La PAZ Regional Hospital, Inc.

La PAZ Regional Hospital, Inc., a nonprofit tax-exempt hospital organization headquartered in Parker, Arizona, delivers hospital support services and reference laboratory testing to the Indian Health Service as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards), competing under full-and-open procurement with no recurring set-aside designations. The vendor has held federal contracts since 1995 and maintains active service relationships with the Indian Health Service serving the Parker Indian Health Center and subordinate facilities.

The vendor's customer footprint is highly concentrated. The Indian Health Service accounts for 25 of 33 prime awards and $4 million of the $5.8 million combined potential value across the portfolio — 91% of award count and 69% of potential value. The remainder splits across Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service and Rural Housing Service, and Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service and Health Resources and Services Administration. All awards derive from federal agencies within or connected to HHS and USDA civilian programs; no defense work is present.

La PAZ Regional Hospital delivers three concrete service categories across its IHS contracts: meal preparation and delivery, reference laboratory testing and blood components, and laundry services. Representative recent work includes a $481.1 thousand definitive contract awarded July 3, 2023, for meal preparation and delivery to the Parker Indian Health Center (base period through July 31, 2027, with option years extending through July 31, 2028, awarded under a Buy Indian set-aside for Indian economic entities); a $417.2 thousand sole-source purchase order awarded May 28, 2025, for reference laboratory testing and blood components services (base year plus one option year through May 31, 2030), justified on the vendor's unique geographic positioning within a 15- to 20-minute radius of the Parker facility to meet critical blood-product turnaround and refrigeration requirements; and a $642 thousand definitive contract awarded August 1, 2026, for laundry services (through July 31, 2031). A prior $40.9 thousand meal-services purchase order closed in July 2023 and a bridge contract of $11.7 thousand in January 2022 completed the meal-services transition. The vendor also holds grant sub-awards from the University of Arizona under the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (December 18, 2023) and from the Arizona Department of Health Services for cardiovascular disease and hypertension improvement programming in La Paz County (March 16, 2026).

Activity has remained sparse but steady — two awards in 2020, two in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with only one award ($481 thousand, the Parker meal services contract) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete. Combined obligations exceed potential value slightly (108%), indicating that some task orders have been exercised or modified upward from initial ceiling estimates. The vendor's concentrated reliance on the Indian Health Service, coupled with sparse total award velocity, positions it as a specialized regional healthcare-support provider rather than a broad federal contractor.