I hope all is well with you. I wanted to check in with you today to let you know about some resources available to Montana cities, towns, counties, and utilities from the Montana Department of Commerce (DOC). The DOC has a contract with multiple A/E firms (including ourselves at Allied Engineering Services, Inc.) to provide up to 20 hours of technical assistance to help with ARPA grant applications for the 2nd round.
Cody Ferguson from DOC (manager in charge of ARPA Tech Assistance contracts) called me Wednesday and requested that we pass the word to our contacts in ARPA eligible cities/towns/utilities to let them know of the availability of support through the ARPA Tech Assistance contract. Apparently, they have not had many entities ask for assistance so there are considerable funds still available. Further, he said if the entities were working with us (at Allied) currently or had previously worked with us, they could ask that we be assigned to help them under the ARPA Tech assistance contract. I believe in the distant past we have worked for the Town of Sheridan so I thought I would pass on the information to you.
So, if you are interested in some “free” help and to get to know Allied Engineering again at the same time, you can contact Cody directly at: cody.ferguson@mt.gov to ask for grant application support and tech assistance.
Also, please let me know if you might have any interest in this idea 406-582-0221.
Chris Brown – Principal Water Resources, Allied Engineering Services, Inc. Bozeman, MT
Town of Sheridan | Montana 
Good morning Mr. Gilman,
I hope all is well with you. I wanted to check in with you today to let you know about some resources available to Montana cities, towns, counties, and utilities from the Montana Department of Commerce (DOC). The DOC has a contract with multiple A/E firms (including ourselves at Allied Engineering Services, Inc.) to provide up to 20 hours of technical assistance to help with ARPA grant applications for the 2nd round.
Cody Ferguson from DOC (manager in charge of ARPA Tech Assistance contracts) called me Wednesday and requested that we pass the word to our contacts in ARPA eligible cities/towns/utilities to let them know of the availability of support through the ARPA Tech Assistance contract. Apparently, they have not had many entities ask for assistance so there are considerable funds still available. Further, he said if the entities were working with us (at Allied) currently or had previously worked with us, they could ask that we be assigned to help them under the ARPA Tech assistance contract. I believe in the distant past we have worked for the Town of Sheridan so I thought I would pass on the information to you.
So, if you are interested in some “free” help and to get to know Allied Engineering again at the same time, you can contact Cody directly at: cody.ferguson@mt.gov to ask for grant application support and tech assistance.
Also, please let me know if you might have any interest in this idea 406-582-0221.
Chris Brown – Principal Water Resources, Allied Engineering Services, Inc. Bozeman, MT
Good Morning Chris,
Thank you for reaching out to us. I will be sure to forward your email to Duke, PW and the Mayor, Bob Stump.
Have a great day! Ginger