Rend Lake Area Regional Delivery System

Rend Lake Area Regional Delivery System, doing business as Rlards, is a non-profit organization based in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, that operates exclusively as a sub-recipient of federal education grants, with no prime contract or direct federal procurement footprint. Rlards receives all three of its recent federal awards as a sub-grant from the Illinois State Board of Education under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act (Perkins V), CFDA 84.048, to support career and technical education programming in Illinois K-12 schools and community colleges.

Rlards's federal grant footprint is narrow and concentrated. Over the past three years, the vendor has received three sub-grant awards totaling $410 thousand, all from the Department of Education's Office of Career Technical and Adult Education channel through Illinois SBOE as the prime grantee. The awards flow on a roughly annual basis — one in 2024 ($410 thousand combined or distributed across that year), one in 2025, and one in August 2026. Rlards is not positioned as a contract prime, does not sit on federal IDIQs or GWACs, and carries no prime contract vehicle relationships. Its entire federal role is as a sub-recipient delivering CTE support and planning services downstream from the state board's Perkins V planning and compliance obligations.

Because Rlards operates as a pass-through sub-recipient rather than a prime contractor or service provider, it is not a competitive threat in federal procurement and offers no teaming value for contractors competing for federal contracts. Its relevance to federal BD professionals is limited to education-sector grants specialists researching the Perkins V grant ecology and state-level CTE sub-recipient networks. No recompete risk, GWAC seat, or multi-agency customer base appears in the source.

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