High Plains Educational Co-Op

High Plains Educational Co-Op, a Kansas school district and local government entity, receives federal grant sub-awards exclusively for special education funding passed through the Kansas State Department of Education, functioning as a grant sub-recipient rather than a prime contractor or grant recipient.

High Plains Educational Co-Op is a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Ulysses, Kansas, operating as a public school district with no prime contract vehicle participation and no direct federal contract awardee status. The vendor's entire federal footprint consists of nine grant sub-awards totaling $6.8 million obligated across a three-year window (2022 through 2025), all routed through the Kansas State Department of Education as the prime grantee. Sub-awards fund special education instruction and related services under multiple federal grant programs: IDEA Part B (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) reallocated and pass-through funds, Early Childhood programs, and Title IV-B education funding. The vendor has no GWAC, BPA, or agency-wide IDIQ participation, no multi-agency customer relationships, and no subcontracting exposure to federal prime contractors.

Customer concentration is absolute — all nine awards originate from the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) delivered via the state education agency pass-through mechanism. Award velocity has been episodic: two sub-awards in 2022, a three-year gap, then four sub-awards in 2024 and three in 2025. The most recent three sub-awards (November 2025, October 2025) include Title VI-B IDEA reallocated-funds pass-through, Early Childhood pass-through, and Title VI-B pass-through designations; prior cycles (2024, 2022) carried similar special-education funding streams. No dollar magnitudes are specified for individual sub-awards; the $6.8 million combined figure represents total obligations across all nine awards.

High Plains Educational Co-Op's federal relationship is characteristic of a rural school district receiving sub-grants for special education service delivery rather than a commercial vendor or contracted service provider. The district does not compete for federal work, does not appear on federal contract vehicles, and does not engage in prime or subcontracting relationships outside the education grant pass-through system.