County Of Tillamook

County Of Tillamook, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Tillamook, Oregon, acts as a federal grant recipient and occasional contractor, delivering law enforcement support, emergency management infrastructure, environmental remediation, and fish passage restoration services to federal agencies and state intermediaries across the Pacific Northwest. The county operates as a prime grant recipient on 28% of its recent awards and as a subrecipient on 72%, with no contract set-asides and no recurring seat on federal IDIQs or GWACs; its federal footprint is heavily concentrated in grant work rather than competitively awarded federal contracts.

The county's prime contract work is minimal — two small purchase orders from the Bureau of Land Management's Oregon-Washington Region totaling $179 thousand for law enforcement patrol, investigation, and support services in Tillamook County (awarded March 2024 and April 2022, both firm fixed price, both running through 2028 and 2023 respectively). Its prime grant portfolio centers on environmental and infrastructure remediation. The Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded the county a $500 thousand Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 66.818, Brownfields Multipurpose Assessment, effective October 2025 through September 2029) to conduct Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments, develop cleanup plans, and engage the community on brownfields revitalization across Tillamook County. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funded a $2.5 million Cooperative Agreement (October 2022 through December 2026) to remove up to six failing county culverts that function as fish barriers and restore salmonid habitat across up to 9.2 miles in six streams. The Federal Highway Administration awarded two project grants (both December 2024) valued at $1.866 million and an unspecified amount to remove fish passage barrier culverts carrying Mill Creek and Myrtle Creek and replace them with fish-passage-friendly structures (completion February 2028 and December 2026 respectively).

Federal grant funding dominates the award portfolio by count and volume. The Federal Emergency Management Agency Financial Assistance program is the largest customer by award count (22 awards across the prime and sub footprints), followed by the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (8 awards), and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington Region (4 awards, $452 thousand combined potential value). Top-customer coverage by award count reaches 60% across these three agencies alone. The combined potential value of $538 thousand across all 68 awards reflects the county's primary role as a state-intermediary subrecipient; conversely, the source reports $26.9 million in combined dollars obligated, indicating substantial prior-year performance and grant completion.

The subrecipient footprint reveals the county's operational role as a line-item grantee beneath state intermediaries, particularly the Oregon Department of Justice (victim services, victim advocate staffing), the Oregon Department of Forestry (Tillamook Yard Debris Program for defensible-space debris disposal, awarded June 2025), the Oregon Department of Transportation (emergency repairs following December 2023 storm events, awarded June 2024), the Oregon Health Authority (rural health infrastructure support), and the Oregon Military Department (bridge and road repairs). Additional sub-awards fund emergency management capability development under successive fiscal-year EMPG Work Plans (awards August 2024, October 2023, October 2022), disaster shelter supplies and mobile command vehicles, and a domestic violence and sexual assault detective/investigator position managed through Tides Of Change (October 2022). The county received sub-grant funding for a comprehensive substance use disorder and opioid response initiative (Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program, COSSUP) under the Bureau of Justice Assistance (October 2023 through September 2026) to deliver crisis intervention training to law enforcement, distribute Narcan supplies, and fund peer support specialist positions.

Recent activity shows a decelerating pace — nine awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, twelve in 2024, four in 2025, and one in 2026 — with only four awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure. The corporate structure includes a named subsidiary, the Tillamook County Soil and Water Conservation District, a local government-owned entity with no separate award activity in the source data. The county's federal engagement is primarily regional, reactive to local infrastructure and public safety needs, and routed through established grant programs rather than competitive federal procurement.