County Of Kittitas

County of Kittitas, a Washington county government entity based in Ellensburg, operates as a federal grant recipient (58% of recent awards) and subrecipient (42%), delivering airport infrastructure development, public safety services, and community health programming to federal agencies across ten distinct customer agencies, with no significant contracting vehicle footprint and modest recompete exposure over the next two years.

County of Kittitas is a U.S. local government entity organized as a county, structured as a parent organization with named subsidiaries including Kittcom (a council of governments), Kittitas County Fire Protection District 1, and Kittitas County Fire District. The county's federal footprint centers on grant work rather than federal contracting; recent awards total 96 (prime and sub combined), with a combined potential value of $530 thousand and obligated dollars of $36.4 million — a ratio indicating that many grants carry multi-year performance periods with upfront funding. The county competes in full-and-open categories without set-aside designations. Recent activity shows stability: four awards in 2022, rising to twelve in 2025, with nine awards through mid-2026. Across the portfolio, Police Protection (NAICS 922120) anchors eleven awards, including a $100 thousand sole-source procurement from the Bureau of Land Management (awarded June 6, 2025, through June 15, 2030) for law enforcement patrol services on BLM public lands within Kittitas County's jurisdiction.

Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) grants dominate the prime recipient footprint by award count. The county holds fourteen FAA awards for taxiway, taxilane, and apron rehabilitation and construction at Ellensburg Airport, spanning design, environmental mitigation, and construction phases. Representative examples include a $560 thousand formula grant (awarded July 7, 2023, with completion July 6, 2027) for the design phase of a 4,000-foot parallel taxiway project, a $1.077 million project grant (awarded July 31, 2023, with completion July 30, 2027) for environmental mitigation on the same taxiway, and a $451 thousand project grant (awarded June 11, 2024, with completion June 10, 2028) for taxilane and taxiway rehabilitation. A second-phase hangar taxilane extension project received $874 thousand in construction funding (awarded June 29, 2026, with completion June 28, 2030). The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Northwest Mountain Region accounts for fourteen awards in the top-customer ranking by count, though the two top-value rankings split significantly: the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington Region anchors the potential-value ranking with eleven awards and $428 thousand combined potential value, primarily the BLM patrol services contract.

The county holds four federal grants for community and public health initiatives. The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded $797 thousand (awarded October 1, 2023, with completion September 30, 2026) for medication-assisted treatment and recovery support services in the Kittitas County Jail under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substance Use Program (CFDA 16.838), building on an earlier $600 thousand BJA award in 2020. The same bureau awarded a smaller grant (awarded October 1, 2022, with completion September 30, 2026) under the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program for mental health and substance-abuse staffing and training at the county jail. The Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service awarded $1.05 million (awarded June 23, 2026, with completion June 23, 2028) under the Community Facilities Loans and Grants program (CFDA 10.766) for community project funding. The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration awarded $429 thousand (awarded July 3, 2023, with completion June 1, 2028) under the Safe Streets and Roads for All program (CFDA 20.939) for the Snoqualmie Pass Comprehensive Safety Action Plan.

Subrecipient activity (42% of awards) routes through Washington State agencies, primarily the Department of Health. Named sub-awards from the Department of Health include funding for public health emergency preparedness, COVID-19 vaccine coordination, communicable disease investigation, maternal and child health initiatives, and public health workforce development under CDC cooperative agreements and grants. Other Washington State subrecipient flows include the Department of Transportation (bridge bearing and roadway repair sub-awards), the Department of Commerce (energy audit for the courthouse and jail complex), the Military Department (COVID-19 emergency protective measures), and the Executive Office of the State of Washington (broadband infrastructure design and deployment). Federal sub-awards also include direct pass-through funding from FEMA Headquarters for flood mitigation mapping under the Cooperating Technical Partners Program ($290 thousand, awarded September 14, 2022) and several smaller sub-awards for community development block grants (HopeSource public services), homeland security preparedness, and cybersecurity programs.

The county's customer concentration by award count centers on the FAA Northwest Mountain Region (fourteen awards), Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington (eleven awards), Federal Highway Administration (ten awards), Bureau of Justice Assistance (five awards), and FEMA Headquarters (four awards); these five entities account for 46% of recent awards. The potential-value ranking surfaces tension: BLM Oregon-Washington dominates on dollars ($428 thousand combined potential value), while the FAA, FHWA, BJA, and EPA Region 10 split the remainder. Only one award faces completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete cliff exposure. The county operates without federal contract IDVs, GWACs, or parent contract vehicles; all work flows directly from federal grantor agencies or through state intermediaries. No private subcontracting relationships appear in the source material — the county's sub-award activity is exclusively government-to-government pass-through funding and coordination with state agencies and local nonprofits.