Cache County School District

Cache County School District, operating as Cache Preschool, is a Utah local government school district that receives federal formula grants and pass-through sub-awards from state grantees as a recipient entity, with no federal contracting activity. The district operates as a sub-recipient on a portfolio dominated by education and child nutrition funding rather than as a prime contractor.

Cache Preschool's federal footprint is anchored by four prime Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), with awards in fiscal years 2022–2023, 2023–2024, 2025–2026, and 2026–2027. Beyond direct prime grants, the district receives the vast majority of its federal awards (97 of 121 total awards, or 80%) as a sub-recipient flowing through two primary grantee channels: the Utah State Board of Education and the Utah Department of Workforce Services. These sub-awards fund school meal programs (National School Lunch paid and free/reduced-price, School Breakfast Program, and After School Snack Program), special education and IDEA flow-through services, Title I and Title IIA professional development and instructional support, English language learner services, McKinney-Vento homeless education assistance, refugee school impact services, and high-quality preschool and school readiness expansion. Recent sub-award activity includes multiple school nutrition allocations from the Utah State Board of Education (distributed monthly and quarterly through 2025), IDEA flow-through formula grants, Title IA and IIA formula pass-throughs, and refugee and high-quality school readiness sub-awards from the Utah Department of Workforce Services.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 60 awards (roughly 50% of the portfolio by count), driven by recurring monthly and quarterly school meal program allocations. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 38 awards (roughly 31%), with the remaining activity split between OSERS (11 awards, or 9%) and HHS Administration for Children and Families (2 awards, or 2%), bringing the top four customer agencies to 93% of all awards. This concentration reflects the structure of federal K–12 education funding: large volumes of small, recurring sub-grants for nutritional and special education services flowing through state intermediaries, with one or two higher-value prime grants for Indian Education support. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $25.5 million across a fifteen-year span, averaging roughly $1.7 million annually in recent years. Activity spiked sharply in 2024 (66 awards) as the district's sub-award receipt was fully captured in the source data; the recompete cliff shows only one award with an ultimate completion date in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term renewal or recompete risk.