The Albuquerque Area Indian Health Service Division of Contracts and Grants Management will be hosting a virtual Small Business Indian hour every two weeks to allow Small Businesses an opportunity to market their company to the Acquisition team of the Albuquerque Area IHS.

During this hour, four (4) small businesses will be allotted 15 minutes each to market the capabilities of their small business to the acquisition team (Contracting Officers, CORs and Purchase Card holders) of the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Service. Our Small Business Hour is an ongoing effort to increase procurements amongst our small businesses. We do understand that 15 minutes is not a lot of time, but every one of our CORs, Buyers and Purchase Card holders are diligently working on addressing Acquisitions in response to COVID-19 for their perspective service unit.

If you are interested in attending, please contact Shannon Eldridge-Shorty at shannon.eldridge-shorty@ihs.gov. with a date and time that works for you (Thursday only, every other week at 10 am) and also provide the documents you would like to share with our Acquisition team which we will present during the scheduled time frame. You will be allowed 15 minutes to market your small business. We ask the first 10 minutes be dedicated to an overview of your organization and 5 minutes for any Q&A that our acquisition team may have.

Should you have any questions or comments, please feel free to ask and we will do my best to assist.