County Of Placer

County Of Placer, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Auburn, California, receives federal formula grants and project grants as a prime recipient (72% of recent awards) and sub-recipient for public transit operations, fleet modernization, emergency management, and wildfire preparedness — with no federal contract prime or sub footprint.

Placer County's federal award portfolio is concentrated almost entirely within the transportation and emergency-management sectors. The Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration dominates the footprint with 44 awards, funding operating assistance, preventive maintenance, and capital procurement for two regional transit systems: Placer County Transit (PCT) serving the Sacramento urbanized area and Tahoe Truckee Area Regional Transit (TART) serving the Tahoe urbanized area and Nevada. Representative prime grants include a $4,928,596 Federal Transit Formula Grants award (CFDA 20.507) obligated February 9, 2026, providing two years of operating assistance and preventive maintenance for PCT through September 30, 2025, with capital funding for up to six replacement vehicles; a $4.72 million Federal Transit Formula Grants award (CFDA 20.507) from September 10, 2025, supporting two years of TART operating assistance and preventive maintenance through September 30, 2026; and three separate $1.65 million Buses and Bus Facilities Formula grants (CFDA 20.526) awarded between September and December 2025 to fund replacement bus purchases for the TART fleet. Placer County also received a $1,601,234 project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Community Project Funds program (CFDA 10.730) awarded September 25, 2024, for wildfire defense planning and analysis in the Baker Ranch Shirttail Canyon area, scheduled for completion July 1, 2027.

As a sub-recipient, Placer County receives pass-through funding from state agencies, notably the California Department of Public Health for vaccine and immunization programs (multiple awards since 2024) and the California Office of Emergency Services for disaster recovery, emergency protective measures, debris removal, and homeland security preparedness activities. The Federal Emergency Management Agency holds eight prime awards to Placer County and four additional awards, concentrated in emergency management and disaster response; sub-awards from FEMA flow through the state Office of Emergency Services.

The recompete cliff shows ten awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, concentrating recompete risk in FTA transit-operations and maintenance grants. Placer County does not anticipate sub-awards on any of its prime grants; the entity maintains direct responsibility for all grant administration and service delivery. Combined obligated dollars across all 78 awards total $105 million against a combined potential-value figure of $33 thousand (a data anomaly reflecting the source's treatment of formula-grant ceilings), with the FTA footprint anchoring both volume and dollars across the active grant portfolio.