City Of Round Rock

City of Round Rock, Finance Division, doing business as Round Rock Fire Challenge Team, is a U.S. local government entity (municipality) that receives federal formula and project grants as the prime recipient, with a dominant footprint in transportation and community development funding. The vendor operates as a grant recipient rather than a federal contractor and does not hold contract vehicles or prime contract awards.

Round Rock is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, and competes exclusively in full-and-open grant programs with no set-aside designations. Its recent federal award activity spans ten distinct customer agencies, with 98% of awards held as prime grants and 1% as sub-recipient arrangements on state pass-through grants.

The vendor's customer base concentrates heavily on two grantor agencies: the Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (23 awards) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (23 awards), which together account for 92% of recent award volume. The Department of Justice, the Department of the Interior, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency round out the active set. The Federal Transit Administration administers recurring formula grants and project grants under CFDA 20.507 (Urbanized Area Formula Funding Program) and CFDA 20.526 (Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs), funding commuter express bus service connecting Round Rock and Austin, Mobility-on-Demand (MOD) services open to the general public with full ADA compliance, and ADA-complementary paratransit for persons with disabilities. Representative transit grants include a $2.065 million formula grant awarded December 11, 2025, with completion by September 30, 2029; a $1.85 million formula grant awarded May 13, 2025, with completion by December 31, 2029; and a $126,174 formula grant awarded June 23, 2026, for structural repairs and upgrades to the Round Rock Intermodal Parking and Transit Facility with completion by September 30, 2027.

HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program (CFDA 14.218) provides formula entitlement grants to support viable urban community development, decent housing, and economic opportunity expansion for low- and moderate-income persons. The vendor has received multiple CDBG awards with completion dates through 2033. Beyond transportation and housing, Round Rock received a $16.888 million project grant from the Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504) awarded September 20, 2024, to expand the city's reclaimed water distribution system from 6 million gallons per day to 12 million gallons per day, with completion by December 31, 2026. The Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Program awarded a project grant for law enforcement technology and equipment in December 2022, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funded a behavioral health services crisis response unit project grant awarded September 30, 2022, supporting salary expenses for the Round Rock Fire Department's newly formed Crisis Response Unit to respond to 911-dispatched behavioral health crisis calls. The City also holds a sub-recipient arrangement under a January 2025 Texas state pass-through grant focused on crisis response system expansion, training, and psychiatric medication access for behavioral health crisis management.

Award activity has remained flat at three awards per year for 2022 through 2025, with only one award recorded in 2026 to date. Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $68.6 million, substantially exceeding the combined potential value figure due to the city's multi-year grant structures and invoiced spending on infrastructure and operational projects.