North Wind Site Services LLC

North Wind Site Services LLC, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned subsidiary of Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI Development Corporation), provides environmental remediation, orphaned well plugging and abandonment, construction project management, and facilities support services to the federal government as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards), operating predominantly under Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise and 8(a) sole-source set-asides. The company is based in Murray, Utah and maintains SBA 8(a) certification through November 2025, alongside minority-owned and small disadvantaged business designations that drive its set-aside competitiveness.

North Wind's customer base concentrates heavily on Interior Department bureaus, particularly the Bureau of Land Management National Office (8 awards, $154 million combined potential value) and the Bureau of Reclamation (8 awards, $2.8 million), followed by Army Corps of Engineers regional commands across Alaska, Hawaii, and the continental United States. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 59% of the recent award footprint and cover roughly $188 million in combined potential value, but this ranking masks substantial concentration in dollars: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command holds 2 awards valued at $10 billion combined potential value, primarily a single $20.7 million definitive contract for 611th Civil Engineer Squadron project management support at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, and an unspecified second Navy award anchoring the top-dollar customer slot. Interior's BLM leads by volume with $154 million across eight awards, creating a dual concentration signature — many small-to-mid-value Interior contracts stacked against one enormous Navy vehicle.

North Wind's capability portfolio centers on three distinct service lines: orphaned oil and gas well plugging and abandonment on federal lands (driven by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding wave), environmental remediation and site closure at military installations, and project management support for Corps of Engineers construction programs. Representative prime work includes a $1.465 billion ceiling delivery order with the Bureau of Land Management (Region 3) for orphaned well plugging and abandonment services set to run through September 2027 (issued September 23, 2026), a $706,498 firm-fixed-price delivery order with the Department of Interior for plugging and abandonment at Spence Dome, Wyoming through March 2027 (issued September 24, 2026), a $20.7 million definitive contract with the Army Corps of Engineers (ENDIST Honolulu) for 611th Civil Engineer Squadron project management at Fort Shafter, Hawaii and Pacific Command area locations through June 2027, a $649,874 delivery order with the Army for document management system support at Yuma Proving Ground through September 2025, and a $932,557 delivery order with the Army Corps of Engineers for remedial action completion across military munitions response areas at former Camp Fannin, Texas (FUDS program) through August 2026.

North Wind holds positions on multiple Army Corps and Interior indefinite delivery vehicles. The top vehicle by task-order count is Indefinite Delivery Contract W912BV21D0004 (an unspecified Army vehicle), against which North Wind has placed 9 task orders valued at $8.5 million combined. The Federal Orphaned Program — Plugging and Abandonment IDIQ generated 6 task orders worth $4.2 million, Indefinite Delivery Contract 140R4019D0002 produced 6 task orders for $2.4 million, and Indefinite Delivery Contract W911KB20D0034 generated 3 task orders valued at $6.5 million. North Wind also holds two single-award and multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts issued by the Bureau of Land Management in April 2023 under the Federal Orphaned Well Program, each with a $50–$100 million ceiling and set-aside designations for Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise and Total Small Business, respectively.

Award activity has contracted from a 2023 peak (8 awards) to 5 awards in 2024, with only 1 award issued in 2025 and 2 issued in 2026 year-to-date. This decline signals either a pull-back in pursuit intensity or saturation of near-term capacity under existing vehicles. Recompete exposure is moderate: five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $22.9 million in combined potential value, representing manageable but meaningful recompete-opportunity for competitors — notably the Army document management contract at Yuma Proving Ground ($649,874, expiring September 2025) and the BLM Region 3 orphaned-well contract ($1.465 billion ceiling, expiring September 2027) both face renewal windows.

Across SCI-reported federal service contracts (the subset of federal revenue above the $150,000 reporting threshold), North Wind invoiced $14.8 million from FY2022 through FY2025, with FY2025 showing the highest invoiced volume at $5 million across 16.7 FTEs. FY2023 was the peak FTE year at 21.6 FTEs delivering $4.4 million in invoiced services. Government-paid hourly rates on North Wind's SCI-reportable prime service contracts span a wide range — 10th percentile at $41.10 per hour, median at $104.72 per hour, and 90th percentile at $864.92 per hour — reflecting a mix of labor categories from entry-level support staff to senior technical and project management roles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 6% of total contractor hours, with only one named subcontractor reported, indicating North Wind predominantly self-performs its federal service work rather than building delivery through subcontractors.

The source identifies two federal contract sub-awards: a July 2025 sub-award for the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract (LLCC) Pit 8 feasibility study phase 1, and a January 2024 sub-award under the same LLCC for site characterization, environmental remediation, and waste management at solid waste management units and areas of concern in the Chaquehui Canyon Aggregate Area at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Both appear to be performance under a prime's contract vehicle rather than North Wind serving as the parent; the parent structure block identifies Ciri Development Corporation as North Wind's parent entity.

North Wind Site Services is an SBA certified 8(a) firm and an Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise, has approximately 160 technical personnel and 26 offices across the US from Fairbanks, AK to Greenville, SC to Honolulu. Technical capabilities and past performance include CERCLA, RCRA, TSCA regulatory compliance and permitting, PFAS and emerging contaminant investigation and remediation, RI/FS, soil and groundwater remediation, risk assessment, long-term operation, monitoring, and maintenance, mine site inventory and reclamation, GIS and records management, modeling, hazmat characterization and abatement, radiological characterization, waste management, demolition, and community engagement and public involvement.