Category: Corporate

In recognition of Veterans Day and Tribal Heritage Month, we offer this article that appears in the current edition of Tribal Gaming & Hospitality magazine.

Pictured left to right: Chris Carter, Brady Scott, Doug Wells and Erik Sell
Interview by Christine Faria with Tribal One’s Erik Sell, Senior Vice President, United States Air Force, retired; Dr. Douglas Wells, Business Development Executive, United States Air Force, retired, Chris Carter, Regional Director of Construction and Business Development, United States Air Force, retired, and Brady Scott, CEO, Tribal One Development and Coquille Tribal Member.

In honor of Veterans Day, TG&H spoke with members of Tribal One, the Mith-ih-Kwuh Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), a federally-chartered corporation that is 100% owned by the Coquille Indian Tribe in Oregon.

Tribal One has been a successful entity since 2011 with a diverse team including several military veterans. We took the opportunity to chat with a few of their leaders about their success and the synergies these military veterans have found working for a Tribe.

Read the full article here.

By the September 30 close of the federal fiscal year, Tribal One wrapped up a record-breaking year for its federal contracting efforts. A strong FY2020, set the stage for a FY2021 that saw Tribal One expand into new markets, open new offices, create new companies and add new customers.

“Our government contracting program has followed a very deliberate growth strategy that has allowed us to gain experience and understanding of the very complicated federal market,” said Tribal One CEO Judy Duffy. “With this knowledge, we have been able to match our growth to market demands in order to build our value as a financial and employment resource for the Tribe.”

With eight years of experience in the government market, Tribal One’s Colorado team embarked on an expansion strategy. First, Tribal One added two new companies focused on technology and architecture and engineering, as well as two new mentor-protégé joint ventures. Next, the company added new offices in Charleston, S.C. and Columbia, Md. The new offices allow Tribal One’s construction venture to seek government work in Mid Atlantic and Southeastern states.

This well researched strategy paid off as the four Tribal One companies (Tribal One Broadband Technologies, Construction, Architecture & Engineering and Technology) won 30 projects estimated at over $30 million under Department of Defense and civilian agency contracts. Project value ranged from $10,000 to over $7 million.

“We have been able to blend a variety of single project awards with several long-term contracts that bring a steady stream of Task Order projects to our companies,” said Brady Scott, general manager of T1 Development, which oversees the Colorado companies. “This blend of government awards keeps our team members very busy working on projects throughout the United States and creates a solid opportunity to provide a return to the Tribe.”

Those contracts include work for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Districts, General Services Administration, National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Space Force, U.S Air Force, U.S. Army, the State of Oregon and the Oregon Department of Transportation.

Meanwhile, in North Bend the Tribal One Professional Services (TOPS) team completed the federal fiscal year with two new, multi-year contracts for communications and administrative services to add to their ongoing work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Portland. New work for T1 Services includes a Tribal Outreach and Communications project for the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products and to provide administrative services for nine USDA offices in Mississippi.

“Our professional services firm is just in its second year of government contracting and experiencing an earlier stage of the same growth strategy,” said Judy Duffy, who also serves as general manager for TOPS. “Our USDA award for work in Mississippi is a direct result of our success in Portland. As we have seen with our older businesses, success breeds success.”

In addition to their work for federal agencies, TOPS again was asked to provide financial services to the Oregon Council for the Arts. TOPS also added to its services for the Coquille Indian Tribe providing security services on the Tribe’s reservation housing property and staffing for the Tribe’s Ko-Kwel Wellness Center in Eugene.

“Our Tribal One family of businesses achieved coast-to-coast success with federal Department of Defense and civilian agencies during this fiscal year,” Duffy said. “Whether you are in the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain Front Range, the mid-Atlantic Coast or the Deep South, Tribal One team members are getting the job done and helping government agencies achieve their goals.”

As a business entity of the Coquille Indian Tribe, Tribal One is proud to honor the traditions and continuing contributions of our nation’s indigenous people.

Those traditions are evident among our Tribal One family of businesses where the Coquille Tribal values of community well-being, equitable opportunities, environmental stewardship and the Potlatch tradition of sharing guide our everyday actions.

On this Veterans Day, Tribal One honors all who have served in the defense of our nation. And we are proud of those veterans who continue to serve our public agencies as members of the Tribal One team.

Today, nearly half (46.3%) of our team members supporting government customers are military veterans, including nearly 70% working on Department of Defense contracts. Veterans fill key positions in the field and in our highest management offices.

Tribal One takes great pride in supporting members of the military as they fulfill their mission and providing career opportunities when they complete their service.

Happy Veterans Day.

Tribal One’s efforts in the government contracting sector showed significant growth in the last federal fiscal year as its businesses continue to demonstrate their value to agency customers.

Tribal One Broadband Technologies and Tribal One Construction finished a record-setting year with a total of seven contracts awarded at year end.

“Our construction and technology teams have demonstrated a competence and a determination to deliver results that routinely exceed the expectations of our customers,” said Tribal One Development General Manager Brady Scott. “This body of work helped bring direct awards from four new clients in the Pacific Northwest to complete a stellar year for our team members.”

Those new federal customers included the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Seattle District, who awarded Tribal One a contract for a Telecommunications Construction project at Mud Mountain Dam – a flood control dam protecting the lower White and Puyallup River Valleys.

In addition to the Seattle District, Tribal One began work for USACE Alaska District at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.  Tribal One’s new Pacific Northwest Team, based in Oregon, hit the ground running in their first full year of operation with a cable plant upgrade that will bring the USACE Alaska District Headquarters into compliance with IEEE/ANSI/EIA/TIA standards. The project involves multiple buildings and affects over 300 personnel.

The Oregon team also secured Tribal One’s first contract with the U.S. Coast Guard and another with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Northwest Office to replace the HVAC at the Warm Springs Detention Center.

Tribal One’s Colorado-based team secured construction contracts with Rocky Mountain National Park and paving contracts at Fort Carson Colorado.

Meanwhile, Tribal One Professional Services, based at the Tribal One corporate office, began work on its first federal contract providing accounting staffing for the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service offices in Oregon. The contract places yet another Tribal One business on the path to further success.

“In a year that has created tremendous challenges for businesses of all types, our government contracting teams were able to find new opportunities with new customers in new locations,” said Tribal One CEO Judy Duffy. “While creating a great year of growth in 2020, Tribal One, with new teams and new businesses, has set a path for continued growth in 2021 and beyond.”

Tribal One is among six firms to earn a place on a potential seven-year, $200 million contract to provide construction and maintenance services to the U.S. Air Force. The contract focuses on projects aimed at promoting transportation safety and efficiency.

Tribal One will be participating as part of a joint venture with Avery Asphalt of Denver, Colorado. The six awardees were selected from among 14 offers through a competitive acquisition process

Under this Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), firm-fixed-price contract, the six contractors will compete for task orders to build and maintain roadways, bridges, airfields, runways and parking areas at five military air bases and the U.S. Air Force Academy, according to the Department of Defense.

The contract was awarded by the 50^th Contracting Squadron, which operates from Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado.