Northwest Mountain Region

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Northwest Mountain Region is a civilian sub-agency that administers federal grants and contracts for airport development, maintenance, and aviation infrastructure improvements across the Northwest and Mountain West, and also executes contracts for operations and facility management at its own installations.

The region operates a substantial grant program, awarding $8.46 billion in federal dollars across 4,201 grants to 316 distinct recipients since 2004. Grant activity has remained steady over the last five years, with 367 awards in 2022, 359 in 2023, 362 in 2024, 458 in 2025, and 374 year-to-date in 2026. The assistance-type mix is heavily skewed toward Project Grants, which account for 80 percent of awards, with Formula Grants comprising the remaining 20 percent. Grant recipient concentration is highly fragmented across the top five recipients, which hold only 7 percent of recent award count and 17 percent of recent federal dollars obligated. The City and County of Denver leads by federal dollars at $506.4 million across 31 awards, followed by the Port of Seattle at $335.5 million across 22 awards and the City of Salt Lake at $297.2 million across 26 awards. The Oregon Department of Aviation ranks highest by award count with 48 awards totaling $18.5 million in federal dollars. The remaining 311 recipients account for the vast majority of activity, indicating a dispersed funding landscape dominated by local and regional airports and aviation authorities.

The region also maintains a contract portfolio of $1.09 billion in combined potential value across 1,449 awards to 611 distinct prime contractors since 2000. However, contract activity has declined sharply, with only 7 awards in 2020, 8 in 2021, 3 in 2022, 1 in 2023, and 2 recorded in 2025; the most recent award is dated August 2025. Of the $1.09 billion combined potential value, $375.3 million (34 percent) has been obligated. Contract set-asides are minimal, with 82 percent of awards carrying no set-aside designation, 12 percent awarded to Total Small Business, and 4 percent as Competitive 8(a). Over the last five years, competitive concentration among primes is highly fragmented, with the top five contractors accounting for only 71 percent of recent awards by count and 0 percent of combined potential value—a signal that recent awards are predominantly Schedule task orders, BPA calls, or below-threshold purchases with unreported dollar fields. Johnson Controls, Inc., leads the recent by-value window with a single $656 thousand award.

No recent contract opportunities are recorded against the region. No recent grant opportunities are recorded against the region.