City Of Madras

City Of Madras, a U.S. local government entity and city located in Oregon, acts as a federal grant recipient and occasional prime contractor, providing airport infrastructure and helicopter base operations to support wildland fire suppression and civil aviation missions across the Pacific Northwest. The city operates as a sub-recipient on federal grant programs and holds small delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts from the U.S. Forest Service.

City Of Madras operates exclusively outside set-asides in a full-and-open posture. The city's federal footprint centers on two distinct capability streams: wildfire operations support through the Forest Service and airport infrastructure improvement through the Federal Aviation Administration. On the wildfire side, the city provides helicopter base and helibase operations at Madras Airport under a $250 thousand indefinite delivery contract awarded by the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management (National Interagency Fire Center) running through April 2028, with recent delivery orders including a $15 thousand firm fixed-price order from the Forest Service on May 26, 2025, for wildfire incident support, and a $3.25 thousand delivery order on June 23, 2024, for airport infrastructure and helicopter base operations. On the civil aviation side, the city is recipient of a $108.22 thousand FAA Airport Improvement Program project grant awarded May 29, 2026, to reconstruct weather reporting and surveillance equipment (automated weather observing system design phase running through May 2030), complementing earlier FAA grants funding airport apron reconstruction, perimeter fencing, and design work.

The city's broader federal grant portfolio demonstrates substantial dollars obligated relative to potential value: combined potential value across all 35 awards (prime and sub) is $292 thousand, but obligated dollars total $20.2 million — a 6,939% ratio indicating that many small-value awards from prior years have been fully drawn. Recent grant activity includes a $5.53 million Economic Development Administration Economic Adjustment Assistance grant awarded September 12, 2023, for downtown stormwater infrastructure improvements (storm sewer piping, street resurfacing, bioretention pond construction), and multiple FAA Airport Improvement Program grants from 2022 and 2023 funding apron reconstruction phases and perimeter fencing at Madras Airport. The city also receives federal grant sub-awards through the Oregon Department of Transportation (Innovative Mobility Grants FFY25-27, awarded June 25, 2025) and other pass-through agencies for contracted services, transit service, water distribution, emergency rent assistance, and homeless shelter services.

Customer concentration is diffuse across eight federal agencies. The top five funding sources by award count cover 69% of awards: the FAA Northwest Mountain Region (10 awards), the Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region (5 awards, $11 thousand potential value), the FAA at the national level (5 awards), the Forest Service nationally (3 awards, $16 thousand potential value), and the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (1 award, $250 thousand potential value). By dollar magnitude, the Interagency Fire Center dominates with the single $250 thousand IDC, while the remainder of the portfolio consists of sub-million-dollar FAA and Forest Service orders. City Of Madras holds a single parent vehicle position: an indefinite delivery contract (1202RZ23T0021) with four task orders carrying $19 thousand combined potential value.

Award activity has been episodic: five awards in 2022, nine in 2023, one in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026. Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The city's work is characterized by support activities for forestry (9 awards) and airport operations (1 award), with associated PSC codes emphasizing lease and rental of airport runways and taxiways (6 awards) and forest-range fire suppression and presuppression (3 awards). As a sub-recipient, the city has received federal grant sub-awards from the Oregon Department of Transportation and state agencies managing water, emergency rental assistance, and social services programs.