Tribal Self-Governance - Negotiation

The Tribal Self-Governance - Negotiation opportunity is a forecasted federal cooperative agreement opportunity administered by the Indian Health Service within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The opportunity is identified as HHS-2027-IHS-TSGN-0001 and is associated with Assistance Listing 93.00E, Tribal Self-Governance Negotiation Cooperative Agreement Program. The funding activity category identified by Grants.gov is Health. The opportunity was forecasted on August 6, 2026, and the information was last updated on August 6, 2026. Because the opportunity is currently a forecast rather than a posted funding announcement, some application and award details have not yet been supplied. The Tribal Self-Governance - Negotiation cooperative agreement is intended to support tribes and tribal organizations in their efforts to plan and prepare for assuming responsibility for providing health care to their members through the Tribal Self-Governance Program. The Indian Health Service states that it intends to issue three awards under the program announcement. The estimated total program funding is 252,000 dollars. The forecast does not provide an award ceiling or award floor, so individual award amounts cannot yet be determined from the available information. No cost sharing or matching requirement applies to this opportunity. Eligible applicants include Native American tribal governments that are federally recognized and Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments. The additional eligibility information describes eligible entities as tribes and tribal organizations. No state, county, city, or other sub-state geographic limitation is identified in the forecast. The forecast does not provide additional organizational qualifications, capacity requirements, exclusions, or other eligibility conditions beyond the identified tribal applicant categories. The source describes the overall purpose as planning and preparation for participation in the Tribal Self-Governance Program, but it does not provide detailed allowable or prohibited spending rules, budget restrictions, indirect cost limitations, subaward restrictions, required application narratives, forms, attachments, evaluation criteria, scoring criteria, or other application components. Those details may become available when the Indian Health Service posts the full opportunity. No letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating requirement is identified in the forecast. No complete additional-information URL or direct PDF URL is provided in the supplied source. The estimated posting date is February 1, 2027, which is treated as the anticipated application opening date based on the currently available forecast information. The estimated application due date is April 1, 2027. Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on that date. The estimated award date is June 1, 2027, and the estimated project start date is also June 1, 2027. The opportunity is for fiscal year 2027. The source does not state that the opportunity is rolling, annual, biennial, or otherwise recurring, so no recurrence or future-cycle date is established from the supplied information. Questions regarding the opportunity may be directed to the Indian Health Service Division of Grants Management at dgm@ihs.gov or 301-443-5204. No individual grantor contact is named. Because this is a forecasted opportunity, prospective applicants should recognize that the currently listed posting date, application deadline, award date, project start date, funding information, and other forecast details are estimates. The supplied forecast does not yet contain submission instructions beyond the electronic application deadline, nor does it identify application questions, review criteria, previous recipients, or a stated period of performance.