County Of Houghton

County Of Houghton, doing business as Houghton County Memorial Airport, is a U.S. local government entity and county airport authority based in Calumet, Michigan, that receives federal grants as a prime recipient for airport infrastructure development and maintenance. The vendor operates exclusively as a grant recipient—not as a federal contractor—and has no presence on federal contract vehicles; all 139 awards in the source record are federal grants spanning airport improvement, aircraft hangar construction, airfield pavement and lighting rehabilitation, and obstruction removal work, with combined obligated dollars of $51.1 million against a combined potential value of $5.1 million.

Houghton County Memorial Airport is a non-hub primary commercial service airport serving the Hancock, Michigan region. Recent grant work centers on infrastructure modernization under Federal Aviation Administration funding. The largest single award is a $21.8 million project grant from the FAA Great Lakes Region (CFDA 20.106, Airport Improvement Program) awarded in June 2022 to reconstruct airfield infrastructure including runway and taxiway lighting systems, the airport rotating beacon, and over 6,500 feet each of runway and taxiway pavement rehabilitation, with completion scheduled for June 2026. Three more recent awards totaling roughly $3.5 million, awarded July 21, 2026, fund construction of a new 1,796 square-foot non-exclusive T-hangar for aircraft storage ($2.47 million, CFDA 20.117, Airport Infrastructure Grants), pavement reseal and taxiway construction ($1.05 million, CFDA 20.116, Airport Improvement Program), and earlier phases of an 8,316 square-foot sponsor-owned hangar project ($2.45 million awarded August 2025, $220 thousand awarded September 2024, both CFDA 20.106). A $751 thousand award from April 2023 funds obstruction removal and wetland mitigation work through April 2027. All infrastructure projects are performed at Houghton County Memorial Airport in Calumet, Michigan, and funded under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law or Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act expanded eligibility provisions, with completion dates extending through July 2030.

Award volume is minimal in recent years—one or two per year from 2023 through 2026—reflecting the episodic, project-based nature of federal airport development funding. The FAA Great Lakes Region is the dominant customer, accounting for 33 awards across the source record, while secondary activity routes through GSA Public Buildings Service Central Office (15 awards, $1.6 million potential value, primarily under Basic Ordering Agreement GS05B17588 for lease or rental of office buildings) and the Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration (6 awards, $750 thousand potential value). The airport authority's federal grant footprint is exclusively airport infrastructure and capital improvement work routed through the FAA; it carries no federal contracts, no sub-recipient awards, and no seat on federal IDIQs or GWACs.