Ouray County

Ouray County, a U.S. local government entity based in Ouray, Colorado, operates as a federal grant sub-recipient and holds one small federal contract prime award (a land rental purchase order with the U.S. Forest Service), placing it overwhelmingly in a sub-recipient role across health, public safety, and emergency management grant programs routed through Colorado state agencies.

Ouray County is a county government with no SBA designations applicable to government entities. Its federal footprint consists of eighty-two total awards spanning 2008 to August 2026, but the composition is heavily skewed toward grant sub-awards: two prime awards (2%) versus eighty sub-awards (98%). The single contract prime award is a $72,450 purchase order from the U.S. Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) for land rental services in Delta, Colorado, with performance through August 9, 2026. Grant sub-award activity dominates the portfolio: Ouray County receives monthly or quarterly pass-through allocations from Colorado state agencies that administer federal health, welfare, and emergency management grants.

The county's federal grant sub-award footprint centers on five core federal programs flowing through state intermediaries. The largest funding stream by award count comes from the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (twenty awards) and Administration for Children and Families (nine awards), primarily county-administration functions under the State of Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. The county also receives recurring sub-awards for public health emergency preparedness, maternal and child health block grants, and women-infants-children (WIC) programs via the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; law enforcement-based victim services through the Colorado Department of Public Safety; public assistance administration through the Colorado Department of Human Services; and emergency management preparedness (EMPG) and hazard mitigation (HMGP) grants. A smaller stream includes COVID-related detection and immunization expansion grants.

Award activity accelerated in 2023–2024 (eighteen awards in 2023, twenty-nine in 2024) before declining to fourteen awards in 2025 and eight in the first two months of 2026, reflecting the wind-down of temporary pandemic-related health grants. The combined potential value across all eighty-two awards totals $72,000, but obligated dollars across the portfolio reach $2.9 million, indicating that most grant awards are recurring annual or quarterly allocations with modest individual ceilings but substantial cumulative obligation. The county serves nineteen distinct federal agencies through state intermediaries, though the active customer set is concentrated in HHS components (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Administration for Children and Families, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs.

Ouray County does not hold seats on any federal contract vehicles, GWACs, or agency-wide IDIQs. All sub-awards route through Colorado state prime grantees, making the county a county-level service delivery and administration entity for federal health, welfare, and emergency management programs rather than a federal contractor or independent grant recipient.