City Of Minot

City of Minot, a North Dakota municipality based in Minot, operates as a federal grant recipient and occasional delivery-order contractor, delivering airport infrastructure improvements, public transit capital equipment, and utility services to federal agencies with substantial concentration in direct federal grants to the city itself rather than prime contracting activity. The city acts as prime recipient on 370 of 392 recent awards (94%), with the remaining 22 awards (6%) flowing through state pass-through grantees or as sub-awards to regional partners.

The city's federal footprint splits sharply between two capability domains. The first and dominant line is airport infrastructure modernization—taxiway and runway rehabilitation, drainage and wildlife hazard mitigation, lighting and snow removal equipment acquisition, and terminal improvements at Minot International Airport. The second is public transit capital and operating assistance through the Federal Transit Administration's formula grants, including fixed-route operations, preventive maintenance, paratransit service, and fare collection system upgrades. Grant work dominates by volume and dollar magnitude. Representative prime recipient awards include a $6.829 million FAA Airport Improvement Program project grant (CFDA 20.106) from August 2024 for taxiway rehabilitation and lighting replacement, a $3.114 million Federal Transit Formula Grant (CFDA 20.507) from July 2025 for fixed-route operations and paratransit service, a $23.6 million DOD Office of Economic Adjustment project grant (CFDA 12.600) from September 2021 for the Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Project, and a $1.219 million FAA Airport Improvement Program grant from August 2025 for runway reconstruction and taxiway realignment. The city also holds a single delivery-order contract with Air Combat Command for $18,091 covering utility bill payments for the base hospital at Minot Air Force Base, with ultimate completion in February 2024.

Customer concentration reflects the city's geography and infrastructure priorities. The Department of the Air Force dominates by award count—217 awards, representing 73% of the top-five customer concentration—though most are zero-dollar or minimal-value utility billing and facilities operations deliveries under two large indefinite delivery contracts (F3260470D0089 with 212 task orders carrying $18 thousand combined potential value, and F3260473D0074 with 4 task orders). The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Central Office Office of Leasing anchors the potential-value ranking with 16 awards carrying $7.5 million combined potential value, primarily real property lease deliveries under Basic Ordering Agreement GS08B13998, which carries 56 task orders valued at $13.5 million. The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Great Lakes Region issued 25 awards; the FAA nationally issued 18 additional awards. The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 8 round out the active set. The city serves 22 distinct federal agencies across prime and sub-award roles.

Federal grant work predominates. The city is a direct recipient under the FAA Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106), the Federal Transit Administration's Urbanized Area Formula Funding Program (CFDA 20.507), the DOD Office of Economic Adjustment's Community Economic Adjustment Assistance program (CFDA 12.003) and Community Investment program (CFDA 12.600), HUD's Community Development Block Grant program (CFDA 14.218), and the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance's Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant and related block grant programs. Sub-award activity flows primarily through the North Dakota Department of Transportation and the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality for water infrastructure, transportation planning, and hazmat regional response team sustainability.

Activity has grown modestly—seven awards in 2022 to a peak of 17 in 2024, with 14 awards in 2025 and 2 year-to-date in 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal: only five awards with combined potential value of $9 thousand face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The city's award portfolio reflects its role as a municipal infrastructure steward leveraging federal capital grants and operating assistance programs rather than as a competitive federal contractor; the indefinite delivery contracts and basic ordering agreements with GSA and Air Force are utilities and facilities vehicles that flow from the city's operational presence at and around federal installations, not from competitive procurement posture. Combined potential value across all 392 awards stands at $16.5 million, though combined obligated dollars ($395.9 million) reflect prior-year grant funding maturity and long-term infrastructure project lifecycles spanning multiple fiscal years.