County Of Ravalli

County Of Ravalli, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Hamilton, Montana, operates as both a federal grant recipient and a prime contractor delivering airport infrastructure, land and facility-use services, and emergency management support to federal agencies. The county competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations and acts as a 50/50 split between prime awardee (36 awards) and sub-recipient on federal grants (36 awards).

The county's federal footprint centers on airport infrastructure and land-lease services. On the prime contract side, County Of Ravalli holds a $250,000 single-award indefinite delivery contract with the National Interagency Fire Center (awarded June 1, 2024, through December 31, 2028) for use of Ravalli County Airport as a helibase and single-engine air tanker staging facility, including portable toilets, fire suppression supplies, and helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft support operations. On the contract delivery-order side, the county received a $157,900 firm fixed-price purchase order from the U.S. Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) for land rental services, a $96,000 purchase order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) for land and facility use, a $7,300 log deck land-use agreement for the Bitterroot National Forest, and a $4,971 delivery order from Forest Service Region 1 (awarded July 27, 2025, ultimate completion October 1, 2025). As a grant recipient, County Of Ravalli has received $615,789 from the Federal Aviation Administration under the Airport Improvement Program and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Programs (CFDA 20.106, awarded September 5, 2025) to construct a new 12,720-square-yard apron at Hamilton Airport, and $1.1 million under the same program (awarded September 2, 2025) for identical apron-construction work through September 1, 2029. The county also received $229,969 under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116, awarded June 25, 2026) and $144,211 under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117, awarded June 25, 2026) for pavement reseal and resurfacing at Hamilton-Ravalli County Airport, both with completion dates of June 24, 2030. An earlier FAA grant of $32,000 (2022) provided COVID-19 relief funds for airport operations.

Customer concentration reflects the county's airport-centric portfolio. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 60% of recent awards: the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration Northwest Mountain Region (14 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (9 awards), the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Region 1 (7 awards, $174,000 combined potential value), the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (7 awards), and the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration broadly (6 awards). By potential value, the Forest Service's National Interagency Fire Center anchors the largest single award at $250,000; the remaining contract and grant dollars cluster around smaller land-rental and facility-use orders under $200,000 each. The county serves 21 distinct federal agencies across the award footprint.

Activity has remained modest and relatively stable over the past five years (7 awards in 2022, 6 in 2023, 8 in 2024, 5 in 2025, 2 in the first half of 2026), with combined potential value across all 72 awards totaling $520,000. However, the source reports $28.9 million in combined dollars obligated across all awards, indicating that historical invoiced value substantially exceeds stated potential-value ceilings — a signal of multi-year grant awards carrying large cumulative value even when individual-year potential values are modest. The county's sub-recipient role concentrates on public health, emergency management, and victim services. Recent sub-awards include funding from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation for the East Fork Private Land Powerline Fuel Mitigation Project (September 2025); from the State of Montana Department of Health and Human Services for Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP), Maternal and Child Health Block Grant (MCHBG), Immunization Programs (IZ), and public health services broadly (multiple awards 2021–2025); from the Montana Board of Crime Control for Victim Services and Victim of Crime Act (VOCA) services (2023); and from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition services (2021–2023). The county also received a HUD Community Project Funding / Congressional Directed Spending award (August 13, 2024) for economic development, with completion through August 31, 2032.

County Of Ravalli operates without subsidiary entities and does not hold seats on government-wide contract vehicles or major BPAs; task-order volume under named parent vehicles is negligible. The county's capability footprint, grounded in NAICS codes for support activities for forestry and lessors of real estate property, aligns narrowly with Montana airport infrastructure and land-resource management — a regionally constrained, full-and-open competitive posture tied to county ownership of airport and real-property assets rather than a scalable federal services business model.