County Of Lander

County of Lander, a local government entity headquartered in Battle Mountain, Nevada, acts as a federal grant recipient funding airport infrastructure, emergency management, healthcare, and community development projects across the rural Nevada region. The county holds no federal contracts; its footprint consists entirely of grant awards—99% as prime recipient, 1% as sub-recipient under Nevada Health Authority on an EMS workforce development grant. As a public entity, the county operates outside SBA set-aside categories and competes in full-and-open grant programs.

The county's customer base is heavily concentrated in the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Western Pacific Region, which accounts for 29 of the county's 48 named awards—the single largest customer by award volume. The FAA has funded successive phases of Battle Mountain Airport and Austin Airport improvements spanning taxiway and runway rehabilitation, weather reporting equipment installation, precision approach path indicators, apron expansion, and a 9,600-square-foot sponsor-owned hangar. Representative FAA awards include a $3.666 million formula grant under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116) on August 4, 2026, for Phase 2 construction of taxiway B realignment and runway rehabilitation; a $648 thousand formula grant on August 29, 2024, for beacon and precision approach path indicator installation; and a $1.112 million formula grant on June 23, 2022, for construction of three new taxilanes ranging from 115 to 250 feet. The second-largest customer is the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region, which awarded the county a cooperative agreement in 2022 for fuel reduction treatments, fire breaks, and wildlife habitat restoration in the wildland-urban interface around Lander County—work designed to reduce wildfire threat through sage grouse and mule deer habitat restoration, invasive grass reduction, and riparian improvements.

Beyond airport and land-management work, the county has received healthcare and economic development funding. The Department of Health and Human Services Healthcare Systems Bureau awarded an $800 thousand project grant in September 2023 for construction of the Austin Health Clinic, a purpose-built facility in an isolated community where the county previously leased unsuitable space for medical services. The U.S. Small Business Administration congressional community project funding awarded $1 million in October 2023 to the Lander County Convention & Tourism Authority for small business development and entrepreneurship programming. The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a project grant in July 2024 for the Lander County Sheriff's Office crime prevention technology project, funding equipment procurement to enhance operational capabilities in investigation and response across both populated and remote terrain. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development has made two awards under community project funding—one in August 2024 (with completion target August 2032) and another in February 2023 (completion August 2031)—for economic development initiatives that remain incompletely specified in source documentation.

Award activity has remained modest and flat across the past five years—three awards in 2022, four in 2023, five in 2024, two in 2025, and five through September 2026. The combined potential value across all 79 awards in the source data totals $1.4 million; however, combined dollars obligated stand at $29.8 million, indicating that earlier awards carry substantially larger dollar volumes than recent allocations. Only two awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited recompete exposure. The county holds positions on two parent vehicles: a Blanket Purchase Agreement (INL09PA00263) carrying five task orders totaling $14 thousand combined potential value, and an Indefinite Delivery Contract (NCL000166) carrying five task orders totaling $577 thousand combined potential value. One sub-award places the county as sub-recipient under Nevada Health Authority's EMS workforce retention and leadership succession program granted by the Department of the Interior (awarded September 28, 2026). The corporate structure reflects three named subsidiaries: two county government entities and a hospital authority, all within the parent county frame.