County Of Lewis

County Of Lewis, a Washington State local government entity headquartered in Chehalis, Washington, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor on delivery orders and IDIQs, with secondary receipt of federal disaster-relief and emergency-management grants as a sub-recipient from the Washington State Military Department and Department of Social & Health Services. The county does not hold federal contract vehicles; it competes under full-and-open procurements and exercises authority as a government entity without SBA set-asides.

County Of Lewis's federal activity centers on airport infrastructure improvement, wildland-fire incident support, fish-passage habitat restoration, and emergency management. As a prime grant recipient, the county has received $315,789 from the Federal Aviation Administration under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116) for phase 2 design of an Automated Weather Observing System at Toledo-area airports (completion June 2030), $129,173 for phase 1 environmental assessment of a rotating beacon reconstruction project at Toledo airports (completion August 2029), and $200,531 for phase 1 environmental and design work on three infrastructure projects at Packwood Airport including a 10,000-square-yard tiedown apron, 800-foot parallel taxiway with connectors, and helipad (completion August 2029). The county received $264,455 from the Federal Highway Administration under the National Infrastructure Investments program (CFDA 20.933) for fish-passage design on Allen Creek at Newaukum Valley Road (completion June 2027). As a contractor, County Of Lewis holds a $250,000 multiple-award IDIQ with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (program code 55S, the Incident Support Packwood Airport Agreement, through December 2027), which enables rapid issuance of delivery orders for wildland-fire incident support and airport operations at Packwood Airport; delivery orders under this vehicle have ranged from $300 to $14,200. The county also received a $12,292 purchase order from the Forest Service for dispatch services supporting law enforcement in Lewis County (completion January 2026). As a sub-recipient, County Of Lewis has received numerous FEMA disaster-recovery and mitigation grants flowing through Washington State for recovery from severe winter storms, flooding, mudslides, and landslides, as well as sub-awards from the Washington State Recreation & Conservation Office for fish-passage habitat restoration projects on unnamed tributaries and Lucas Creek.

Customer concentration aligns heavily with transportation and emergency-management agencies. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 69% of recent awards: the Federal Aviation Administration and its Northwest Mountain Region office (34 awards combined, primarily for airport improvement grant phases), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (14 awards, disaster recovery and emergency-management performance grants), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (13 awards), and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (10 awards, $67 thousand combined potential value for incident support). The divergence between award count and potential value reflects the fact that FEMA and HUD grants arrive as numerous smaller sub-awards flowing through state intermediaries, while FAA grants and Forest Service incident-support work carry higher per-award dollar values. The county's combined federal potential value across all 103 awards stands at $319,000, though obligated dollars total $28.6 million, indicating substantial prior performance and completion of earlier phases.

The county's corporate structure includes named subsidiaries in the Lewis County Sheriff's Office, Lewis Conservation District, Lewis County Hospital District #1, and Lewis County Fire District #18, each operating as a U.S. local government entity and reflecting the county's operational breadth across public safety, land management, health care, and emergency services. Recent activity shows six awards in 2022, sixteen in 2023, thirteen in 2024, nine in 2025, and four year-to-date in 2026, indicating sustained federal engagement but not consistent growth trajectory. Only two awards carry ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure in the immediate window. The county operates as a prime recipient and contractor, not a subcontractor, and competes exclusively under full-and-open authority with no set-aside posture.