Nevada Rural Water Association

Nevada Rural Water Association, a Nevada-based tax-exempt non-profit organization, operates as a sub-recipient on federal grants supporting wastewater treatment training and technical assistance, with no prime contract or grant awards and a five-award footprint spanning sixteen years. The organization does not serve as a federal contractor; rather, it delivers specialized services under federal grants issued to and administered by the National Rural Water Association as the prime recipient.

Nevada Rural Water Association's recent grant activity centers on Water Quality Action Specialist (WQAS) employment and training delivery. In September 2023, the organization received three sub-awards from the National Rural Water Association across the Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water: one sub-award to deploy a WQAS providing training and technical assistance to tribally-owned and -operated wastewater systems, a second to support publicly-owned treatment works, decentralized systems, and municipalities in sustained operations and maintenance of wastewater treatment, and a third to serve decentralized wastewater systems. The combined dollar obligation across all five awards in the source dataset totals $226 thousand, with activity concentrated in 2023 following a gap spanning 2010–2022.

Customer concentration is split between two federal agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water accounts for 3 of 5 awards (100% of recent sub-award activity as of the source snapshot), while the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service holds 2 awards from earlier in the organization's history. The vendor does not hold a seat on any parent vehicles, GWACs, IDIQs, or agency-wide BPAs; all activity is grant-based and routed through the National Rural Water Association as the contracting or administrative prime.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures minimal activity: two records across FY2022–FY2024, with roughly 1.5 to 1.7 FTEs deployed as a named subcontractor on federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold. This SCI-reported workforce is a partial and subset view of the organization's federal and enterprise activity and does not reflect the full scope of grant-funded employment or technical services delivery. No SCI records show Nevada Rural Water Association serving as a prime contractor; the organization operates as a sub-recipient and named subcontractor on federal service work, not as a prime.

Nevada Rural Water Association does not compete for federal contracts or maintain a contracting footprint. Its federal relationship is exclusively grant-based sub-recipient activity under the National Rural Water Association as the prime grantor-designated recipient, focused on wastewater quality training and workforce development in rural and tribal communities.