Clallam County Economic Development Council

Clallam County Economic Development Council, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Port Angeles, Washington, operates as a recipient of federal grants focused on procurement technical assistance and regional economic development, with no federal contract prime awards. The organization acts as a prime grantee on Department of Defense APEX Accelerator cooperative agreements and an Economic Development Administration project grant, and as a sub-recipient on Clallam County grants.

Clallam County EDC's grant portfolio centers on two distinct capability areas. The primary focus is procurement technical assistance delivery through the APEX Accelerator program (Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms, CFDA 12.002), which the Office of the Secretary of Defense has funded across multiple one-year cooperative agreements beginning in October 2022. The current award, executed June 1, 2026, carries $314,956.69 and runs through May 31, 2027; predecessor awards in 2024–2025 and 2023–2024 funded the same mission. Through this program, Clallam County EDC provides free counseling, training, and technical guidance to businesses of all sizes, including newly established and minority-owned firms, assisting with government contracting prospect identification, proposal development, compliance training, and procurement process navigation. The secondary capability area is regional economic development. The Economic Development Administration awarded Clallam County EDC a project grant effective January 1, 2025, running through December 31, 2027, to develop regional economic capacity in natural resource-based industries across the Olympic Peninsula. That grant funds feasibility studies for oriented strand board manufacturing and plywood milling, workforce training programs focused on forestry industry skills, housing market analysis and demonstration units for Indigenous tribal communities, industrial symbiosis screenings, logistics improvement studies, and environmental and engineering reports for port terminals, with planned sub-awards to Oregon State University and the Composite Recycling Technology Center.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Economic Development Administration account for 89% of awards across the recent footprint (4 and 3 awards respectively), with 67% of awards structured as prime recipient grants. Nine total awards over the past five years obligate $9.9 million, with activity growing in 2024–2025 before returning to a single award in 2026. Two awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure on the 2027 APEX Accelerator cycle. Sub-grant activities include technical assistance on the Natural Resources Innovation Center project, economic analysis for the North Olympic Peninsula Regional Collaborative Recompete Plan, and disaster relief funding distribution under the Lifeboat3 Program supporting small businesses and nonprofits affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.