Missouri Department Of Conservation

Missouri Department Of Conservation (doing business as Conservation Department), a state government entity and child agency of the State of Missouri, provides endangered species monitoring, habitat restoration, wildlife management, fisheries research, and forest health services to federal agencies as a grant recipient (98% of recent awards) and occasional prime contractor on federal delivery orders, with no SBA designations applicable to a state government entity.

The Department's federal footprint centers on ecological research and management for threatened and endangered species along the Missouri River and across Missouri's terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Representative contract work includes pallid sturgeon population monitoring and habitat assessment delivery orders from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ENDIST Omaha and Kansas City districts): $223.8 thousand for segments 9 and 10 of the Missouri River through September 2027; $127.4 thousand for segments 55 and 56 through January 2027; $271.5 thousand for mitigation site administration through September 2025; and a $231.9 thousand purchase order for land management services at Big Sandy National Wildlife Refuge mitigation sites through June 2026. The Department holds multiple Army Corps indefinite delivery contracts, including a $7 million vehicle for endangered species services (NAICS 927110 — Administration of Conservation Programs), under which delivery orders for pallid sturgeon research and site maintenance have been issued in the $50 thousand to $680 thousand range.

Federal grant awards dominate the Department's portfolio and anchor customer concentration with the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. FWS Region 3 funding (approximately 135 awards tracked) includes formula grants for sport fish restoration ($5.03 million for calendar-year 2026, $1.67 million for July 2025–June 2026), wildlife restoration and hunter education ($20.04 million and $6.03 million for fiscal-year awards covering July 2025–June 2026), state wildlife grants ($1.65 million formula grant for July 2025–June 2026, $422.5 thousand for a bumble bee atlas expansion project through December 2028), and cooperative endangered species conservation fund project grants ($361.4 thousand for lake sturgeon spawning documentation through June 2027, $800 thousand for grotto sculpin habitat acquisition through December 2025). USDA Forest Service grants (approximately 53 awards tracked) cover cooperative forestry assistance ($3.96 million for consolidated forest health and stewardship initiatives through June 2030; $630.4 thousand and $2.8 million for additional forest health and urban forestry work through 2029–2030), state and private forestry fire assistance ($339.3 thousand through June 2030, $1.03 million through June 2028), forest legacy program administration ($106.7 thousand through June 2029), and landscape-scale restoration under the Inflation Reduction Act ($5.0 million through December 2029 and $500 thousand through June 2029 for climate resilience and private forest landowner cost-sharing). The Department also receives USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service funding for technical assistance delivery to conservation programs (approximately 38 awards tracked), FWS fish and aquatic conservation grants for invasive carp management ($598 thousand through December 2026), and cooperative agreements with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Upper Mississippi River restoration long-term resource monitoring (field data collection through September 2028).

Customer concentration by dollar value is dominated by the Army Corps of Engineers — ENDIST Omaha ($28.5 million across 33 awards), ENDIST Kansas City ($8 million across 18 awards), and Army Corps main ($6.5 million across 25 awards) — reflecting the Department's role as the principal state partner for Missouri River pallid sturgeon recovery and mitigation site management. FWS and USDA awards track across roughly 70% of all recent awards by count but carry lower individual award values typical of formula and cooperative grants. The Department competes under no set-asides (state government entities are not eligible for SBA certifications) and operates exclusively as a grant recipient or prime contractor on full-and-open awards. Recent activity remains stable — 17 awards in 2022, 33 in 2023, 25 in 2024, 26 in 2025, and 14 in the first five months of 2026. The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months involves nine awards with combined potential value of $351 thousand, representing minimal near-term exposure relative to the Department's $43.1 million combined potential value portfolio. Sub-award footprint is minimal (13 sub-awards, 2% of total), primarily grant sub-awards routed through Missouri Department of Public Safety (infrastructure and facilities projects) and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Ducks Unlimited (wildlife habitat and wetlands restoration partnerships).