City Of Pocatello

City of Pocatello, doing business as Pocatello-Vision 12, is a municipal government entity headquartered in Pocatello, Idaho, registered in the System for Award Management since July 2003. The city provides a diverse range of goods and services to federal agencies through both contract and grant mechanisms, with a primary focus on airport operations, public transportation infrastructure, environmental remediation, and community development. As the primary city government for the Pocatello and Chubbuck urban area in southeastern Idaho, the municipality manages critical infrastructure and public services that support regional economic development and quality of life initiatives.

Through federal contract awards, City of Pocatello has primarily provided airport landing fee services to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Region under a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) established in February 2020 and extending through February 2025. The city has issued numerous calls against this BPA covering landing fees at Pocatello Regional Airport and related airport facilities in Shoshone, Idaho, with individual contract values ranging from $0.00 to $6,865.92 for monthly and periodic landing fee assessments. These BPA calls were structured as firm fixed price contracts with no set-aside designations, covering various time periods between 2021 and 2025, supporting the BLM's land management and aviation operations across Idaho. Additionally, the city received one contract call from the BLM Nevada Region for Pocatello landing fees in October 2021. No subcontractors were identified in the contract award records, and the city operated as the prime contractor for all landing fee contracts awarded.

City of Pocatello has been significantly more active in the federal grant landscape, receiving numerous prime grant awards totaling millions of dollars across multiple federal agencies and programs. The city has received substantial Federal Transit Administration formula grants under CFDA 20.507 for operating assistance, preventive maintenance, and paratransit services supporting fixed-route and non-fixed-route ADA transportation in the Pocatello and Chubbuck urban area, with recent awards including $2,294,418 (December 2025) and $2,356,918 (July 2025) for continued transit operations. The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded multiple project grants under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) totaling over $7 million for airport infrastructure improvements, including runway and taxiway rehabilitation, apron reconstruction and pavement sealing, taxilane construction, terminal parking lot rehabilitation, and snow removal equipment acquisition. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a substantial $4,836,555 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CFDA 10.720) for a five-year wildfire risk reduction project involving hazardous fuel removal, strategic contracting, staff training, and community outreach. The city received a $2,159,277.49 Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART grant (CFDA 15.507) for Portneuf River restoration, along with additional water-related project grants including $522,500 for design of the Portneuf River Oxbow Restoration Project and $300,000 through the Cooperative Watershed Management Program. The Environmental Protection Agency awarded $498,750 under the Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.815) to train unemployed and underemployed residents in environmental remediation careers with EPA-certified certifications, and provided additional funding for septic municipal connection projects and groundwater and air quality improvements under the Inflation Reduction Act. The city received Community Development Block Grant formula funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (CFDA 14.218) for community development activities and has been awarded Federal Transit Administration formula grants for ADA-accessible sidewalk and curb ramp improvements totaling over $700,000. The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration provided $225,900 through the Safe Streets and Roads for All program (CFDA 20.549) for roadway safety improvements and a grant for the North Portneuf Crossing Project under the Rebuilding American Infrastructure and Equity Program. Additional project grants include a $107,603.78 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (CFDA 97.044) from FEMA and a $120,719 AFG award for firefighter equipment and training. Federal grant awards also included a Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant, an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant from the Department of Energy for energy efficiency initiatives, and American Rescue Plan Act airport economic relief funding totaling $1.2 million for COVID-19 pandemic response. Federal grant sub-awards were received from the Idaho Department of Lands for wildfire mitigation projects, the State of Idaho Department of Environmental Quality for sewer and stormwater studies, and the Idaho Department of Transportation for transit infrastructure improvements and bus replacement funding.