United South & Eastern Tribes Inc.

United South & Eastern Tribes Inc. (USET), a tribally owned, minority-owned non-profit organization headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, acts as a prime recipient on federal grants funding public health, environmental infrastructure, and natural resources technical assistance for 33 federally recognized Tribal Nations across the Eastern United States—from the Northeastern Woodlands to the Everglades and Gulf of Mexico. USET operates nearly entirely as a grant recipient (98% of recent awards) with minimal contract or subcontract exposure, competing under no set-aside designation across a diversified portfolio of federal agencies.

USET's capability footprint centers on tribal health infrastructure development, environmental compliance and remediation, workforce development, and climate resilience. The Indian Health Service dominates USET's funding profile, anchoring 23 awards (19% of total award count) with $1.4 million in combined potential value and spanning diabetes prevention program support, tribal epidemiology center operations, dental service delivery enhancement, and public health systems strengthening. USET has operated the Dental Support Center in Nashville since 2005, delivering oral health education, continuing dental education, and portable dental equipment access to tribal clinics across the IHS Nashville Area. Recent grant work includes a $430,000 five-year Health Management Development Program (CFDA 93.228) award effective December 2025 from IHS to expand the Dental Support Center's preventive and treatment services, and a five-year Cooperative Agreement under the Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country initiative (CFDA unspecified) awarded September 2024 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where USET serves as the Tribal Coordinating Center to coordinate peer-to-peer learning and national evaluation across all GHWIC recipients. EPA Region 4 has awarded USET $2.118 million under the Voluntary School and Child Care Lead Testing and Reduction Grant Program (CFDA 66.444) effective October 2025 through September 2029 to implement comprehensive lead remediation at schools and childcare centers in tribal communities, including subawards of $100,000 to tribal partners for lead testing activities. The Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service awarded USET $2.027 million under the Water and Waste Technical Assistance and Training Grants program (CFDA 10.761) in April 2024 to provide technical assistance and training on water and waste disposal infrastructure in rural tribal communities.

The top five customer agencies account for 49% of recent award volume: the Indian Health Service leads with 23 awards; the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Office each place 10 awards; the Rural Utilities Service places 9 awards; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention places 6 awards. USET's obligation record ($198.3 million obligated against $2.6 million in combined potential value across all awards) reflects long-standing, multi-year cooperative agreements and project grants with annual funding profiles that substantially exceed published ceiling values—a pattern typical of mature tribal technical assistance recipients whose grant awards renew cyclically.

USET holds positions on two Blanket Purchase Agreements under the Indian Health Service—HHSI285201100007B (5 task orders, $592 thousand combined potential value) and 140A1523A0001 (2 task orders, $5 thousand combined potential value)—through which it places ancillary work. A single contract vehicle exists: a $100,000 BPA with the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Region for Tribal-Interior Budget Council travel reimbursement services, awarded July 2023 and extending through June 2028, under which USET has issued two task orders as of the source date.

USET's award activity has moderated in recent years—eight awards in 2021, declining to two in 2025—but represents sustained multi-decade engagement with federal health and environmental programs targeting tribal capacity. Six awards (unspecified combined potential value) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore stand for recompete. The organization's federal footprint is almost exclusively grant and cooperative-agreement work, with award concentration among health agencies and very limited subcontract participation (2% of awards).