronounced: 115 awards (47% of the portfolio) fall under NAICS 531110 (Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings except Miniwarehouses), reflecting the tribe's role as a facility landlord under GSA leases; 19 awards carry the PSC code for Social–Direct Aid to Tribal Governments (PL 93–638), and 17 awards for Medical–Other services. Sub-award exposure is negligible at four sub-awards across the entire portfolio, distributed among Arizona Department of Health Services (three PHEP awards dating 2023–2025) and River Network (one habitat-restoration sub-award, January 2025).