Federal contractor · HELENA, MT

MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY received $93.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−17% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $906K. Its largest customer was Forest Service ($87.7K). It also received $88.5M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$93.3K
New awards
2
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 171.9KFY2017
  2. 47.5KFY2018
  3. 84.4KFY2019
  4. 42.3KFY2020
  5. 131.1KFY2021
  6. 39.2KFY2022
  7. 100KFY2023
  8. 84.3KFY2024
  9. 112KFY2025
  10. 93.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Forest Service$87.7K94%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Army$5,6406.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$93.3K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Lewis and Clark County, MT$87.7K94%
  2. Lincoln County, MT$5,6406.0%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $93.3K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $93.3K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Forest Service$87.7K
    Department of Agriculture · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. R1 RO MONTANA OPEN BURN PERMIT FEES$87.7K
    Forest Service· Lewis and Clark County, MT· Facilities & utilities· Dec 22, 2025 – Dec 22, 2025· 1284LM26P0004
  2. MPDES PERMIT FEE FOR MONTANA DEQ WASTEWATER PERMITS AT LIBBY DAM.$20.6K
    Department of the Army· Lincoln County, MT· Facilities & utilities· Mar 18, 2025 – May 21, 2026· W912DW25P0015

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY received $88.5M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 62 actions (24 new awards), −50% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 66.468 · Drinking Water State Revolving Fund ($28.7M).

Assistance · FY2026
$88.5M
New awards
24
Actions
62
Since FY2021
$623.4M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 38.3MFY2021
  2. 63.9MFY2022
  3. 135.3MFY2023
  4. 120.5MFY2024
  5. 176.8MFY2025
  6. 88.5MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$88.5M100%
  2. Other assistance-$29.1K0.0%

Top programs

  1. 66.468 · Drinking Water State Revolving Fund$28.7M32%
  2. 66.458 · Clean Water State Revolving Fund$17.7M20%
  3. 66.442 · Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Small and Underserved Communities Emerging Contaminants Grant Program$9.5M11%
  4. 15.252 · Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation (AMLR)$9.1M10%
  5. 66.605 · Performance Partnership Grants$6M6.7%
  6. 15.250 · Regulation of Surface Coal Mining and Surface Effects of Underground Coal Mining$3.1M3.5%
  7. 66.961 · Superfund State and Indian Tribe Combined Cooperative Agreements (Site-Specific and CORE)$2.2M2.5%
  8. 66.460 · Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants$2.1M2.4%

Awarding agencies

  1. Environmental Protection Agency$74.1M84%
  2. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement$12.2M14%
    Department of the Interior
  3. Bureau of Land Management$1.6M1.8%
    Department of the Interior
  4. Department of Energy$506.8K0.6%
  5. Department of the Army$208.2K0.2%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. DESCRIPTION:THIS AGREEMENT PROVIDES A CAPITALIZATION GRANT, FUNDED BY THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT (IIJA) (PL 117-58), FOR…$24.9M
    66.468 · Drinking Water State Revolving Fund· Environmental Protection Agency· Grant· Jul 24, 2026 – Jul 24, 2026· 96894526
  2. DESCRIPTION:THIS AGREEMENT FUNDS A CAPITALIZATION GRANT, FUNDED BY THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT (IIJA) (PL 117-58), FOR THE…$12.1M
    66.458 · Clean Water State Revolving Fund· Environmental Protection Agency· Grant· Jul 14, 2026 – Jul 14, 2026· 96894426
  3. DESCRIPTION:THIS AGREEMENT PROVIDES FUNDING FOR THE OPERATION OF THE MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY'S CONTINUING ENVIRONMENTAL…$11.7M
    66.605 · Performance Partnership Grants· Environmental Protection Agency· Grant· Sep 16, 2024 – Jun 24, 2026· 00I29600
  4. DESCRIPTION:THIS AGREEMENT PROVIDES FUNDING UNDER THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT (IIJA) TO THE STATE OF MONTANA TO IMPLEMENT…$9.5M
    66.442 · Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Small and Underserved Communities Emerging Contaminants Grant Program· Environmental Protection Agency· Grant· Jul 13, 2026 – Jul 13, 2026· 00I66300
  5. DESCRIPTION:THE PURPOSE OF THIS AGREEMENT IS FOR A CAPITALIZATION GRANT, FUNDED BY THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT (IIJA) (PL…$8.7M
    66.458 · Clean Water State Revolving Fund· Environmental Protection Agency· Formula grant· Sep 1, 2022 – May 21, 2026· 96894401
  6. THIS AGREEMENT PROVIDES FUNDING TO THE MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES THAT ARE NOT ASSIGNABLE TO…$8.4M
    66.961 · Superfund State and Indian Tribe Combined Cooperative Agreements (Site-Specific and CORE)· Environmental Protection Agency· Cooperative agreement· Sep 7, 2021 – Jun 25, 2026· 96833810

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $40.4M (30 subawards)

23 sub-recipients

  1. LOCKWOOD WATER SEWER DISTRICT$11.3M28%
    BILLINGS, MT · 2 subawards
  2. CITY OF HARDIN$6M15%
    HARDIN, MT · 2 subawards
  3. CITY OF KALISPELL$5.2M13%
    KALISPELL, MT · 1 subaward
  4. CITY OF WOLF POINT$3.5M8.7%
    WOLF POINT, MT · 1 subaward
  5. RAVALLI COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$3M7.4%
    VICTOR, MT · 1 subaward
  6. CITY OF BOZEMAN$2.5M6.3%
    BOZEMAN, MT · 1 subaward
  7. NORTHERN LIGHTS INC$1.9M4.8%
    SAGLE, ID · 1 subaward
  8. TOWN OF DRUMMOND$1.8M4.5%
    DRUMMOND, MT · 2 subawards
  9. PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF$1M2.6%
    HELENA, MT · 1 subaward
  10. ST OF MT CITY OF POPLAR$1M2.5%
    POPLAR, MT · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $1.1M (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. NATURAL RESOURCES & CONSERVATION, MONTANA DEPT OF$1M91%
    HELENA, MT · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA$100K9.1%
    MISSOULA, MT · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $675K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $44.5M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2023: $26.4M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2024: $37.2M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $63.1M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $40.4M paid out · $1.1M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

69 companies · $212.2M reported

  1. CITY OF KALISPELL$31.2M
    KALISPELL, MT · 6 subawards
  2. CITY OF MISSOULA$30.5M
    MISSOULA, MT · 14 subawards
  3. TOWN OF WEST YELLOWSTONE$29.5M
    WEST YELLOWSTONE, MT · 4 subawards

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $1.1M reported

  1. NATURAL RESOURCES & CONSERVATION, MONTANA DEPT OF$1M
    HELENA, MT · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA$100K
    MISSOULA, MT · 1 subaward

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Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. MADER RANCH LLC$208.1K
    KEUTERVILLE, ID · 69% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Support activities for forestry
  2. DZS CONTRACTING LLC$209.1K+0% in FY2026
    CLEARWATER, ID · 69% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Support activities for forestry
  3. JOHN J RICKER$212.4K+5.8% in FY2026
    ARROYO GRANDE, CA · 69% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Support activities for forestry

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.