Bonneville Metropolitan Planning Organization

Bonneville Metropolitan Planning Organization, a local government entity structured as a U.S. county planning commission, receives federal grant sub-awards from the Idaho Department of Transportation (the prime grantee) for regional transportation planning and Safe Routes to School coordination. The organization does not hold prime contracts or serve as a direct prime recipient of federal grants; all eleven recent awards are sub-grants flowing through IDT as the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration pass-through entity.

The organization's federal footprint is narrow and specialized. Bonneville Metropolitan Planning Organization operates exclusively as a sub-recipient under a single customer agency: the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration accounts for 100% of the eleven awards in the source data, all awarded through IDT as the intermediary grantee. The work falls into two recurring categories: metropolitan planning organization planning funds supporting the Unified Planning and Work Program (which provides regional transportation planning services), and Safe Routes to School program support (personnel, materials, incentives, and special events coordination). Representative awards include FY26 BMPO Metro Planning sub-grants dated February and December 2025 and February 2026, and an Idaho Falls Safe Routes to School Coordinator & Activities award dated April 2026. The combined dollars obligated across all eleven awards total $630 thousand, reflecting the modest scale typical of local MPO sub-grants.

Activity has grown modestly: five awards in 2025 and six in 2026 year-to-date, all within a tight temporal window from February 2025 through April 2026. The organization has no parent contract vehicles, sits on no GWACs or BPAs, and maintains no prime contracting relationships. As a local government planning entity rather than a vendor or contractor, Bonneville Metropolitan Planning Organization operates within the federal grant ecosystem rather than the procurement marketplace — the organization is a pass-through recipient of transportation-planning dollars allocated through the state DOT, not a business pursuing federal work.