Right. Just definitionally, it would seem that the definition of “fraud” is misrepresenting the facts in some way in order to achieve a commercial advantage. It's pretending something is true when it's not in order to achieve a commercial advantage.
You have a company that pretended to be indigenous-owned when it wasn't indigenous-owned. The purpose of that pretense was clearly to increase its chances of getting government contracts that it wouldn't have otherwise gotten. Is that fraud?