State Of Oklahoma

State Of Oklahoma, doing business as Conservation Commission, operates as a U.S. state government entity and federal grant recipient focused on watershed rehabilitation, erosion control, prescribed fire management, and conservation technical assistance across Oklahoma, working exclusively as a prime recipient (95% of recent awards) under cooperative agreements with the Natural Resources Conservation Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Conservation Commission's federal footprint concentrates heavily with the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, which accounts for 124 of 154 awards across the source data (97% of tracked activity). The Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 is the second customer, with 12 awards, followed by the Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (11 awards). This customer concentration reflects the entity's core mission in natural resource conservation and watershed management rather than a diversified contractor posture.

Recent award activity shows growth in 2025 — eight awards that year versus three to four annually from 2022 through 2024 — with a sharp drop to two awards in 2026 year-to-date (the source reflects activity through June 2026). Five awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure for the Conservation Commission's NRCS and Fish and Wildlife partnerships.

The Conservation Commission's capability portfolio centers on concrete watershed and habitat restoration work. Recent prime cooperative agreements include a $7.93 million June 2026 NRCS award for comprehensive Fourche Maline Site 7M Dam rehabilitation in Latimer County (ultimate completion June 2028) spanning engineering assessments, design services, environmental evaluation, and construction implementation; a $1.69 million September 2025 NRCS cooperative agreement for ongoing technical assistance and Farm Bill program delivery statewide; a $575,000 January 2025 Fish and Wildlife Service award under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) to facilitate prescribed fire on private lands with a target of enhancing or restoring 28,500 acres of native grasslands through 2029; and a $521,429 September 2025 NRCS Soil and Water Conservation award to expand the Juniper Evaluation Tool (JET) — a desktop assessment resource for land managers — from pilot to statewide application through September 2030. Additional NRCS awards fund emergency watershed protection bed stabilization, watershed assessment and planning, and dam repair work at multiple Oklahoma sites. The Conservation Commission also receives sub-awards from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for grassland restoration, riparian ecosystem rehabilitation, and fish passage barrier identification in the Kiamichi subbasin.

The Conservation Commission maintains a named subsidiary, Kay County Conservation District, a county-level local government entity. Combined federal dollars obligated across all awards total $109.2 million since the source data began in 2007, with the vast majority flowing through NRCS cooperative agreements for infrastructure rehabilitation and conservation delivery. As a state government entity rather than a private contractor, the Conservation Commission operates outside the SBA set-aside ecosystem and competes for federal funding through sole-source cooperative agreements with its primary federal partners rather than through open competitive procurements or contract vehicles.