Presolicitation
Physician, APP, and Allied Health Professional Staffing Services / Multiple-Award IDIQ / IEE Set-Aside / IHS Billings Area
Department of Health and Human Services · Indian Health Service
AI summaryPresolicitation for multiple-award contracts to supply doctors, advanced practice providers and allied health staff to Indian Health Service facilities in the Billings Area, Montana; only Indian Economic Enterprises (IEEs, Indian-owned businesses the agency has verified) may bid once the solicitation is released, expected on or about November 23, 2026 with about 45 calendar days to respond. The total estimate for all awards combined is $86,090,000 over a 1-year base plus one option year. This notice is not a request for offers. More in the summary
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Presolicitation for multiple-award contracts to supply doctors, advanced practice providers and allied health staff to Indian Health Service facilities in the Billings Area, Montana; only Indian Economic Enterprises (IEEs, Indian-owned businesses the agency has verified) may bid once the solicitation is released, expected on or about November 23, 2026 with about 45 calendar days to respond. The total estimate for all awards combined is $86,090,000 over a 1-year base plus one option year. This notice is not a request for offers.
Who can bid
- Verified as an Indian Economic Enterprise (IEE) under the Buy Indian Act, following the Indian Health Service's verification requirements; this is a 100% IEE set-aside
- Registered in the System for Award Management (SAM), the federal contractor database
How to submit: Not stated; the solicitation and amendments will be posted on SAM.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 14, 2026.
- Serious: Indian Economic Enterprise set-aside. Only businesses verified as Indian Economic Enterprises can submit proposals and receive awards; other businesses cannot bid as prime contractors.
- Worth checking: SAM.gov response date is not an offer due date. SAM.gov lists October 29, 2026, 4:00 PM Mountain, but the notice says proposals are requested only after the solicitation is released, expected on or about November 23, 2026 with about 45 calendar days to respond; all dates may change.
- Worth checking: Wide range of licensed clinicians across many sites. The scope covers 15 clinical roles at facilities across Montana, so a bidder needs credentialed staff for many specialties and locations.
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- Minor: Large multiple-award contract with a minimum to be set later. Awardees compete for individual task orders and the guaranteed minimum is not yet named.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Credentialed healthcare professionals working in person at Indian Health Service hospitals, clinics and health stations in Montana, as part of existing care teams
- Physician specialties: anesthesiologist, emergency medicine, family medicine, general surgeon, hospitalist, internal medicine, OB/GYN, orthopedic, pediatrician, podiatrist
- Advanced and allied staff: certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), midwife, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, respiratory therapist
- Direct patient care, documentation, care coordination and quality assurance work as the facility requires
- Fill urgent and long-term staffing gaps at the Blackfeet, Crow, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck and Northern Cheyenne service units
- Contract type
- Multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ: a contract with orders placed over time) with fixed-price and labor-hour task orders; a minimum is to be named in the solicitation
- Period of performance
- 1 base year plus one 1-year option
- Place of performance
- Indian Health Service Billings Area facilities in Montana: Browning, Heart Butte, Crow Agency, Lodge Grass, Pryor, Harlem, Hays, Poplar, Wolf Point and Lame Deer
- Estimated value
- $86,090,000 for all awards combined, including the base period and one option year
- How they'll choose
- Best-value tradeoff under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 15 (negotiated buys, where price and quality are weighed together)
- Offers due
- October 29, 2026, 4:00 PM Mountain
- How to submit
- Not stated; the solicitation and amendments will be posted on SAM.gov
What to include when you submit
- Nothing is due now: the notice says it is not a request for offers. Follow the notice on SAM.gov for the solicitation and any amendments
Not in the notice text
- The full scope of work, evaluation factors and their importance, proposal format and how to submit are in the solicitation, which is not yet released
- The contract minimum, ordering procedures and any site visit details are to come in the solicitation
- The actual offer due date; the notice says all dates are subject to change
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for Indian economic enterprises: only those can bid as the prime contractor. More open indian economic enterprise set-asides under NAICS 621399
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Not stated; the solicitation and amendments will be posted on SAM.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 14, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- Billings Area Indian Health SVC, MT
- Product/service code
- Q999 · Medical – Other
- Business type
- Medical & healthcare (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 621399)
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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