County Of Malheur

County of Malheur, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Vale, Oregon, operates as a prime recipient and subrecipient on federal grants (29% prime, 71% sub) delivering law enforcement services, natural resource management, and public recreation facility operations to the Department of the Interior, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Justice. The county does not hold federal contracts as a prime contractor and does not sit on government-wide contract vehicles; its federal footprint is grant-funded and grant-distributed through state intermediaries, particularly the Oregon Health Authority.

County of Malheur's prime grant work centers on Bureau of Land Management invasive species management and Bureau of Reclamation recreation site operations. A $100,000 cooperative agreement awarded by BLM on February 2, 2026, under the Good Neighbor Authority program (CFDA 15.015) funds the Malheur County Noxious Weed Department partnership with the Vale District BLM to conduct comprehensive weed surveys using GPS technology, targeted control methods across public roads, private lands, and BLM-managed areas, and ongoing monitoring through February 1, 2031. Priority species include rush skeletonweed, yellow starthistle, leafy spurge, and knapweeds. Separately, the Bureau of Reclamation awarded Malheur County $1,143,814.56 as a project grant under the Recreation Resources Management program (CFDA 15.524) on August 20, 2025, to operate and maintain Bully Creek Reservoir and Beulah Reservoir recreation sites through September 30, 2030, including staffing for 40 RV campsites with electrical hookups, 22 toilet facilities with showers, 4 restrooms, day-use shelters, 14 acres of lawn and landscape maintenance, and waste management services. A companion $243,077 project grant from Bureau of Reclamation on August 4, 2025, funds replacement of the failed water system at Bully Creek Park through November 30, 2026. The county also holds a prime purchase order with the Department of the Interior's Oregon-Washington Region for Malheur County Law Enforcement Services valued at $380,000, running through September 30, 2031, and a smaller prior purchase order from Bureau of Reclamation for law enforcement on federally administered lands valued at $36,887.76 (completed February 28, 2025).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington (15 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value) and the Bureau of Reclamation (7 awards, $359 thousand), which together anchor 58% of recent awards by count and represent 100% of quantified potential value in the top five customer ranking. The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime, and the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health also appear in the top five by award count (19, 12, and 3 awards respectively), but these awards flow to the county as subrecipient through the Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Department of Justice rather than as direct prime recipients.

Malheur County's subrecipient footprint is dominated by pass-through awards from the Oregon Health Authority–Public Health for public health financial assistance agreements (2023–2027 cycles), reproductive health services in corrections facilities, mental health and substance abuse services financing, and overdose and infectious disease prevention. The county also receives subrecipient awards from the Oregon Department of Justice for victim services coordination and human trafficking task force support, and from unnamed state intermediaries for Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) funding disaster preparedness and communications infrastructure — including P-25 radio system upgrades at multiple repeater sites, courthouse election security measures, and emergency communications plan updates. Awards obligated across the portfolio total $18.1 million against $1.8 million in combined potential value, reflecting closure of historical awards. Three awards (combined potential value $540 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The county's subsidiary, Malheur County Soil and Water Conservation District, does not appear in the award listing and contributes no visible federal revenue signal in the source data.