Office of the Deputy Secretary

The Department of Energy Advanced Office of the Deputy Secretary, a civilian sub-agency within the Department of Energy, executes a limited and dormant contract portfolio focused on administrative and support work at the department level. The office has made 93 federal contract awards cumulatively since 1979, with the most recent award closing on November 17, 2014 — more than eleven years before the current date.

Contract activity peaked in the mid-2000s, when the office awarded 16 contracts in 2006 and 9 each in 2005 and 2007. After 2007, activity dropped sharply: 2 awards in 2008 and a single award in 2014, after which no recorded award activity occurs. The combined award potential value across the full portfolio is $2.3 million, though cumulative obligations reached $8.8 million — indicating that the office's contracts were heavily modified or exercised beyond their initial ceiling values over their performance periods. Across 93 awards, the office engaged 32 distinct prime contractors, reflecting a fragmented competitive base with no single vendor dominating the award count.

The portfolio is almost entirely unrestricted: 92 awards (99 percent) carried no set-aside designation, with only 1 award (1 percent) designated for small business. This distribution suggests the office procured specialized or sole-source capabilities that did not qualify for or were not pursued under small-business set-asides.

The office has issued no federal contract opportunities recorded against it in the recent period covered by this digest, and no contract awards have closed since November 2014. This dormancy indicates that the office either no longer conducts direct contract work, routes its procurement through parent-agency contracting offices, or operates below the reporting threshold. Business development activity at this office is not supportable based on current or recent solicitation activity.