Alaska Native Corporations (ANC's) are receiving fewer awards this year than in the past years. The reduction is attributed to the sharp drop to new measures installed last year to minimize the volume and size of sole-source contracts to ANCs.

 

ANCs received $4.4 billion in contracts in 2011. About $2.5 billion of that (57%) was awarded through sole-source contracts valued at $20 million or more each, according to federal contract data.

 

This year, the numbers are dramatically lower: $1.8 billion in total obligations for the first three quarters of fiscal 2012. Sole-source contracts valued at $20 million or more each accounted for $587 million, or about 33% vs. 57% in 2011.