Muskegon Area First
Muskegon, MI West Michigan Apex Accelerator
- UEI
- XXMMA8E96Q59
- CAGE
- 319Y5
- Primary NAICS
- Not on record
- SAM.gov registration
- Active through
Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Other
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 380 W Western Ave #202, Muskegon, MI 49440, USA
- Website
- developmuskegon.org
- Founded
- 1999
- Employees
- 1-10
- Estimated annual revenue
- $0-$1M
- Industry
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- Industrials
- Commercial & Professional Services
- Professional Services
- Consulting
- SIC code
- 87 Engineering & Management Services
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Grant awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
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About the company
Muskegon Area First, operating through its West Michigan Apex Accelerator division, is a Michigan-based nonprofit community development corporation that delivers procurement technical assistance to regional businesses as a federal grant recipient, not as a federal contractor. The organization holds no federal contract vehicles and operates exclusively as a prime recipient of cooperative agreements and project grants from defense and economic development agencies.
Muskegon Area First's federal footprint centers on two core capability areas: Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) programming and regional economic development planning. As a PTAC operator, the organization provides free counseling, training, and technical guidance to help businesses navigate federal, state, and local government contracting, with particular focus on newly started enterprises and minority-owned firms seeking to participate in the government supply chain. The organization's most recent award is a $432,000 cooperative agreement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002), effective May 16, 2026 through April 30, 2027, to establish and maintain an APEX Accelerator center serving the Muskegon region. Prior PTAC cooperative agreements from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (May 1, 2025 through May 15, 2026; September 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024; and September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023) followed the same scope. In economic development, Muskegon Area First received a project grant from the Economic Development Administration (December 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024) to complete a county-wide broadband planning study in Muskegon County identifying gaps in internet service and deployment strategies, and an earlier EDA project grant (August 12, 2021) supporting master planning for two industrial parks in Muskegon Heights to aid the region's recovery from the 2016 closure of the BC Cobb coal-fired power plant.
Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense-aligned agencies. The Office of the Secretary of Defense accounts for three awards; the Defense Logistics Agency and its headquarters division account for fourteen awards across the source data, representing 91% of recent award volume. The Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services and Agricultural Marketing Service together account for two awards. Total federal dollars obligated across all awards (grant and contract) amount to $5.5 million over a twenty-year award history. Activity has been sparse and episodic—two awards in 2021, three in 2022, one in 2023, none in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026—with only one award reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.
Quick answers
Is Muskegon Area First registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Muskegon Area First's SAM.gov registration is active through October 27, 2026.
What is Muskegon Area First's most recent federal award?
Muskegon Area First's most recent federal grant award is (no IDC) - to establish and maintain an apex accelerator to serve as a resource for business entities, including… (W56KGU262A054), from ACC Aberdeen Proving Ground, on May 16, 2026.
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- Federal grant awards
- Funding analysis by agency, NAICS and set-aside
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