County Of Carbon

County Of Carbon, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Red Lodge, Montana, operates as a federal grant sub-recipient (79% of awards) and prime recipient of modest federal contracts and grants, with a federal footprint dominated by disaster-relief and emergency-management pass-through funding from state intermediaries and direct wildfire-support infrastructure agreements.

County Of Carbon is structured as the parent entity of Carbon County Of (a subsidiary county government unit). The vendor holds no SBA designations — as a local government, it is ineligible. Its federal work splits sharply between prime and sub roles: eleven prime awards (contracts, IDVs, and grants) account for 21% of recent activity, while forty-one sub-awards under state grantor agencies represent 79%. The combined potential value across all fifty-two recent awards totals $156 thousand, though the obligated-value record ($14.4 million, or 9,220% of potential value) reflects a data-structure artifact common in grant reporting where cumulative invoicing on long-running sub-awards exceeds the nominal ceiling. Prime federal contract work is minimal: two delivery orders under a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the USDA Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) for pre-season land-use agreements, each valued under $500, structured to authorize use of the County Fairgrounds as an Incident Command Post and the Red Lodge and Bridger airports as helibase facilities in support of fire suppression operations through May 31, 2031 (a $150 thousand ceiling IDV).

Prime grant awards are modest in count but regionally significant. County Of Carbon received an $800 thousand Project Grant from the USDA Rural Utilities Service under the Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities program (CFDA 10.760) in June 2025 for disaster-related water infrastructure improvements, with completion set for June 2027. Two additional prime grants awarded in September 2022 fund an airport master-plan update — one for 53% of project costs under a federal grant program (completion September 2026) and one for 42% under an Airport Improvement Program grant (same completion date). A fourth prime grant, issued in January 2022 under the American Rescue Plan Act, provided economic relief funding for Red Lodge Airport operations and debt service in response to COVID-19, completing January 2026.

The sub-award footprint is substantial by count and reflects the vendor's role as a local beneficiary of state pass-throughs and federal emergency-management assistance. The State of Montana Department of Health and Human Services routes sub-awards for public health emergency preparedness (PHEP), immunization (EPI), HIV/STD, and public health surveillance initiatives. The Department of Military Affairs Montana, as a prime grantee, has channeled 16 sub-awards to Carbon County since 2022 for roads-and-bridges reconstruction and emergency protective measures responding to 2022 spring flooding damage — including temporary bridge construction, abutment repairs, floodplain permitting, and gravel-road restoration across multiple named sites (Meeteetse Trail, East Side, Tuttle Lane, Two Mile Road, and others). The Montana Board of Crime Control issued one sub-award for a data project in January 2024. Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards account for 22 sub-awards, the largest concentration by count, though dollar values are not detailed in the source.

Activity has been episodic, with eleven awards in 2022, thirteen in 2023, and eleven in 2024, declining to two in 2025 and three in 2026 (including the IDV award). Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting a modest recompete exposure. Top categorization by award reflects Support Activities for Forestry (four awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation — Forest/Range Fire Rehabilitation (three awards), anchoring the vendor's federal profile to regional wildfire infrastructure and post-disaster recovery work rather than commercial contracting.