Bolivar Energy Authority

Bolivar Energy Authority, a non-profit organization based in Bolivar, Tennessee, operates exclusively as a sub-recipient of federal grants, with no prime contracting footprint. The organization has received 39 federal grant sub-awards totaling $39.2 million in combined obligations across a four-year window, all routed through a single customer agency: the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Bolivar Energy Authority's grant work centers on disaster recovery and pandemic response programs. Twenty-nine of the thirty-nine sub-awards (74% coverage) flow from FEMA's Public Assistance (PA) Program, delivered via the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency as the prime grantee. The bulk of this work consists of sub-awards for PA 4701 assistance, an eight-award cohort issued on March 31, 2023, alongside two additional PA 4701 sub-awards from December 22, 2022. These awards support debris removal, emergency protective measures, and restoration or replacement of disaster-damaged public and nonprofit facilities. More recent PA Program work includes a February 3, 2026 sub-award for pandemic-response emergency protective measures (medical sheltering, vaccine administration, community engagement and information dissemination) and an April 8, 2026 sub-award under the same program framework.

Beyond FEMA PA Program work, Bolivar Energy Authority received nine Broadband Accessibility Grant Awards issued between March 1 and March 20, 2023, representing the only diversification in the sub-award portfolio. The organization has not held prime grant awards or federal contracts, and activity shows volatility: seventeen sub-awards in 2021, a drop to two in 2022, a rebound to seventeen in 2023, and three most recent sub-awards in 2026 as of the source date. No parent federal contract vehicles, IDIQs, or GWACs appear in the portfolio; all work flows through direct sub-award relationships downstream of Tennessee Emergency Management Agency or equivalent state pass-through grantees.