Federal contractor · TAHLEQUAH, OK

CHEROKEE NATION

CHEROKEE NATION received $10M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+75% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $87.4M. Its largest customer was Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management ($9.9M). It also received $886.5M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$10M
New awards
3
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the CHEROKEE NATION MANAGEMENT & CONSULTING, L.L.C.. company family: 36 registered entities, $510.9M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. CHEROKEE NATION MANAGEMENT & CONSULTING, L.L.C..TULSA, OK · Family page
    $1.3M
  2. CHEROKEE NATION STRATEGIC PROGRAMS, L.L.C.TULSA, OK
    $122.4M
  3. CHEROKEE STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS, L.L.C.TULSA, OK
    $84.3M
  4. CHEROKEE NATION INTEGRATED HEALTH, L.L.C.TULSA, OK
    $56.3M
  5. CHEROKEE NATION SOLUTIONS LINK, L.L.C.TULSA, OK
    $36.5M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 12.3MFY2017
  2. 3.6MFY2018
  3. 13.3MFY2019
  4. 3.4MFY2020
  5. 10.6MFY2021
  6. 13.1MFY2022
  7. 7.7MFY2023
  8. 7.7MFY2024
  9. 5.7MFY2025
  10. 10MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management$9.9M99.7%
    1 awards
  2. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$33K0.3%
    1 awards
  3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$9.9M99.7%
  2. Professional services$33K0.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cherokee County, OK$10M100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $10M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $10M
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$33K
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. AWARD FOR THE TALKING LEAVES JOB CORPS CENTER WITH OUTREACH AND ADMISSIONS AND CAREER TRANSITION SERVICES$21.2M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management· Cherokee County, OK· Education & social services· Jul 31, 2024 – Aug 28, 2026· 1605JW24C0005
  2. FY 2026 TERO CHEROKEE NATION$33K
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission· Cherokee County, OK· Professional services· Jun 9, 2026 – Jun 9, 2026· 45310026C0153
  3. NM-ARD-EXTRNL AFFRS OKLAHOMA INTER-TRIBA$16.5K
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service· Cherokee County, OK· Professional services· Mar 21, 2024 – Jun 3, 2026· 140FS224P0160

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

CHEROKEE NATION received $886.5M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 444 actions (77 new awards), +32% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.210 · Tribal Self-Governance Program: Ihs Compacts/Funding Agreements ($545.6M).

Assistance · FY2026
$886.5M
New awards
77
Actions
444
Since FY2021
$6.8B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 3.3BFY2021
  2. 639.9MFY2022
  3. 671MFY2023
  4. 695.3MFY2024
  5. 669.3MFY2025
  6. 886.5MFY2026
  7. 6.8MFY2027

By type

  1. Direct payments$691.7M78%
  2. Grants$194.8M22%

Top programs

  1. 93.210 · Tribal Self-Governance Program: Ihs Compacts/Funding Agreements$545.6M62%
  2. 15.022 · Tribal Self-Governance$134.5M15%
  3. 14.867 · Indian Housing Block Grants$53.1M6.0%
  4. 20.205 · Highway Planning and Construction$39.8M4.5%
  5. 20.289 · Tribal Transportation Program (TTP)$19M2.1%
  6. 93.600 · Head Start$11.4M1.3%
  7. 93.237 · Special Diabetes Program for Indians Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Projects$9.4M1.1%
  8. 10.557 · WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children$8.1M0.9%

Awarding agencies

  1. Indian Health Service$559.8M63%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$148M17%
    Department of the Interior
  3. Federal Highway Administration$58.9M6.6%
    Department of Transportation
  4. Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing$55M6.2%
    Department of Housing and Urban Development
  5. Administration for Children and Families$27.7M3.1%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  6. Food and Nutrition Service$16.2M1.8%
    Department of Agriculture
  7. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration$11.1M1.3%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  8. Office of Justice Programs$2.7M0.3%
    Department of Justice

