County Of Scott

County Of Scott, doing business as Administration, is a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, that operates as a federal grant recipient and occasional federal contractor providing emergency medical services, law enforcement task force administration, and public health programming to federal and state agencies. The county functions as a prime recipient on federal grants (48% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient flowing federal funding through state intermediaries (52% of awards), with no SBA set-aside designations or contracting vehicles.

The county's federal footprint splits between two operational domains. On the contract side, County Of Scott holds two ambulance transport purchase orders with the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Administrative Security US Penitentiary Thomson, valued at $27,412 (awarded November 2025, completion September 2026) and $43,467 (awarded October 2024, completion September 2025), providing emergency medical services ambulance transportation from MercyOne Hospital in Clinton, Iowa to other medical facilities. These represent targeted service delivery for federal correctional facility operations with no set-aside designation.

On the grant side, the county functions as a prime recipient for Bureau of Justice Assistance block grants supporting the Scott County Special Operations Unit Task Force (SCSOUTF), a multi-agency narcotics task force with a three-tiered operational approach combining covert and overt narcotics interdiction, education, and violence prevention. The county holds two active BJA block grant awards: one awarded October 2023 with ultimate completion September 2027, and a prior cycle awarded October 2022 with completion September 2026. SCSOUTF partners include the Davenport Police Department, Bettendorf Police Department, Scott County Sheriff's Office, the Scott County Attorney's Office, the FBI, the DEA, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for Iowa. The task force measures success by narcotics seizures, arrests, weapons removed, and educational presentations delivered to community students and civic leaders.

The county also acts as a sub-recipient for federal grants flowing through state intermediaries, with 25 sub-awards distributed across the Iowa Department of Public Health, the Iowa Department of Justice, and the Iowa Department of Public Safety. These sub-awards fund immunization programs (particularly COVID-19 pandemic response and ongoing vaccine confidence initiatives), disease intervention and HIV/STI prevention and testing services, criminal investigations for violence against women (domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking), traffic safety enforcement and occupant protection programs, drug task force overtime, and pre-charge youth diversion programming. The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance dominates the customer base by award count (14 awards) and accounts for all measured potential value ($71 thousand combined across two penitentiary service contracts); the Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Health Resources and Services Administration round out active federal relationships.

Activity has accelerated sharply, from one award in 2022 to fifteen in 2025, though the source reflects only two awards year-to-date in 2026. Of the 48 total awards, only one faces recompete within the next twenty-four months. The corporate structure includes Scott County Library as a named subsidiary. County Of Scott operates with no prime federal contract vehicles, federal contractors seeking federal procurement opportunities do not encounter this entity as a competitor or teaming option, but state and local government procurement professionals integrating federal pass-through funding may identify the county as a sub-recipient partner for matching funds or co-implementation of public health, public safety, and emergency services programs.