California Region

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region is the civilian federal land-management agency responsible for contracting and grant-making to support BLM operations, resource management, and law-enforcement activities across California's public lands. The California Region administers both federal contracts and cooperative agreement grants from its Sacramento State Office and subordinate field offices.

The BLM California Region has awarded 4,305 federal contracts totaling $374.3 million in combined potential value since 2003, with $342.9 million obligated to date. Contract activity averaged 144 to 159 awards annually from 2022 through 2023, declined to 121 in 2024, rebounded to 152 in 2025, and reached 80 year-to-date in 2026. The competitive landscape is highly fragmented: the top five primes by award count hold 10 percent of recent awards, with North Wind General Contractors LLC leading at 18 awards worth $3 million combined potential value over the last five years. The top five by potential value hold only 4 percent of combined value, with North Wind Construction Services, LLC highest at $5.4 million across five awards. This dispersion reflects the agency's reliance on 1,723 distinct prime contractors. The set-aside portfolio skews open: 65 percent of awards use no set-aside, 31 percent are total small business set-asides, and 3 percent are 8(a) sole source, with minimal use of HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, and other specialty designations.

Grant activity is concentrated and declining. The BLM California Region has made 410 federal grant awards totaling $103.4 million in obligated federal dollars since 2013, with combined total dollars (federal plus non-federal share) reaching $147.8 million. Awards per year fell sharply: 56 in 2022, 56 in 2023, 62 in 2024, 13 in 2025, and 5 year-to-date in 2026. All 410 grants are cooperative agreements. Recipients are moderately concentrated: the top five by award count hold 30 percent of recent awards, led by American Conservation Experience at 27 awards worth $5.6 million federal dollars obligated. By federal dollars, the top five hold 14 percent of obligated funding; American Conservation Experience leads again at $5.6 million, followed by Tuolumne County Resource Conservation District at $3.5 million. The 147 distinct recipients include conservation nonprofits, community colleges, and resource conservation districts focused on habitat restoration, environmental stewardship, and land management.

Recent contract opportunities span law-enforcement infrastructure, facilities management, and land administration. Open solicitations include LE Radio Network Services (special notice, sole source to San Bernardino County for law-enforcement radio communications, due October 2, 2026), Site Lease—Snow Peak (sole source for communications site lease in Morongo Valley, due September 17, 2026), and Rifo Corral Exterior Cleaning (total small business set-aside, due October 16, 2026). Multiple sole-source notices for commercial telecommunications services (Frontier Internet Services, Spectrum, and Pacific Bell Telephone Company) reflect the agency's reliance on incumbent carriers for field-office connectivity. A solicitation for surveys of Hawaiian Homelands boundaries (RFQ 140L1226Q0043, due September 16, 2026) targets environmental consulting firms. Small business set-asides dominate the recent pipeline: parking lot stabilization materials, trail repaving, fence replacement, and miscellaneous field maintenance appear across August and September postings, with due dates concentrated in the first two weeks of September 2026.

No recent grant opportunities are recorded in the source data.