Morning Star Propane, LLC

Morning Star Propane, LLC, a tribally owned, Native American-owned limited liability company based in Lame Deer, Montana, supplies propane and delivery services to federal facilities and tribal healthcare infrastructure as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing under Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise (ISBEE) set-asides and full-and-open solicitations. The company qualifies as a tribally owned firm, Indian Economic Enterprise, and minority-owned business under the SBA's Native American contracting framework.

Morning Star Propane operates exclusively within a narrow federal customer set anchored to tribal and Indian health programs in the Mountain West. The Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service holds the largest single award by dollar value — a $672,700 firm fixed-price purchase order (base plus four one-year option periods running through January 31, 2028) for propane delivery to the Northern Cheyenne Service Unit clinic and 21 government housing units in Lame Deer, Montana. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs Rocky Mountain Region accounts for six awards (combined potential value $407 thousand) for propane supply to Northern Cheyenne Agency facilities, Busby operations, and agency tanks across multiple purchase orders. A seventh award flows from the BIA's Central Office. Together, the BIA and IHS represent 100% of the vendor's recent award footprint, with the IHS contract representing 51% of combined potential value and the BIA Rocky Mountain Region contributing 31% across a higher volume of smaller purchase orders. The vendor does not sit on any government-wide contract vehicles, agency-wide IDIQs, or multiple-award schedules; all work flows from direct purchase-order awards.

Representative work includes a $36,480 May 2026 purchase order (100% ISBEE set-aside) to supply 19,200 gallons of propane to six BIA-owned Northern Cheyenne Agency facilities through September 2026, a $49,307 February 2023 ISBEE set-aside purchase order for monthly propane delivery to the Northern Cheyenne Service Unit clinic with allowance for up to 62,000 gallons in one-time community healthcare deliveries, and an $80,567 February 2023 ISBEE set-aside purchase order for propane services to the Busby facility. Non-ISBEE awards include a $42,525 February 2025 BIA purchase order and a $24,998 September 2024 BIA purchase order for agency tank propane in Lame Deer.

Activity spans eight prime awards (eight in 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 combined) with combined potential value of $1.3 million and $1 million obligated to date (81% of ceiling). Three awards carrying combined potential value of $758 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to recompete activity in that window. The vendor maintains no subcontract footprint and operates solely as a prime contractor. NAICS concentration centers on Petroleum Refineries (4 awards) and Industrial Gas Manufacturing (2 awards), with PSC coding split across Fuels, Solid (5 awards) and Gases: Compressed and Liquefied (2 awards). Morning Star Propane's federal presence is specialized and geographically constrained to Northern Cheyenne tribal infrastructure in Montana, with no diversification across federal civilian agencies, the Department of Defense, or other customer bases outside the tribal healthcare and BIA operations ecosystem.

We are a tribally owned firm that has a successful track record for delivering to both commercial & residential customers. Morning Star has responsibly completed contracts in the federal marketplace.