City Of Cascade

City of Cascade, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Cascade, Idaho and operating through its Police Department, provides land, facility-use, and airport infrastructure services to federal agencies as a prime contractor and grant recipient, with 91% of recent awards in prime capacity and no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

The municipality's federal work centers on two core capability areas: land and facility rental for wildland fire operations and research activities, and airport infrastructure development and maintenance. Its primary customer, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service's National Interagency Fire Center, anchors the portfolio through a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $250,000 through December 2028, which authorizes use of designated sections of Cascade Airport for fire incident response operations, including helicopter and aircraft parking during fire seasons. The Forest Service's Intermountain Region has placed seven awards totaling $70,000 in combined potential value for land-rental and facility-use services supporting wildland fire operations and Rocky Mountain Research Station research activities. Representative prime contracts include a $25,033 purchase order (August 2025) for grey water disposal services at the Forest Service's Boise location and a $27,095 purchase order (July 2024) for land rental supporting fire and research programs. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation accounts for seven awards ($90,000 combined potential value), including a $301,621 WaterSMART grant (CFDA 15.507) completed in 2024 for replacement of residential and commercial water meters with real-time metering technology.

The Federal Aviation Administration represents the largest award-count customer, with 11 awards, primarily through Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants supporting Cascade Airport taxiway reconstruction, apron expansion and reconstruction, snow removal equipment facilities, and pavement sealing. Signed grants include a $387,517 AIP Project Grant (June 2026) for taxiway reconstruction Phase 2 construction, a $198,507 AIP Project Grant (September 2025) for Phase 1 design of the same taxiway work, and multiple grants from 2021–2023 for apron work, equipment facility design and construction, and pavement rehabilitation. The Rural Utilities Service awarded a $526,000 domestic water infrastructure grant (CFDA 10.760) on June 27, 2025. The Department of Energy provided a cooperative agreement for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program (October 2024).

Activity declined from seven awards in 2023 to one in 2026; the portfolio shows combined dollars obligated of $10.9 million against combined potential value of $432,000, indicating substantial prior-year obligations. Two awards reach completion within the next twenty-four months. City of Cascade acts as a sub-recipient on grant awards issued to the State of Idaho and the Executive Office of the State of Idaho, including workforce development planning under the Cascade Geothermal Heating and Cooling District and library facility expansion under the Capital Projects Fund program. The municipality operates through a subsidiary, Cascade Rural Fire Protection District, a locally owned government entity.