County Of Jefferson

County Of Jefferson, a New York local government entity headquartered in Watertown, operates through its Jefferson County Treasurer Division to deliver federal facility leasing, military confinement services, airport infrastructure grants, and social services administration as a prime grant recipient (36% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on pass-through federal funding streams (64% of awards). The county competes without set-asides and operates as a U.S. local government under NAICS 922140 (Correctional Institutions) and NAICS 6798 (Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings).

Federal contract work centers on two areas. The U.S. Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region maintains two single-award blanket purchase agreements with Jefferson County for pre- and post-trial military confinement services, totaling $879.4 thousand in ceiling value through November 2027. The county issued two BPA calls in fiscal 2025 and 2026, each valued at $150 thousand, leveraging the county's existing detention infrastructure in Watertown to house military personnel. Additionally, Jefferson County holds a General Services Administration Basic Ordering Agreement (GS02B23270) with 60 task orders valued at $2.7 million combined potential value, principally for office building leases and facilities management under the GSA Public Buildings Service. These contract vehicles anchor the $4.9 million combined potential value across all prime and sub awards in the source data.

Grant work dominates by award count and represents the largest customer concentration. The Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region has awarded Jefferson County over $13 million across nine grants for airport infrastructure improvements at Watertown-area airports in Dexter, New York, including a $3.26 million project grant (awarded September 2025) to construct a new 26,500-square-foot terminal facility and install one passenger boarding bridge, a $3.04 million project grant for runway reconstruction and airfield signage replacement, a $3.795 million Phase 2 project grant for additional runway rehabilitation and airfield sign reconstruction, a $1.21 million land acquisition grant for runway approach protection, and grants for obstruction removal, snow removal equipment replacement, and safety management system development running through 2030. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Community Planning and Development office awarded Jefferson County a $938.997 thousand HOME Investment Partnerships Program formula grant (CFDA 14.239) effective September 2025 through September 2034 for affordable housing rehabilitation, homebuyer assistance, and tenant-based rental assistance in the Watertown area. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $140.491 thousand SNAP Process and Technology Improvement Grants project grant (CFDA 10.580) in September 2024 to modernize SNAP application and eligibility determination systems.

The source documents 559 awards spanning calendar 2023 through August 2026, with activity accelerating from 12 awards in 2022 to 132 in 2024 and 125 in 2025, then moderating to 87 through August 2026. Notably, the combined dollars obligated across all awards ($164.5 million) far exceed the combined potential value ($4.9 million), indicating that the vast majority of the county's federal portfolio consists of pass-through grant sub-awards to state agencies and local organizations rather than new procurement. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 58% of all awards; by potential value, the Army (6 awards, $1.2 million) and GSA (17 awards, $1.1 million) dominate contract dollars, while HUD and USDA dominate grant dollars. The recompete cliff shows only three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months, combined potential value $150 thousand — all military confinement service calls under the Army BPAs expiring November 2027. Sub-award concentration reveals that Jefferson County acts as a fiscal agent and pass-through mechanism for New York State's Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, New York's Office of Children and Family Services, and New York's Department of Labor, funneling federal TANF (CFDA 93.558), child support enforcement, workforce development, and public health emergency preparedness funding to local programs within Jefferson County. The county's role in these streams is administrative coordination and sub-award management rather than direct service delivery.