Grant County

Grant County, doing business as Grant County Treasurer, is a U.S. local government entity based in Canyon City, Oregon, that provides facilities operations, airport management, law enforcement patrol, and infrastructure support services to federal land management agencies in the Pacific Northwest as a prime contractor (71% of recent awards) and grant recipient. The county competes in open competition without set-aside designations across all federal work.

Grant County's federal footprint centers on regional partnerships with three agencies. The U.S. Forest Service, Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region), is the dominant customer by dollar value, accounting for four awards totaling $845 thousand in combined potential value, including a single-award indefinite-delivery contract for joint facilities operations utility and services (ceiling $546,595.46, awarded May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2027) with a delivery order issued July 13, 2026, for Malheur National Forest Rappel Crew facilities operations at Canyon City, Oregon ($98,917.70). The county also holds a purchase order from the Forest Service for co-occupancy operations at the Grant County Regional Airport and U.S. Forest Service Airbase joint facility in John Day, Oregon (ceiling $96,877.85, awarded September 19, 2025, ultimate completion April 30, 2026). The Bureau of Land Management, Oregon-Washington Region, has awarded two purchase orders totaling $51 thousand: a $40,000 law enforcement patrol services contract supporting the Prineville District Office (awarded October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2029) and a $11,320 rock crushing services order for the Monument Pit in the Prineville District (awarded August 15, 2024, completion September 30, 2024). The Federal Aviation Administration, Northwest Mountain Region, has issued nine grants totaling approximately $1.3 million for John Day Airport infrastructure improvements, including runway reconstruction and lighting ($2.8 million construction phase, awarded August 6, 2023); runway design phase ($1.7 million, awarded September 6, 2022); a fuel farm construction grant ($285,125.26 under CFDA 20.117, awarded June 10, 2026); a fuel farm construction grant under the Airport Improvement Program ($164,430.53, CFDA 20.116, awarded June 10, 2026); helipad design ($127,843.16, CFDA 20.116, awarded June 10, 2026); runway protection land acquisition ($148,603.16, CFDA 20.106, awarded September 16, 2025); and snow removal equipment procurement ($248,478.89, CFDA 20.106, awarded September 16, 2025). Award volume has grown from one in 2022 to six in 2026, with three awards (combined potential value $99 thousand) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months.

Grant County receives federal funding as a sub-recipient through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Emergency Management Performance Grant program and the Oregon Department of Transportation's Section 5311 rural transit program. The county has also received pass-through grant funding from the State of Oregon for emergency management operations, fire fighting response support, courthouse and probation office security system installation, and rural public transportation operations including demand-response and intercity services.