Ounalashka Corporation

Ounalashka Corporation, doing business as Ounalashka Corp, is an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small business based in Unalaska, Alaska, that operates as a federal grant recipient and prime contractor across environmental remediation, community library services, and federal real-estate leasing programs. The vendor is minority-owned and operates under Alaskan Native Corporation, Native American Owned, and Minority Owned Business designations; it does not hold seats on federal contract vehicles and derives its federal footprint almost entirely from grant awards (99% of recent activity) and small-dollar purchase orders, with no GWAC or IDIQ presence.

Ounalashka's customer concentration is deeply fragmented. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 28% of recent awards, with the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service dominating volume (30 awards across two sub-offices, $855 thousand combined potential value), followed by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (10 awards), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (7 awards), and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 (4 awards). Dollar concentration diverges from volume: GSA's $855 thousand (49% of combined potential value across all customers) is the largest single concentration, but Environmental Protection Agency awards anchor the vendor's largest individual grants. Recent grant work includes a $3.0 million Environmental Protection Agency Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 66.965) for Phase II environmental site assessment and remedial cleanup at the CMA 1 Terminal Barge Dock in Unalaska, running through December 31, 2027; a $2.0 million EPA Brownfields Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 66.818) for cleanup of the Strawberry Hill Landfill Asbestos Waste Cell site, running through September 30, 2028; and a $5.8 million EPA Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 66.818) for inventory, characterization, and assessment of 24 Phase I and 15 Phase II environmental site assessments across three contaminated zones in Unalaska, running through September 30, 2028. On the library side, Ounalashka has received three consecutive Project Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA not specified) for Native American Library Services, each spanning one fiscal year (most recent award August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026), supporting acquisition of library materials, staff training, and community programming. A single NOAA purchase order for equipment storage services at the National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement in Dutch Harbor (set-aside for total small business, $19,800 ceiling, ultimate completion September 30, 2030) represents the only named federal contract prime award in the recent source data.

Activity has remained flat across the past five years — two awards in 2021, three in 2023, four in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026 — with only three awards reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure. Combined potential value across all 180 awards in the source data is $1.9 million, but combined dollars obligated total $10.9 million (579% of potential value), indicating that historical obligation substantially exceeds stated ceilings, a pattern typical of multi-year grants with rollforward funding and real-property leases where actual costs exceed initial estimates. The vendor operates one named subsidiary, Ounalashka / Chena Power LLC, designated as an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned firm, Indian Economic Enterprise, Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise, and minority-owned limited liability company. The source shows one grant sub-award: Ounalashka received a sub-grant from Alaska Municipal League (dated January 31, 2024) to support an Energy Ambassador for quarterly outreach on energy projects and online platform reporting. Ounalashka's footprint centers on community-benefit environmental remediation and real-property management for Alaska Native communities, with library services and facility leasing as secondary capability areas, all executed within or for Alaska-based federal agencies and tribal entities.