Superintendents Office Of The Nevada County

The Nevada County Superintendent of Schools (doing business as Ncsos), a California county government entity based in Grass Valley, operates as a federal grant recipient in the K-12 education space, receiving formula grants directly from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and serving as a sub-recipient on a portfolio of state-administered federal education and nutrition programs. Ncsos does not hold federal contracts or compete on procurement vehicles; its federal footprint is entirely grant-funded, with 48% of recent awards as prime grant recipient and 52% as sub-recipient flowing through the California Department of Education and California Department of Social Services.

Ncsos's customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of Education. The top five federal funding agencies account for 97% of recent awards, with the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education dominating at 41 awards, followed by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at 12 awards. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services round out the active set with minimal volume. As a prime recipient, Ncsos receives Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational Agencies on a rolling annual basis; awards dated July 1, 2022 through July 1, 2026 fund fiscal years 2023 through 2027 with intermediate completion dates June 30 of each subsequent year. As a sub-recipient, Ncsos receives pass-through funding from the California Department of Education for special education, English learner services, Title I school improvement, homeless education, and pandemic response (ESSER), with additional nutrition support routed through the California Department of Social Services for the Child and Adult Care Food Program and child care development block grants. Representative sub-awards include special education and related services grants, COVID-19 pandemic relief funding, teacher quality improvement grants in high-poverty schools, and child nutrition assistance, with the bulk of sub-awards dated in 2023–2026 and concentrated in the first and second quarters of the calendar year.

Activity has grown substantially in recent years, from a single award in 2022 to thirteen awards in both 2025 and 2026, with a total obligated commitment of $14.7 million across sixty-two awards since 2007. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating low recompete pressure in the near term. Ncsos operates exclusively within federal education and child nutrition grant programs and holds no contracting vehicles, IDIQs, GWACs, or schedules.