North Dakota National Guard

The Department of the Army North Dakota Army National Guard is a sub-agency within the Department of Defense responsible for federal contracting and grant administration for Army National Guard operations in North Dakota. The agency transacts both federal contracts and federal grants supporting military readiness and state defense activities.

Contract activity at the North Dakota Army National Guard spans 4,165 awards since 2002, with combined potential value of $84.8 million and combined dollars obligated of $100.6 million across 1,292 distinct prime contractors. Award volume has declined significantly in recent years: the agency issued 89 awards in 2019, 85 in 2020, 61 in 2021, 1 in 2023, and 4 in 2025. The competitive landscape is highly fragmented—the top five primes by award count account for 71 percent of recent awards but collectively represent only 1 percent of combined potential value, indicating that recent activity concentrates in small-dollar transactions through multiple vendors. MEC Technologies LLC leads by potential value at $670 thousand across one award, followed by Sei Industries LTD at $105 thousand. Most recent awards carry reported values under $100 thousand, suggesting heavy transacting through Schedule task orders, BPA calls, or below-threshold purchase orders. The contract award mix reflects two-thirds of all awards without set-aside designation and one-quarter under total small-business set-asides; 8(a) sole-source awards account for 6 percent of the portfolio.

Grant activity is substantially smaller in volume but higher in annual funding consistency. The North Dakota Army National Guard has issued 77 federal grants since October 2015, obligating $284.4 million in federal dollars across a combined total of $316.7 million including non-federal share. Grant awards have remained steady at 9–10 per year from 2021 through 2025. All 77 grants are Cooperative Agreements, and all recent awards flow to a single recipient—the North Dakota Department of Military Affairs—which received 39 awards obligating $110.9 million in federal dollars over the last five years (39 percent of the agency's recent federal grant total).

Recent contract award activity remains minimal through 2026, with no open solicitations recorded in the immediate-opportunities pipeline. Recent grant opportunities are similarly absent from the current pipeline, reflecting the ongoing cooperative-agreement structure with the North Dakota Department of Military Affairs.