City Of Tempe

City Of Tempe Housing Services And Transportation Division, operating as City Of Tempe Engineering, is a municipal government entity that receives federal grants as a prime recipient for housing self-sufficiency programs, community development, urban agriculture, and small business development initiatives. The division is a child entity of the City of Tempe, Arizona, a municipal government headquartered in Tempe.

City Of Tempe Engineering's federal footprint is entirely grant-based, with no prime or subcontractor positions on federal contracts. The division acts as prime recipient on eleven of thirteen awards in the recent portfolio (85%), with two sub-recipient positions on urban forestry grants. Recent prime grants include four Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program awards from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office, where the division funds FSS coordinators to implement workforce development and economic mobility programs for residents of public housing and housing choice voucher properties; a $500 thousand Congressional Grants award from the Small Business Administration Office of the Chief Operating Officer (September 2022–August 2023) to support small business development and entrepreneurship initiatives; a cooperative food business development grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (September 2024–September 2027) to establish a community kitchen and support eighty Tempe residents in launching worker-owned food processing businesses focused on value-added goods from Arizona-grown produce; a $200 thousand urban agriculture framework grant from the USDA National Resources Conservation Service (July 2022–July 2024) to connect vulnerable residents to community gardens and urban farming opportunities; and two community development and economic development initiative grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (February 2023, each running through 2030–2031).

Customer concentration centers on HUD and USDA programs. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office accounts for four awards, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region for two awards (the division holds sub-recipient positions on urban forestry programs under Arizona State University and the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development for two awards. These five agencies cover 77% of the recent award count. Two awards complete within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. Total obligated dollars across all awards stand at $6.6 million, with activity holding flat at one to four awards per year over the past five years.