City Of Johnson City

City Of Johnson City, a Tennessee municipal government headquartered in Johnson City, operates as a federal grant recipient and contract awardee, delivering municipal services including trash collection, water supply, transit operations, and community development to federal facilities and programs across 23 customer agencies. The city competes in full-and-open procurement without SBA set-asides, structured as a U.S. Local Government entity with a named subsidiary, Johnson City Energy Authority.

The city's federal footprint splits between prime grant awards (57% of 311 total awards) and pass-through sub-awards (43%), with customer concentration anchored by the Department of Veterans Affairs (66 awards across multiple VA components), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (48 awards), and the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (38 awards). By potential value, the Veterans Health Administration's Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 dominates with $2.1 million combined across nine awards; the National Cemetery Administration accounts for an additional $56 thousand across 13 awards. The FTA accounts for the bulk of the city's active grant portfolio, including two major formula grants for transit operations totaling $9.5 million and $4.5 million awarded in September 2025 and September 2024 respectively, and multiple smaller capital grants for bus fleet replacement and facility improvements. The city also receives recurring Community Development Block Grant formula awards from the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development for community development and housing programs, and passes through federal education and school-meal funding to local schools via sub-awards from the Department of Education Tennessee.

On the contract side, City Of Johnson City holds three task orders under Indefinite Delivery Contract V621P3684 with the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration for annual trash collection services at Mountain Home National Cemetery (approximately $8.4 thousand in combined potential value across awards in 2024 and 2025), and a single $529 thousand purchase order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 completed in March 2027 for unspecified services. The city does not appear on federal GWACs, BPAs, or agency-wide IDIQs in the source; its work flows through direct awards and formula grant programs. Four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $529 thousand, presenting modest recompete exposure.

Activity has grown substantially — from six awards in 2023 to 36 in 2024 to 25 in 2025 — driven primarily by recurring FTA operational and capital grants and education pass-throughs. The city's capability portfolio, grounded in its municipal-service role, centers on waste collection and landfill operations (40 awards under PSC Housekeeping-Trash/Garbage Collection), water supply and irrigation (36 awards under PSC Utilities-Water), transit operations (fixed-route and demand-response services under FTA formula programs), and facility maintenance. All transit services are performed directly by Johnson City Transit employees with no contracted subcontractors. The city passes through federal funding to subordinate entities — notably the Tennessee Department of Education for school-meal and special-education programming, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency for pandemic-relief reimbursement, and the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration for victims-of-crime services — signaling a pass-through administrative role for multiple federal programs rather than direct service delivery across its full footprint.