City Of Saint Paul

City Of Saint Paul, a U.S. local government entity located on St. Paul Island, Alaska, operates as a federal grant recipient (80% of recent awards) and holds two small federal contracts for caretaking services at U.S. Coast Guard facilities. The city has no SBA designations, competes full-and-open, and serves as both a prime recipient on federal infrastructure and community development grants and a sub-recipient on smaller federal environmental and emergency-management grants routed through state and nonprofit intermediaries.

The city's federal footprint centers on infrastructure development and facility management. As a prime recipient, City Of Saint Paul has secured major grants including a $11.73 million Denali Commission Project Grant (CFDA 90.100) for city south dock renovations and new berthing dolphins (completion December 31, 2028), a $4.31 million Maritime Administration Project Grant (CFDA 20.933) for Saint Paul Harbor improvements including harbor road design, dock and pier design, and preconstruction activities (completion July 31, 2030), a $3.126 million Denali Commission Project Grant for the Saint Paul Airport Feeder Replacement Project (completion December 31, 2028), and a $2.838 million Economic Development Administration Project Grant (CFDA 54.002) for extension and upgrade of water, sewer, and electric utility infrastructure in the Small Boat Harbor area (completion May 31, 2027). Earlier work includes a June 2025 EPA Region 10 Project Grant for drinking water system resilience and natural hazard mitigation (completion May 31, 2029), an October 2023 EPA Region 10 Cooperative Agreement for AALAX landfill development including landfill cells, equipment building, and solid waste management planning (completion September 30, 2027), and two Federal Highway Administration Project Grants for transportation safety planning on Saint Paul and Saint George Islands (August 2023 and March 2026, the latter worth $158 thousand). On the contract side, City Of Saint Paul holds two U.S. Coast Guard firm fixed-price purchase orders for caretaking services at USCG facilities: a $66,371 order (award August 2022, completion August 2023) and a $54,992 order (award July 2021, completion July 2022).

Customer concentration is split between transportation and maritime agencies on the grant side and Coast Guard on the contract side. The top five funding entities by award count account for 50% of recent awards, with the Department of Commerce NOAA and the Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard leading (9 and 6 awards respectively), followed by EPA Region 10, the Economic Development Administration, and the Denali Commission. By combined potential value, Coast Guard contracts and NOAA grants together represent the majority of the measured footprint, though this metric is heavily depressed by the fact that obligated dollars ($38.8 million) vastly exceed combined potential value ($406 thousand), indicating the source's "combined potential value" field is incomplete or driven by contract ceilings rather than grant award amounts. The city's recent activity has remained steady at 4–5 awards per year over 2023–2026.

Three awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and are therefore exposed to recompete. In its sub-recipient role, City Of Saint Paul receives smaller grants and sub-awards routed through prime grantees including the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (flood mitigation infrastructure design near the Salt Lagoon), Philanthropy Northwest (environmental justice and community resilience under EPA Thriving Communities), The Reinvestment Fund (healthy food access planning), the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (disaster recovery and homeland security), and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (drinking water infrastructure). The city's capability portfolio reflects its role as a remote island municipality: facility caretaking and fuel services for federal installations, community-scale infrastructure planning and construction (harbors, airports, utilities, landfills, roads), drinking water system modernization, and emergency preparedness and disaster recovery support.