Coachella Valley Water District Public Facilities Corporation

Coachella Valley Water District Public Facilities Corporation, doing business as Coachella Valley Water District, is a tax-exempt nonprofit water utility based in Palm Desert, California, that acts as a federal grant recipient (97% of recent awards) focused on water infrastructure, water quality management, and rural water service delivery across the Coachella Valley region.

CVWD's grant footprint centers on three federal agencies. The Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service has funded twelve awards under the Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities program (CFDA 10.760) and the Section 306C water alleviation grants; the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation has issued nine awards under WaterSMART (CFDA 15.507) and applied-science water management initiatives; and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 has funded one cooperative agreement. Recent representative work includes a $6.15 million EPA Congressionally Mandated Projects cooperative agreement (awarded July 1, 2024, completion December 31, 2027) for design, environmental documentation, and construction of the Valley View Water Consolidation Project, a $3.04 million WaterSMART project grant (February 26, 2024) supporting turf conversion and smart irrigation rebates for approximately 105 golf courses in the service area with projected annual water savings of 1,637 acre-feet, and a multi-phase Bureau of Reclamation project grant (August 4, 2023) for the Water Reclamation Plant Number 10 non-potable water system expansion targeting delivery of approximately 20,620 acre-feet annually of recycled water to twenty customers. CVWD also received an Applied Science Grants award of $404,000 (February 27, 2023) to update the Coachella Valley Salt and Nutrient Management Plan in partnership with seven regional agencies including the Cities of Coachella and Palm Springs and four local water authorities.

CVWD obligated $135 million across its recent federal awards, substantially exceeding the combined potential value of $21 thousand reported in the source, indicating large prior-year obligations relative to new annual award volume. Activity has been irregular — one award in 2021, three in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024, and one in 2025 — with only one award scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited near-term recompete exposure. CVWD holds one sub-award position dating to August 2, 2024, under the Office of Emergency Services as prime grantee on storm water channel restoration work. The vendor's award concentration reflects its core mission: water supply and irrigation systems infrastructure (four awards) and utilities-water work (two awards) dominate the NAICS and PSC profile, with ancillary funding for applied research in agricultural water management.