County Of Rensselaer

County Of Rensselaer, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in East Greenbush, New York, operates federal award activity primarily as a grant sub-recipient (96% of 338 total awards) and retains a small prime contract and grant footprint focused on detention center services and lead hazard remediation. The county competes full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its federal work.

The county's prime federal work centers on two concrete capability areas. It holds a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, awarded September 30, 2025, with a $36,103.50 ceiling running through July 31, 2030, to provide secure custody, full medical care, and meal services for federal detainees at the Rensselaer County Detention Center in Swanton, Vermont. A $6,500 BPA call under that agreement was issued August 1, 2026 with ultimate completion July 31, 2027. The county also received a Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control project grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control awarded December 1, 2022 with ultimate completion December 1, 2026.

Federal grant sub-award activity dominates the portfolio. The county acts as sub-recipient under pass-through arrangements from New York State entities, principally the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. Sub-awards cover Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs, child and family services, workforce development under WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) administered through the Department of Labor, food and nutrition programs from the Department of Agriculture, and emergency management and victim assistance grants. Recent examples include recurring TANF sub-awards from New York State's Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance dated throughout 2025 and 2026, children and family services sub-awards from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services dated monthly from June 2024 through August 2026, and workforce development sub-awards from the Department of Labor New York covering PY25 and PY26 adult and dislocated-worker programs (July 2025) and an Employment Transition Model (ETM) sub-award (July 2026).

Award activity accelerated sharply: nine awards in 2022, 21 in 2023, 119 in 2024, 98 in 2025, and 68 in 2026 through August. The acceleration reflects the frequency of recurring grant sub-awards rather than new capability deployment. Top customer concentration is pronounced—the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for 185 of 268 named awards (69% by count), with the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Department of Labor rounding out the top tier. The recompete cliff is minimal: only one award with combined potential value of $7 thousand completes within the next twenty-four months. Combined obligated dollars ($94.4 million) substantially exceed combined potential value ($49 thousand), a condition typical of mature recurring grant sub-awards where annual allocations flow regularly but each individual sub-award carries a small nominal ceiling. The county's federal footprint is characterized by stable, recurring social services and emergency-management grant pass-through work rather than competitive procurement growth.