City Of John Day

City Of John Day, a municipal government entity located in John Day, Oregon, operates as a federal grant recipient and occasional federal contractor providing land rental and facility services to the U.S. Forest Service and other natural-resource agencies on a project-by-project basis, with no standing IDVs or parent contract vehicles.

City Of John Day is a U.S. local government (city) with no SBA certifications or set-aside posture. The municipality has a modest federal footprint dominated by grant work rather than contracting. Its federal customer base spans seven agencies, led by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region), which accounts for 15 awards totaling $92 thousand in combined potential value across land rental purchase orders. The top three agencies by potential value are USDA Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region ($92 thousand), USDA Forest Service ($39 thousand), and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington ($17 thousand), collectively representing 91% of combined potential value across all awards.

Recent contracting activity centers on small-value land rental purchase orders. A July 27, 2026 Forest Service purchase order for $39,448 covers land rental services at Fossil, Oregon with completion on August 9, 2026. A July 15, 2026 order from Forest Service Region 6 for $1,728 supported operations in Pendleton, Oregon. A September 9, 2025 purchase order for $7,752 from Region 6 continued an established relationship for land rental supporting incident response operations, part of a pattern of three purchase orders from the Forest Service since 2021 totaling approximately $37,544. No set-asides have applied to any of these purchase orders, and all awards operate as firm fixed-price arrangements with completion dates within weeks to months of award.

The municipality's federal grant footprint centers on community economic development. The Economic Development Administration awarded City Of John Day a $2,021,298 Project Grant under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program on April 19, 2022 for construction of broadband infrastructure enhancements and lease of a coworking space in John Day and Canyon City. The project funded fiber optic access to critical community facilities to expand high-speed internet access and aid economic recovery. City Of John Day also received a federal grant sub-award from the Oregon Military Department on January 23, 2024 for management costs. The municipality has administered over $2.4 million in federal grant funding across broadband and public safety initiatives, demonstrating established capacity in federal grant administration within the Pacific Northwest region.

Activity averages less than one award per year across 2021–2026, with two awards in 2026 and flat annual volume across prior years. The combined potential value of $163 thousand across all awards reflects the small-project nature of the city's federal work; however, obligated dollars total $2.8 million, indicating that grant awards carry substantially larger realized funding than purchase-order ceiling values suggest.