Metlakatla Indian Community

Metlakatla Indian Community, doing business as Metlakatla Power & Light, is a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Metlakatla, Alaska on the Annette Islands Reserve that acts as a prime recipient on federal grants (86% of awards) and competes in full-and-open federal contracting with no set-aside designations across its portfolio. The tribe serves approximately 1,400 members and operates as a tribally owned firm across multiple service lines, with its subsidiary Metlakatla Power & Light providing energy utilities, transit, and infrastructure services on the reserve.

The Metlakatla Indian Community's federal footprint is heavily weighted toward grant work spanning tribal government operations, environmental and renewable energy projects, and community development. Recent prime grant recipients include the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs (106 awards), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (56 awards), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (34 awards, $485 thousand combined potential value). The EEOC relationship centers on recurring $32,000–$33,000 firm fixed-price definitive contracts for Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance (TERO) services delivered annually since at least 2021; the most recent award is a $33,000 contract issued October 1, 2025, completing September 30, 2026. Beyond TERO, the tribe holds a $24.4 thousand Coast Guard environmental oversight services purchase order at USCG Air Station Annette (May 2022 award, extending through September 2026).

On the grants side, the tribe acts as recipient across environmental remediation, renewable energy, cultural preservation, and public safety programs. The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded $184,444 (October 1, 2026, congressionally directed spending) for design and engineering of mitigation measures to protect Purple Lake Hydro from environmental impacts; the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration awarded $4.23 million (November 6, 2025, Port Infrastructure Development Program) for comprehensive port rehabilitation including barge fender replacement, breakwater restoration, and boat haul-out system reconstruction; the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded $388,260 (October 1, 2025, State and Tribal Response Program Grants, CFDA 66.817) to enhance brownfields response capacity and $134,000 (October 1, 2025, Indian Environmental General Assistance Program, CFDA 66.926) for environmental administrative capacity building and waste management outreach. The tribe also received $1 million (January 1, 2025, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects) to conduct targeted European green crab trapping to suppress invasive species in the Annette Islands Reserve, $806,000 (January 1, 2025, NOAA) for Tamgas Creek Hatchery improvements to enhance salmon production, and $200,000 (August 12, 2024, Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, Tribal Energy Development Capacity Grants, CFDA 15.148) for feasibility analysis of hydrogen production using hydropower resources to enhance microgrid resilience.

Customer concentration is distributed across health, family services, and natural resources agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (53 combined awards across FY2023–FY2026 grant cycles) funds child welfare social services and family support programs. The Administration on Aging funds Older Americans Act Title VI grants for Native American nutrition and caregiver services. The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded $562,500 (October 1, 2025, Grants to Indian Tribal Governments for Violence Against Women Discretionary Grants, CFDA 16.587) for the Metlakatla Survivors Support Strategy Project, running through September 2028. The Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program awarded $175,000 (October 1, 2025, Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants, CFDA 16.710) for community policing capacity-building and $122,786 (October 1, 2025, COPS Hiring Program, CFDA 16.068) for law enforcement officer hiring through September 2030. The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded $156.5 thousand (October 1, 2025, Next Generation Warning System, CFDA 97.138) for public alert infrastructure and $176.8 thousand (July 23, 2024, Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, CFDA 97.047) for hazard mitigation and community resilience.

Awards per year across the past five fiscal years shows growth: 9 in 2022, 23 in 2023, 37 in 2024, 32 in 2025, and 22 through October 2026. The tribe holds 16 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The combined potential value across all 440 awards (prime and sub) is $798 thousand, but combined obligated dollars total $230.2 million, indicating substantial drawdown on formula and project grant programs. The tribe acts as sub-recipient on 61 awards (14% of portfolio), predominantly through Alaska Department of Education & Early Development sub-awards for Child and Adult Care Food Program meals and cash-in-lieu funding, with scattered sub-awards from Alaska Department of Natural Resources for community park development and from a U.S. Foundation for invasive species removal and outreach work.

The tribe's capability framing is community and tribal governance-centered: TERO employment rights enforcement, environmental remediation and monitoring, renewable energy feasibility and deployment, port and marine infrastructure rehabilitation, cultural preservation and language revitalization (Sm'algyax language immersion programs), public health and aging services delivery, emergency preparedness and climate resilience, solid waste management and recycling, and subsistence fishery and marine resource management. Work is performed entirely in Metlakatla, Alaska on the Annette Islands Reserve, with no geographic dispersion or parent contract vehicles anchoring the prime portfolio.