Rural Community Assistance Corporation

Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), a West Sacramento, California-based nonprofit community development corporation, delivers technical assistance, training, and capacity-building services to rural and tribal communities as a prime contractor and grant recipient, with no SBA set-aside posture and no federal contract sub-awards carrying set-aside designations. RCAC holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract and competes in full-and-open federal procurements centered on water and wastewater infrastructure, affordable housing, and community development financing.

RCAC's federal footprint spans 259 total awards (prime and sub) across contracts and grants worth $86.4 million in combined potential value and $228.8 million in obligated dollars. Prime awards account for 83% of the portfolio, with grant awards and contract delivery orders predominating. The organization's capability portfolio centers on three concrete capability streams: water and wastewater technical assistance and operator training (accounting for the largest share of work); housing counseling and affordable housing capacity building; and community development financial services. Representative contract work includes a $14.5 million USDA Rural Development definitive contract (awarded September 2023, ultimate completion March 2028) to provide technical and management assistance to grantee organizations under the Section 523 Mutual Self-Help Housing Program across four U.S. regions; a $7.9 million EPA Region 9 delivery order (awarded September 2022, completion November 2026) for tribal digital infrastructure circuit rider services on a labor-hours basis, performed from San Francisco; and a $1.3 million single-award IHS blanket purchase agreement (awarded November 2025, completion February 2027) for operations and maintenance training for tribal utility operators and IHS staff, with required deliverables of off-the-shelf and custom training curricula, 15-20 face-to-face sessions annually, and instructor staff possessing minimum five years each of operations and training experience.

RCAC's grant portfolio is substantial and diverse. The organization holds 2.76 million dollar award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Community Services Block Grant Discretionary Awards program (CFDA 93.570) awarded September 2025 through September 2030 to deliver rural community development training and technical assistance across 11 western states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington), with commitment to provide technical assistance to at least 70 communities annually and deliver 10 workshops per year focused on water and wastewater operator certification, managerial training, on-site system safety assessments, and regionalization facilitation. RCAC also holds grants under HUD's Housing Counseling Assistance and Training programs (October 2024 awards through September 2026), the HUD Rural Capacity Building program (April 2025 award, ultimate completion April 2029, $2.325 million), the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (multiple awards including September 2024 and February 2023 financial assistance grants), USDA Rural Utilities Service (multiple awards for water and wastewater training, community facilities technical assistance, and grant-making capacity), and EPA Cooperative Agreements for environmental finance centers in Regions 9 and 10 (January 2023 awards through December 2027, with subrecipient Moonshot Missions providing community needs assessment and planning support in Region 9).

Customer concentration sits with rural development agencies and environmental infrastructure funders. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 54% of all awards: USDA Rural Utilities Service (43 awards), HUD Assistant Secretary for Housing Federal Housing Commissioner (30 awards), EPA Office for Water (26 awards), Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (22 awards), and HUD Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (20 awards). By combined potential value, the top five are led by USDA Rural Housing Service Single Family Housing Program ($28.8 million across two awards), EPA Region 9 ($15.1 million across eight awards), and USDA Rural Housing Service Washington Office ($14.6 million across two awards) — representing 72% of combined potential value across just five customer entities. This concentration reflects RCAC's strategic position as a technical assistance provider to rural infrastructure and housing finance programs.

RCAC places work under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 27 task orders (combined potential value $11.6 million). The vendor's GSA labor portfolio spans seven active categories at hourly rates ranging from $66.70 (Administrative Specialist, Associate's degree, 2 years experience) through $154.66 (Program Manager, Bachelor's degree, 5 years experience), with mid-spectrum roles including Environmental Associate ($87.46/hr), Junior Environmental Specialist ($112.88/hr), and Senior Environmental Specialist ($133.38/hr). No security-cleared roles are offered.

Activity has grown over the past five years: 14 awards in 2022 to 34 in 2023, then contracted to 20 in 2024 and 13 in 2025. Twelve awards (combined potential value $22.4 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing for prime service contracts captured above the $150,000 threshold totaled $9.7 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $2.7 million, FY2023: $4.1 million, FY2024: $2.9 million), with a declining FTE footprint on SCI-reportable contracts (11.2 FTEs in FY2022 to 7.3 FTEs in FY2024). Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $132.31/hr to a 90th percentile of $221.05/hr, with a median of $190.98/hr. RCAC subcontracts from other primes (identified sub-awards include environmental consulting roles under larger federal infrastructure and water management contracts), but SCI data shows zero sub-hours share on its prime contracts, indicating RCAC builds its own delivery teams and does not rely on subcontractor labor for SCI-reportable work. The organization operates through a named subsidiary, Rcac Rooted Equity Fund LLC, a nonprofit limited liability company focused on community development financing.