The National Center For American Indian Enterprise Development

The National Center For American Indian Enterprise Development, doing business as United Indian Development Assn, is a Mesa, Arizona-based Native American-owned nonprofit organization that provides federal contracting technical assistance, business development counseling, and procurement training to Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian small businesses and tribal economic development programs exclusively as a federal grant recipient (100% of recent awards). The organization operates as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity with minority-owned and American Indian-owned business classifications, delivering services under cooperative agreements and project grants from federal agencies focused on Native American economic development and supply chain diversity.

NCAIED's grant portfolio concentrates on two core capability areas: procurement technical assistance delivery through APEX Accelerator centers and targeted business development for Native American microenterprises. Recent representative grant work includes a $1.248 million Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002, awarded April 2026 through March 2027) to establish and operate an APEX Accelerator in Mesa providing free counseling, training, and federal contracting guidance to businesses of all sizes with emphasis on underserved and diverse enterprises; a $794,651 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under Native American Programs (CFDA 93.612, awarded September 2025 through September 2028) for the "Native Edge: Tribal Economic Accelerator" initiative delivering procurement capacity-building to 300 tribal leaders and one-on-one technical assistance to 75 Native-owned businesses; a $1.518 million Cooperative Agreement from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.032, July 2024 through July 2029) supporting technical assistance, entrepreneurial training, and the Reservation Economic Summit to promote Native American business competitiveness; and a $238,662 Project Grant from the Small Business Administration's 7(j) Technical Assistance program (CFDA 59.007, September 2024 through September 2025) providing management and technical assistance to small disadvantaged businesses in the 8(a) Business Development Program.

Customer concentration sits with federal business development and minority enterprise agencies. The top five funding entities account for 52% of recent awards by count, led by the Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (12 awards) and the Defense Logistics Agency (9 awards), followed by the Small Business Administration Office of Government Contracting and Business Development (8 awards), the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs (7 awards, $170 thousand combined potential value), and the Environmental Protection Agency (5 awards, $57 thousand combined potential value). By potential value, the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs ranks highest at $170 thousand across 7 awards, with the Department of Energy contributing $158 thousand across 5 awards. NCAIED's primary service categories span Other Management Consulting Services (17 awards), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (7 awards), and Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (5 awards). The organization has received two federal contract purchases orders totaling $44,500 from the General Services Administration for summit kiosk sponsorship and registration support (March 2024 and May 2022). With seventy-nine total awards in recent portfolio history and only one award reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months, NCAIED faces minimal recompete exposure. The organization operates without subcontract work — all awards are prime federal grant relationships — and sits on no parent IDIQs or GWACs.