Largest awards

  1. SELF-GOVERNANCE$4.9B
    93.210 · Tribal Self-Governance Program: Ihs Compacts/Funding Agreements· Indian Health Service· Direct payment for specified use· Oct 30, 2020 – Sep 18, 2026· 60G930002
  2. INDIAN HSG BLOCK GR$599.8M
    14.867 · Indian Housing Block Grants· Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing· Formula grant· Apr 14, 2021 – Apr 24, 2026· 55IT4005780
  3. SELF-GOVERNANCE COMPACTS FY 2025 CR1 (@22.19%) TPA BASE DISTRIBUTION.$151.5M
    15.022 · Tribal Self-Governance· Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Direct payment for specified use· Nov 6, 2024 – Sep 18, 2026· A25AV00026
  4. SELF-GOVERNANCE COMPACTS FY 2026 CR1 (@33.42%) TPA BASE DISTRIBUTION.$130.4M
    15.022 · Tribal Self-Governance· Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Direct payment for specified use· Nov 20, 2025 – Sep 16, 2026· A26AV00030
  5. AIAN HEAD START AND EARLY HEAD START$56M
    93.600 · Head Start· Administration for Children and Families· Project grant· Sep 10, 2021 – Sep 9, 2026· 90CI010099
  6. CHEROKEE NATION DIABETES PROGRAM - CHEROKEE NATION IS THE LARGEST FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE WITH APPROXIMATELY 420,952…$32.6M
    93.237 · Special Diabetes Program for Indians Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Projects· Indian Health Service· Cooperative agreement· Dec 19, 2022 – Jul 13, 2026· H1D4IHS0183

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2021–FY2027.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $2.2M (1 subaward)

1 sub-recipient

  1. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CHEROKEE NATION OF OKLAHOMA$2.2M100%
    TAHLEQUAH, OK · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $1.5M (8 subawards)

4 primes

  1. UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA$658.3K45%
    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · 4 subawards
  2. OK DEPT OF EDUCATION$394.6K27%
    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · 1 subaward
  3. OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION$216.8K15%
    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · 1 subaward
  4. EMORY UNIVERSITY$205.5K14%
    ATLANTA, GA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $26.7M paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2022: $34.4M paid out · $1M received
  • FY2023: $56.6M paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2024: $30.6M paid out · $1M received
  • FY2025: $32.1M paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2026: $2.2M paid out · $1.5M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

338 companies · $1.5B reported

  1. AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC.$185.6M
    BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward · Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services
  2. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CHEROKEE NATION OF OKLAHOMA$150.6M
    TAHLEQUAH, OK · 145 subawards
  3. GDH CONSULTING INC$83.3M
    TULSA, OK · 4 subawards · Office administrative services

Primes that pay it

32 companies · $65.7M reported

  1. CF2 CONSTRUCTION$23M
    TULSA, OK · 2 subawards · Nonresidential building construction
  2. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION$12M
    BETHESDA, MD · 16 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. LUKOS, LLC$5M
    TAMPA, FL · 2 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 180 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. TETRA TECH, INC.$2.3B−53% in FY2026
    PASADENA, CA · 95 entities · 20% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesAir Force · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesArmy · Architectural, engineering, and related services+8 more
  2. RELIANCE TEST & TECHNOLOGY, LLC$587.7M−25% in FY2026
    CRESTVIEW, FL · 12% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. CREDENCE DYNAMO SOLUTIONS LLC$367.2M−26% in FY2026
    VIENNA, VA · 11% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesU.S. Coast Guard · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesArmy · Architectural, engineering, and related services+2 more

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of CHEROKEE NATION MANAGEMENT & CONSULTING, L.L.C.. (36 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Cherokee NationAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$1.1M
20 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$2.4M

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$360K
    16 reports
  2. 2024$360K
    16 reports
  3. 2025$1.1M
    20 reports
  4. 2026$600K
    9 reports

Top issues

  1. Indian and Native American affairs26 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES26 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE26 reports
  3. Interior - Dept of (DOI)24 reports
  4. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)14 reports
  5. Indian Health Service7 reports
  6. Transportation - Dept of (DOT)7 reports
  7. White House Office2 reports
  8. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.$1.3M
    14 reports
  2. Steptoe LLP$640K
    6 reports
  3. RAGNAR GROUP LLC$480K
    6 reports
  4. DiNino Associates, LLC$0
    15 reports
  5. JENNER & BLOCK LLP$0
    12 reports
  6. Venable LLP$0
    8 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.