East Arkansas Community College

East Arkansas Community College, a state-controlled institution of higher learning headquartered in Forrest City, Arkansas, operates as a prime recipient of federal contracts and grants for vocational occupational skills training and inmate workforce development, with no set-asides applied across its federal award footprint. The college holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $1,035,281.49 through September 2027 with the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City for diesel technology and HVAC instructor services, under which it has issued 21 task orders carrying $1.1 million in combined potential value. Recent delivery orders under this IDC include a $75,000 order issued February 25, 2026 for diesel technology instruction, a $149,410 order for diesel technology instruction with ultimate completion July 31, 2025, and a $48,775 order for diesel technology and HVAC instruction with ultimate completion June 12, 2025. The college's work centers on providing approximately 40 inmate slots annually in diesel technology and 20 in HVAC, delivered Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Forrest City facility.

Customer concentration is extreme and localized. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City accounts for 91 awards and $4 million in combined potential value — 76% of award count and 62% of combined potential value — with the remainder split across five agencies. The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education holds 11 awards, the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration holds 7 awards, and the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration and the broader Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons each hold single awards. East Arkansas Community College sits on five Bureau of Prisons IDCs, with the largest generating 21 task orders and three others carrying between 13 and 18 task orders each, all under $1.1 million combined value or lower.

Grant work includes a $375,766 TRIO Student Support Services (CFDA 84.042) Project Grant from the Office of Postsecondary Education running September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026 to provide student retention and financial literacy services; a $449,088 Project Grant from the Delta Regional Authority under the Delta Area Economic Development program (CFDA 90.201) for the Arkansas Delta Trucking Academy running October 1, 2023 to October 1, 2025; and two Education Stabilization Fund grants (CFDA 84.425) from the Office of Postsecondary Education in 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 totaling $423,979 for COVID-19 pandemic response and student support. The college acts as sub-recipient on a healthcare workforce-development grant from the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College dated April 22, 2025. Recent activity has been sparse — one award in 2026, four in 2025, three in 2023 — with combined obligated dollars ($20.8 million) significantly exceeding combined potential value ($6.5 million) across the award lifetime, signaling heavy invoicing against older small awards. Only one award faces recompete within the next twenty-four months.