Seneca Cayuga Tribe Ofoklahoma

Seneca Cayuga Tribe Ofoklahoma, doing business as Tribal Enterprises, operates as a federally recognized Native American tribal government delivering fire suppression services, social and health services, and environmental programs to federal agencies and tribal communities as a prime grant and contract recipient. The tribe competes without set-aside designations across federal grant programs and holds a single-award blanket purchase agreement for fire suppression with the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Oklahoma Region.

Tribal Enterprises' federal footprint is almost entirely grant-driven, reflecting the tribe's role as a direct recipient of formula and discretionary federal assistance rather than a traditional federal contractor. The tribe has received 351 prime awards across contracts and grants since 1990, with a recent activity profile dominated by social service, child care, aging services, environmental, and public safety grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Recent contract work centers on fire suppression services delivered under a $250,000 BPA with the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Oklahoma Region (awarded December 2022, running through March 2028), with monthly task orders for emergency fire response in Grove, Oklahoma at $800 per call. Representative fire suppression task orders include a February 2024 order for one call ($800), an October 2024 order for three calls ($2,400), an August 2025 order for five calls ($4,000), and a May 2026 order for four calls ($3,200).

The tribe's grant portfolio spans aging services, child care development, violence prevention and victim services, environmental capacity building, and tribal infrastructure. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Oklahoma Region accounts for 29 awards with a combined potential value of $286 thousand, driven by recurring fire suppression calls. The Department of Health and Human Services is the dominant grantor by award count, with 99 awards across the Administration for Children and Families, the Administration on Aging, and the Office of Child Care supporting child care subsidies, nutrition services for Native American elders, family violence prevention, and child welfare services. Recent major grants include a $4.8 million Child Care and Development Block Grant Discretionary award (October 2025 through September 2028), a $887,242 Violence Against Women discretionary grant continuation for legal services, collaborative law enforcement training, and transitional housing (October 2025 through September 2028), $206,840 in Older Americans Act Title VI formula grants for supportive and nutrition services (April 2026 through March 2029), a $521,260 Child Care and Development Fund mandatory and matching award (October 2025 through September 2028), and a $219,853 USDA Forest Service Community Wildfire Defense Grant for hazardous fuel reduction and defensible space development (November 2024 through November 2029). The tribe also holds recurring grants from the Department of Justice for victim crime services (TVSSA, VOCA), from the National Park Service for tribal historic preservation office activities, from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 for water quality monitoring and environmental capacity building, and from HHS for low-income home energy assistance and family violence prevention services.

Awards per year have declined from 18 in both 2022 and 2023 to 9 in 2025 and 5 as of mid-2026. Twenty awards with a combined potential value of $6 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating modest recompete exposure on aging services, child welfare, and fire suppression renewals. The tribe operates solely as a prime recipient; no subcontract awards appear in the source. Tribal Enterprises' customer concentration reflects the federal grant system's structure: the tribe serves 29 distinct agencies, with the Department of the Interior's Eastern Oklahoma Region and the Department of Health and Human Services generating the majority of recent transactional volume.