Confederated Tribes Of Colville Reservation

The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, doing business as The Colville Confederated Tribes, is a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Nespelem, Washington that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor for specialized services tied to their 1.4 million-acre aboriginal territory in northeast Washington, serving over 9,000 tribal members. The tribe competes full-and-open across most of its grant and contract work, with no set-asides applied to recent awards, reflecting their sole-source competitive qualifications in cultural resource management, environmental monitoring, infrastructure support, and community services.

The tribe's federal revenue portfolio centers on three capability clusters. First, cultural resource and archaeological services dominate the contract footprint: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded two Indefinite Delivery Contracts (one valued at $1.2 million through February 2030, another at $2.586 million through September 2028) for professional services managing historic properties of religious and cultural significance within their territory, including shoreline monitoring, archaeological site assessments, traditional cultural property inventories, and technical reporting at Chief Joseph Dam, Rufus Woods Lake, and associated Columbia River facilities. The tribe also holds sole-source purchase orders from the Corps for archaeological artifact curation ($275 thousand, April 2026 through March 2029), cultural resource management at Chief Joseph Dam ($41 thousand, completed December 2026), and shoreline monitoring at Lower Monumental Dam ($39.6 thousand, January 2027 completion). Second, environmental and water quality programs span multiple agencies: the Bureau of Reclamation funded burial site inspection and recovery services ($923 thousand, option year 2 exercised April 2024 through February 2029), aquatic invasive species monitoring on Lake Roosevelt and Lake Rufus Woods ($144.5 thousand, October 2025 through December 2026), and curation services ($108 thousand base year through August 2030). The Environmental Protection Agency provided grants for brownfields assessment and remediation ($305.9 thousand annually for multiple cycles), water quality monitoring and transboundary mining pollution assessment ($350 thousand plus $190.2 thousand in subawards through EPA Region 10), and air quality monitoring expansion under the Inflation Reduction Act. Third, grant-funded community services and infrastructure span health, nutrition, justice, transportation, and broadband: the Confederated Tribes received $5.095 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant funding (October 2025 through September 2026), $2.455 million for child support enforcement services (October 2025 through September 2026), $1.025 million for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP, October 2025 through September 2027), $1 million for a co-occurring disorder healing-to-wellness court focused on substance abuse and mental health (Bureau of Justice Assistance, October 2025 through September 2030), $546.3 thousand for a tribal youth diversion program (October 2025 through September 2030), and $19.18 million for a pilot broadband deployment to Nespelem (November 2024 through November 2026).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Indian Health Service and federal infrastructure agencies. The top five funding sources by award count include the Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service (330 awards, $4 million combined potential value), the Army Corps of Engineers (76 awards across two organizational units, $15.3 million combined), the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation (40 awards, $8.5 million), the Administration for Community Living (41 awards), and the Administration for Children and Families (38 awards). However, by potential dollar value, GSA Public Buildings Service Central Office dominates with $34.8 million across 15 awards—reflecting a concentration of real property lease vehicles. This divergence signals that the tribe places many small service orders to IHS clinics while anchoring substantial dollars in real estate lease agreements with GSA. Recent grant activity shows 12 awards in 2026 year-to-date, down from 41 in 2025 and 58 in 2024, reflecting seasonal award cycles and the timing of formula grant renewals.

The tribe's parent contract vehicles include a Basic Ordering Agreement (GS10B06637) with 94 task orders generating $44.1 million combined potential value, and five Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) with Indian Health Service carrying 152, 62, 52, and 45 task orders respectively. These vehicles distribute primarily across IHS health services, GSA real property leasing, and Corps of Engineers cultural resource work. Category concentration reveals that the tribe operates across water infrastructure (159 awards in water and sewer line construction), telecommunications (121 awards in wired carrier services), real property leasing (95 awards in nonresidential building rental), waste management (63 awards in solid waste collection), and tribal government operations (52 awards). Top procurement service codes include IT and telecommunications (86 awards), construction of sewage and waste facilities (73 awards), archaeological and paleontological studies (71 awards), utilities (42 awards), and office building leases (41 awards).

The award portfolio spans 1,063 prime awards (93% of total activity) and 80 subawards (7%), with $675.3 million in obligated dollars against $93.8 million in combined potential value—a 720% ratio indicating heavy reordering and exercising of option years on standing agreements. The tribe acts as a subrecipient on Washington State grants administered through the Superintendent of Public Instruction (child nutrition programs), the Washington State Department of Health (WIC client services, behavioral health coordination, emergency preparedness), the Department of Social and Human Services (elder nutrition, COVID-19 vaccination outreach), the Military Department (FEMA disaster recovery), and the Health Care Authority (behavioral health services). Salmon restoration and species reintroduction work flows through NOAA and the Bureau of Reclamation, with the tribe participating in the Upper Columbia United Tribes coalition and executing projects such as trapping and hauling Chinook and sockeye above Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams (November 2024 through June 2027, $747.1 thousand) and evaluating kokanee and burbot health in Lake Roosevelt (March 2025 through February 2029). Forty-six awards carrying $1 million combined potential value reach completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting moderate recompete exposure concentrated in formula grants and smaller service task orders rather than major infrastructure or program vehicles. The tribe is a child entity under parent Colville Confederated Tribes Inc. and operates as both a service provider to federal agencies and a grant recipient channeling federal investment into tribal community programs, environmental stewardship, and infrastructure development across the Colville Reservation.