WHAT IS A TRIBAL CORPORATION?

Indian reservations suffer from some of the worst poverty in this country, with unemployment levels in excess of 60%. For example, a recent federal study found that the area of the country with the lowest life expectancy in the country was not an urban ghetto but an Indian reservation. Because of the lack of resources, there is little individual entrepreneurship on reservations. Instead, the Indian tribal governments have the primary responsibility for promoting economic development. On the premise that it is both appropriate and necessary to use the federal government’s massive procurement activity to help jump-start reservation economies, Congress has given tribes unique rights in the federal procurement process. These rights provide the federal agencies and federal contractors with strong incentives to contract with tribal firms. Such as:

Eligible to receive sole source 8(a) contracts regardless of dollar size, with no upper limit.

Direct Conversion: The average A-76 study takes 23 months. One of the few options open to a DOD command that wants to contract out a function but avoid the cumbersome A-76 process is to award the contract to a tribal 8(a) firm.

Sole Source procurements may not be protested.

5% Subcontracting Bonus to a DOD prime that subcontracts with a tribal entity. The Defense Appropriations Act annually provides $8 million for this program.

WTC is a diverse corporation. Our strength is in the companies we own and the values by which we do business. We know the importance of preserving our culture and traditions, and how important it is to make good decisions about the use of our resources – to show responsibility to our Tribe and our Community.

Our family of companies offers Information Technology, Telecommunications & Professional products and services to government and commercial customers locally and nationwide. We also offer several services to the residents of Wyandotte, Oklahoma to support the growing community.

Our mission is to carry out the purpose of the 1937 federal corporate charter of the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma.