County Of Jefferson

County Of Jefferson, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Madras, Oregon, receives federal funding as a grant recipient (48% of recent awards as prime recipient) and federal contract awardee (52% as sub-recipient under state pass-through arrangements), with no small-business set-asides applied to any award. The county operates across public safety, emergency management, victim services, and transportation safety in rural Jefferson County, delivering law enforcement, domestic violence intervention, emergency preparedness, and community safety planning.

Prime contract work centers on law enforcement and emergency services delivery. The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $72,227.76 purchase order effective September 1, 2023 (through August 31, 2028) for law enforcement operations and security surveillance at Haystack Reservoir and Dam in Madras, Oregon, with an initial 12-month period and up to four additional 12-month option years. A second Reclamation purchase order issued July 1, 2026 (through June 30, 2027) for $3,069.81 covers NRT NFLE (National Response Team / Network for Local Education) Frontier 911 services for fiscal year 2026–2027, placing performance in Madras.

Prime grant awards reflect the county's rural public-safety and community-safety footprint. The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $950,000 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program grant (CFDA 16.589) to Jefferson County on October 1, 2024 (36-month project through September 30, 2027). The project establishes a multi-disciplinary domestic violence response team, conducts annual law enforcement protocol training, implements a domestic violence fatality review process, and provides victim advocacy services including a full-time bilingual advocate. The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration awarded $200,000 under the Safe Streets and Roads for All program (CFDA 20.939) on November 18, 2023 (through November 17, 2025) to develop a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan for Jefferson County, including data collection, stakeholder engagement, and feasibility studies.

The county's sub-recipient footprint spans federal pass-through funding from state agencies and local emergency management programs. Jefferson County receives Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) sub-awards from the Oregon Department of Emergency Management (FY 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025) to supplement day-to-day emergency management operational costs and core capability development. Sub-awards from the Oregon Department of Justice support victim services, including direct services for victims of crime (multiple awards dating to 2021) and staffing for bilingual domestic violence and sexual assault victim assistance, prosecution support, and victim coordination roles. Sub-awards from the Oregon Health Authority finance mental health and substance-use disorder services infrastructure (dating to 2021–2022, updated through April 2025). First-responder equipment grants fund P-25 VHF radio systems (2023, 2024), thermal imaging monocular equipment (2024), utility terrain vehicles (2022), body armor (2021), and night-vision goggles (2021). A sub-award effective March 16, 2026 in partnership with the Madras Community Food Pantry funds architectural design and construction of a 1,605 square-foot addition to a community facility.

Customer concentration reflects rural Oregon's multi-agency federal funding landscape. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation anchors the prime-contract dollar base with four awards worth $159,000 in combined potential value. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region, the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs (Victims of Crime), and the Office on Violence Against Women together place eleven and eight awards respectively with the county. Sub-award activity flows through the Oregon Department of Justice (domestic violence and victim services), Oregon Health Authority (mental health and substance-use disorder services), and Oregon Department of Human Services, with the latter managing pass-through grants for youth programs. Combined federal potential value across all sixty-one awards (prime and sub) sits at $211,000, with $12.8 million in total dollars obligated across the portfolio — a ratio reflecting the county's receipt of multi-year operational-support grants that dwarf the notional ceiling values in source data.

Recent activity has declined from twelve awards in 2023 to three awards each in 2025 and 2026 to date, with minimal recompete exposure — only one award (potential value $3,000) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The county's corporate structure includes Jefferson County Rural Fire Protection District #1 as a named subsidiary, surfacing wildland and structural fire operations capability beyond the county's direct public-safety footprint.