Miami-Cass County Rural Electric Membership Corporation

Miami-Cass County Rural Electric Membership Corporation, a nonprofit rural electric cooperative headquartered in Peru, Indiana, acts as a sub-recipient on federal broadband infrastructure grants awarded through state intermediaries, delivering fiber-optic network construction and broadband service deployment to rural communities in Indiana.

The vendor's federal footprint is sparse and specialized. The source records 47 total awards spanning 1995 to 2022, but recent activity is concentrated: eleven awards in 2022, then no recorded activity through 2026. The combined potential value across all awards is $8.6 million, though the combined dollars obligated ($75.7 million) suggests substantial execution on older work. The vendor operates primarily as a prime recipient (77% of awards) on federal grants rather than as a contractor. Its four customer agencies are the Department of the Air Force (26 awards), the Department of the Treasury Departmental Offices (11 awards), the Air Force Reserve Command (5 awards, $6.7 million combined potential value), and the Air Force Defense Finance and Accounting Service (3 awards, $1.9 million combined potential value). The Air Force Reserve Command and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service dominate the potential-value ranking despite appearing in fewer awards than the main Air Force line, indicating smaller individual amounts spread across the core Air Force customer base.

The vendor's category concentration reflects its core mission: 34 awards are coded to PSC Utilities-Electric, with electric power distribution as the leading NAICS. Miami-Cass County operates under two indefinite delivery vehicles — Indefinite Delivery Contract F1261797D0001 (16 task orders, $1.8 million combined potential value) and Indefinite Delivery Contract F1261795D0006 (14 task orders) — though the parent-vehicle framing is atypical for a cooperative and suggests these may reflect utility-service contracts rather than traditional federal procurement vehicles.

The most recent federal work in the source consists of multiple sub-grant awards dated April 28, 2022, all flowing from the State of Indiana as prime grantee. Miami-Cass County is listed as a sub-recipient on a broadband infrastructure project spanning 1,366 passings across Carroll, Cass, Miami, and White County, Indiana, with a federal grant amount of $5,888,471.92 and a local match of $1,472,117.63 for a total project cost of $7.36 million. The project was designed to deliver symmetrical download and upload speeds of 100 Mbps, or where impracticable, 100 Mbps download with 20–100 Mbps upload, scalable to symmetrical 100 Mbps. This represents the only visible federal grant activity in the recent record; no awards appear after April 2022, and no federal contracts are held directly as prime awardees.