Metropolitan Airport Authority Of Peoria

Metropolitan Airport Authority Of Peoria, a U.S. municipal airport authority headquartered in Peoria, Illinois, receives federal grant funding from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration for airport infrastructure modernization and operations support rather than serving as a federal contractor. The authority acts as a grant recipient under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and related federal aviation programs, with no prime federal contract awards but substantial recent grant activity totaling $8.8 million in combined potential value across 130 awards.

The authority's federal footprint is dominated by airport infrastructure grants from the FAA's Great Lakes Region and facility-leasing arrangements with the General Services Administration. Recent FAA grants include a $14.5 million Project Grant awarded June 24, 2025, for Phase 3 tower shaft construction at the sponsor-owned, FAA-operated General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport traffic control tower; an $8,042,840 grant awarded September 8, 2025, for taxiway rehabilitation across multiple taxiway segments totaling 6,836 linear feet; and a $2,417,904 grant awarded August 18, 2025, for final-phase Taxiway A reconstruction. Earlier phases of the traffic control tower project received $14,747,368 (awarded August 7, 2024, for Phase 2 base building and foundation construction) and are funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Additional FAA grants support runway strengthening ($9.3 million, awarded August 23, 2022), terminal apron expansion ($7.11 million, awarded August 31, 2021), and taxiway design work ($409,914, awarded September 12, 2023). The authority also received American Rescue Plan Act economic-relief grants for airport operations, concession support, and pandemic response totaling $11.4 million across awards dated August 2021 and January 2022.

Top customers by award count include the FAA Great Lakes Region (20 awards) and the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Central Office (14 awards, $2.2 million combined potential value), reflecting the authority's dual role as an FAA grant recipient and as a GSA leaseholder. The GSA awards, which cover 37% of the top five customer agencies' award count, appear to represent office-building leases rather than aviation services; GSA's Office of Leasing places orders under Basic Ordering Agreement GS05B17148, which carries 100 task orders and $6.2 million in combined potential value. The Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration holds six awards ($2.1 million combined potential value), supporting TSA activities at the airport. A single grant sub-award to the Illinois Department of Transportation, dated April 27, 2026, covers airfield drainage analysis.

The authority's award portfolio is concentrated in facility leasing and airport improvement grants rather than operational contracts. Category concentration data shows 101 of 130 awards classify under NAICS 541611 (Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings except Miniwarehouses), with 55 awards coded to PSC Lease/Rental of Office Buildings. Recent activity remains modest — two awards in 2026, three in 2025, one in 2024 — with only $18 thousand in combined potential value facing recompete within the next twenty-four months. The authority obligated $102.9 million across all awards, exceeding the combined potential value by more than tenfold, indicating that many grants have reached completion or substantial obligation status. Work is performed at General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport in Bartonville, Illinois, serving airports associated with the Peoria metropolitan area.