City Of Lakota

City Of Lakota, operating as the Lakota Airport Authority, is a municipal U.S. government entity—the local government owner and operator of Lakota Airport in Lakota, North Dakota—that serves as a direct federal grant recipient for airport infrastructure development and rehabilitation projects under the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration. The entity does not hold federal contracts and does not compete in the federal contracting market; instead, it receives project grants and formula grants from the FAA and participates in federal grant sub-awards from state agencies and other local recipients.

Lakota Airport Authority's federal footprint centers on runway, taxiway, apron, and airfield lighting infrastructure reconstruction and rehabilitation. The vendor acts as prime recipient on all named grant work. Recent representative awards include a $1,352,633.68 project grant from the FAA under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116) awarded August 24, 2026, to reconstruct runway lighting, taxiway lighting, wind cone and segmented circle navigational aids, the airport lighting vault building and equipment, and precision approach path indicator systems for Runway 15/33, with performance through August 23, 2030; a $1,622,717.78 project grant under CFDA 20.106 awarded September 4, 2024, to rehabilitate 3,500 feet of existing paved Runway 15/33; and a $659,840 project grant under CFDA 20.106 awarded September 17, 2025, to reconstruct 5,506 square yards of deteriorated north apron pavement. The vendor also received a $143,600 engineering services award under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117) on August 24, 2026, and held historical formula-grant funding for design-phase work on runway, taxiway, and apron rehabilitation. One American Rescue Plan Act relief grant of undisclosed amount provided economic assistance in March 2022 for pandemic-related airport operations and sanitization.

Customer concentration is highly concentrated in the FAA Great Lakes Region. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 90% of awards, with the FAA Great Lakes Region dominating the footprint at 11 awards and the combined potential value driven by FAA airport infrastructure grants. The Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service, the FAA's national office, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters account for the remaining volume. The vendor acts as a sub-recipient on three grant sub-awards: from the State of North Dakota (two awards for Lakota Early Warning Siren and Emergency Protective Measures, June 2025 and March 2023 respectively) and one from an unspecified prime grantee for Lakota High School ROAB (August 2025).

Activity has accelerated in recent years, growing from a single award in 2023 to four in 2025 and two in 2026 year-to-date. The combined dollars obligated across the full award history total $8.4 million. All work is performed in North Dakota at Lakota Airport and subordinate facilities. This is a single-airport public entity with no federal contractor relationships, no seats on government-wide vehicles, and no commercial subcontracting activity in the federal market. The vendor's federal footprint is exclusively airport infrastructure grant funding from the FAA.