Montana Rural Water Systems Association, Inc.

Montana Rural Water Systems Association, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Great Falls, Montana, operates as a sub-recipient on federal grant awards focused on training and technical assistance for rural and tribal water and wastewater systems, with no direct federal contracting footprint and no SBA set-aside designations.

The organization's federal activity centers on sub-award work under the National Rural Water Association as the prime grant recipient. Montana Rural Water Systems Association has received twelve sub-awards across fiscal years 2023 through 2025, all flowing from National Rural Water Association grants. The specific work involves employing and deploying specialized technical staff — Water Quality Action Specialists, Training Specialists, Funding Specialists, Apprenticeship Coordinators, and Wastewater Technicians — to deliver training and technical assistance focused on Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) compliance, sustained operations and maintenance, financing planning and acquisition, and apprenticeship development. Representative sub-awards include two positions (a Water Quality Action Specialist and a second specialist in operations/maintenance support for decentralized wastewater systems) dated September 2025; a Funding Specialist role (July 2025) centered on financing planning and acquisition; a Training Specialist position (August 2025) supporting tribal, small, and rural public water systems on SDWA compliance and sustainability; and an Apprenticeship Coordinator role (October 2024) designed to increase apprenticeship participation and placement within rural water sectors.

Customer concentration reflects the source of the underlying National Rural Water Association grants. The Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water accounts for 8 of the 14 tracked awards (covering 78% of the award count); the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service provides 4 awards; and the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region provides 2 awards ($100 combined potential value). The combined potential value across all 18 tracked awards (prime and sub combined) is $300, but the combined dollars obligated across these awards is $1.2 million, indicating that the source data captures a time-lagged snapshot of obligation activity relative to award designation.

Montana Rural Water Systems Association holds six direct prime grants and twelve sub-awards in the federal award portfolio over the captured period. Activity has been episodic: one award in 2011, one in 2012, three in 2023, four in 2024, and five in 2025. Service Contract Inventory reporting captures only two records for the organization (both as a named subcontractor), each reporting 3.0 FTEs in fiscal years 2022 and 2024; SCI covers federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and does not include grant staffing or sub-award labor below that threshold, so these figures represent a narrow slice of the organization's total federal activity and do not characterize its full footprint. The organization does not hold federal contract vehicles, does not appear as a federal contract prime awardee, and does not compete under set-asides.