Colorado National Guard

The Colorado Army National Guard, a sub-agency of the Department of the Army, procures equipment, supplies, and services to support the operational readiness and training of Colorado's military personnel and installations. The organization operates under standard Army acquisition mechanisms and transacts directly with commercial and small-business vendors across Colorado and nationally.

The Colorado Army National Guard has awarded 4,203 federal contracts since 2002, totaling $425.7 million in combined potential value. Recent activity has increased: the organization issued 58 awards in 2022, 71 in 2023, 89 in 2024, 60 in 2025, and 15 year-to-date in 2026. Combined dollars obligated currently exceed potential value at $465.6 million, indicating exercises of options and task-order activity against standing contracts. The most recent award closed on 19 July 2026.

Competition is highly fragmented. Over the last five years, Government Acquisitions LLC leads by award count with 24 awards worth $2.1 million in combined potential value, followed by You & I Caterers, Inc. with 9 awards ($164 thousand) and World Wide Technology LLC with 7 awards ($2.3 million). The top five primes by award count account for only 17 percent of recent awards. By potential value, the concentration is even more dispersed—the top five hold just 2 percent of combined potential value across recent transactions, indicating that the organization conducts business across a broad vendor base without dominant prime-contractor relationships. Across the portfolio lifetime, 1,492 distinct prime contractors have been awarded.

Set-asides favor unrestricted competition: 76 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small business awards account for 20 percent, with 8(a) sole-source and competitive 8(a) together representing 3 percent. Service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone, and women-owned small business set-asides are minimal, each representing less than 1 percent of the award volume.

The Colorado Army National Guard also administers federal grant funding: 117 grant awards totaling $198.9 million in federal dollars obligated have been issued since 2010. Grant activity shows 11 awards in 2021, 14 in 2022, 13 in 2023, 6 in 2024, and 15 in 2025, with the most recent grant award closing on 1 October 2025. All grants are structured as Cooperative Agreements, and all awards over the last five years went to a single recipient: the Colorado Department Of Military And Veterans Affairs, which received 48 awards worth $60.4 million in federal dollars obligated—representing 100 percent of recent award count but only 30 percent of combined federal dollars by value, indicating that grant dollars are distributed to other recipients outside the recent five-year window.

Recent contract opportunities reflect operational sustainment across multiple installations. Open solicitations include alpine cold-weather boots for small business and service-disabled veteran-owned small business (both due before late September 2026, with delivery required by 5 January 2027 for an upcoming exercise), a hydraulic power unit (small-business set-aside, due 22 September 2026), storage lockers (small-business set-aside, due 3 September 2026 with multiple amendments addressing specifications), and pre-solicitation notices for mattress supply and repair services for Kenworth semi tractors at Greeley ANG Station. The organization's contracting tempo remains active across routine supply and equipment categories.