CDC placed $2 million with an Anchorage firm without competition

A company owned by a Bristol Bay village corporation will spend the next year helping run the office that keeps the United States ready for Ebola. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention placed two contracts worth $2,044,976 with Eagle Health Analytics, LLC without competition, both starting Sept. 21.

The larger order, $1,498,675, supports the director's office at the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, the unit that coordinates what happens if an Ebola case arrives in the country. The second, $546,301, is for Ebola response support specifically. All of the work is at CDC headquarters in Atlanta.

Eagle Health Analytics is a small firm doing narrow, technical work: public health, military medicine, infectious disease and emergency response. Its stated capabilities run to clinical research, diagnostics, genomic profiling, next-generation sequencing support and the management of large biomedical datasets, alongside public health communication and program administration.

It belongs to Bristol Bay Native Corporation, the regional corporation created for southwest Alaska under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971, whose stated mission is enriching the Native way of life and protecting land in Bristol Bay. Eagle Health sits inside BBNC's government services group with roughly twenty sister companies working in construction, industrial services and tourism. Money the CDC pays for Ebola readiness in Atlanta ends up on the books of a corporation whose shareholders live in southwest Alaska.

That is possible because firms owned by Alaska Native corporations can take sole-source federal contracts without the dollar ceiling that applies to other 8(a) disadvantaged businesses. Both of these orders are task orders under a five-year contract the CDC awarded in September 2023 as an 8(a) sole-source set-aside, with one offer received and a $25 million ceiling.

The larger order is a renewal. The CDC has bought the same support under the same vehicle every year since 2023, most recently at $1,455,921 in 2025, so this year's is about 3 percent higher. The company's business with the agency is growing beyond it: in June it took a separate CDC contract worth roughly $15.9 million for laboratory, epidemiology and administrative support, also sole-source, running through 2030.