Wyoming Association Of Rural Water Systems

Wyoming Association Of Rural Water Systems, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Glenrock, Wyoming, provides training and technical assistance on water quality, wastewater treatment, and financing to rural, tribal, and small public water and wastewater systems as a sub-recipient on federal grants rather than as a prime contractor or federal service-contract vendor.

The organization operates almost entirely as a subcontractor — 92% of its recent federal awards are sub-awards — and holds no prime contract vehicles. Its federal activity concentrates in the Environmental Protection Agency's Office for Water, which funds 9 of its 12 tracked awards; the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service accounts for 2 additional awards. The single prime award in the source dataset carries a nominal $2 thousand potential value and was issued by the EPA's Research Triangle Park Procurement Operations Division. All tracked federal work flows through the National Rural Water Association as prime grantee, with Wyoming Association Of Rural Water Systems performing specialized delivery roles under federal grant programs focused on drinking water and wastewater compliance.

Recent sub-award work (September 2025, August 2025, July 2025) centers on employing specialized staff — Water Quality Action Specialists, a Funding Specialist, a Training Specialist, and a Wastewater Technician — to deliver training and technical assistance across distinct water infrastructure domains. A Water Quality Action Specialist sub-award provides guidance on decentralized wastewater systems; another addresses sustained operations and maintenance of wastewater treatment at publicly owned treatment works, decentralized systems, and municipalities. A Funding Specialist sub-award targets planning, development, and financing acquisition for systems. A Training Specialist sub-award promotes Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) compliance and long-term sustainability capacity for tribal, small, and rural public water systems. A Wastewater Technician sub-award delivers general training and technical assistance to wastewater systems.

The organization's federal activity appears episodic rather than continuous. The source dataset shows activity concentrated in 2023 (four awards) and 2025 (five awards through September), with a gap in 2022 and only two awards in 2024. Service Contract Inventory reporting captures only 2 records across FY2022–FY2024, indicating minimal federal service-contract activity above the $150,000 SCI threshold; FTE staffing on SCI-reportable work ran 2.0 FTEs in FY2022 and declined to 1.6 FTEs in FY2024. Combined dollars obligated across all tracked awards total $974 thousand against a combined potential value of $2 thousand, reflecting a historical obligation rate far exceeding stated potential value — a pattern typical of organizations with long-standing grants where early periods are fully obligated. Wyoming Association Of Rural Water Systems does not compete for prime federal contracts and does not hold seats on government-wide IDIQs, GWACs, or agency-wide BPAs.