Glocester School Department

Glocester School Department, a public school district in Chepachet, Rhode Island, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, operating under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (CFDA 84.358A) as a formula grant recipient rather than as a federal contractor or vendor.

Glocester is a U.S. local government entity — a public school district — with no federal contract prime awardees and therefore no presence on federal procurement vehicles, IDIQs, GWACs, BPAs, or agency-wide acquisition contracts. Its federal footprint consists entirely of grant work: ten prime grant awards and four sub-grant awards across fourteen total federal awards spanning from 2017 through 2026, with a combined obligated value of $1 million. The school district is not a federal contractor and does not compete for federal contract work.

The district's customer concentration is entirely within federal grant programs. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 13 of the 14 awards, all under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grant, with awards issued annually from 2022 through 2026 at regular July-1 intervals. Each prime award carries an ultimate completion date of September 30 of the following fiscal year, establishing an annual grant-funding cadence. A single sub-grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 (April 2025, PFAS Treatment System Design) rounds out the EPA footprint. In its sub-grant role, Glocester has received funding through the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education under Title I-CRP, Title II-CRP, and Title IV-CRP sub-awards (October 2022), and from the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank for PFAS treatment system design (April 2025).

Activity has averaged fewer than one award per year over the last five years — one award in 2023, one in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — with only a single award obligated to completion within the next twenty-four months (the FY 2026 Small, Rural School Achievement Program award). Glocester is not a vendor that federal contractors would engage as a teaming partner, subcontractor, or acquisition target; it operates exclusively as a public school recipient of federal education and environmental grant funds.