City Of Ocean Springs

City Of Ocean Springs, a Mississippi municipality headquartered in Ocean Springs, operates as a federal prime contractor and grant recipient delivering emergency dispatch services, infrastructure construction support, and firefighting assistance to civilian federal agencies on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations. The city competes for and wins federal work directly rather than through subcontracts, with 94% of recent awards held as prime contracts or grant awards.

The bulk of City Of Ocean Springs's federal customer concentration sits with the Department of the Interior National Park Service Southeast Region, which has awarded 15 purchase orders (combined potential value $173 thousand) for 24/7 emergency dispatch services supporting law enforcement and first responder coordination at the Mississippi District of Gulf Islands National Seashore. These recurring annual contracts, valued at $12 thousand each and running from December through November, require the city to staff trained emergency medical dispatchers. The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration anchors the second-largest funding share with 2 awards (combined potential value $224 thousand), including a $224.3 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order awarded April 21, 2026, for material, equipment, labor, and construction services to relocate watermains and forcemains in conflict with a proposed culvert in Ashburn, Virginia, with completion by February 28, 2027. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued 3 awards, including an Assistance to Firefighters Grant to the city as prime recipient with an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2025. The city has also received sub-grant funding from the Mississippi Department of Transportation for sidewalk and pedestrian bridge improvements and from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency for disaster recovery work.

Activity over the past five years tracks light and declining — one award in 2025 and one in 2026, following two in 2024 and three in 2023 — with two awards (combined potential value $236 thousand) approaching completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure. Combined potential value across all 34 prime and sub awards totals $421 thousand, though obligated dollars across the portfolio reach $1.4 million, reflecting prior-year funding and ongoing performance on recurring dispatch contracts. The city's federal capability footprint centers on emergency communications dispatch, infrastructure and water system construction support, and emergency management grant administration for federal facilities in the Southeast.