Cache Metropolitan Planning Organization

Cache Metropolitan Planning Organization, a U.S. local government entity and council of governments based in Logan, Utah, receives federal grants from the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration as a prime recipient and as a sub-recipient through the Utah Department of Transportation, performing transportation safety planning and comprehensive planning work across Cache County's ten northern Utah municipalities.

Cache MPO is a governmental inter-municipal organization rather than a private contractor or vendor. The organization does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; its federal footprint consists entirely of grant funding. As a prime recipient, Cache MPO received a Safer Streets for All (SS4A) Implementation Grant from FHWA on August 30, 2023, to develop a comprehensive safety action plan covering the ten Cache County cities under its jurisdiction, with ultimate completion scheduled for October 27, 2025. The organization also acts as a sub-recipient on five annual Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program sub-awards flowing through the Utah Department of Transportation — four sub-awards dated July 8, 2026 for FY2027 Cache MPO Continuing Planning Grant work, and one dated July 8, 2025 for FY2026 work.

Customer concentration is total: the Federal Highway Administration accounts for all six awards and all obligated federal dollars ($1.1 million combined). Activity is recent and episodic — one award in 2023, one in 2025, and four in 2026 — rather than continuous; the three awards in the next twenty-four months consist of FY2027 and potentially FY2028 CMAQ sub-awards flowing through UDOT. Cache MPO operates no parent contract vehicles and does not engage subcontractors in the traditional federal-vendor model; it functions as a regional planning and safety coordination body distributing federal transportation planning grants to municipalities within its planning area. The organization's grant work centers on comprehensive safety action planning, transportation planning processes, and congestion mitigation — functions typical of metropolitan planning organizations under USDOT's FHWA and CMAQ programs rather than the procurement and service-delivery model used by private federal contractors.