Southeastern Power Administration

The Department of Energy Southeastern Power Administration (SEPA) is a civilian sub-agency within the Department of Energy that procures equipment, materials, and services to operate and maintain the hydroelectric generation and transmission infrastructure serving the southeastern United States. SEPA administers federal contract awards to support system reliability, substation maintenance, switchgear replacement, and related power-system operations across its service territory.

SEPA has issued 2,125 federal contract awards cumulatively since 2002, with combined potential value of $429 million and $338.5 million obligated to date. Recent contract activity has remained steady: 60 awards in 2022, 80 in 2023, 65 in 2024, 64 in 2025, and 52 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent award closed on October 4, 2026. Across the portfolio, 738 distinct prime contractors have been awarded, indicating a fragmented competitive market with no dominant force. Over the last five years, Thundercat Technology, LLC leads by award count with 14 recent awards (combined potential value of $1.7 million), followed by Countertrade Products, Inc. with 12 awards ($1.2 million potential value) and Carahsoft Technology Corp with 11 awards ($486 thousand potential value). By combined potential value, Dynamic Systems Inc. ranks first at $2.7 million across 5 awards, but the top five contractors by value account for only 2 percent of the combined potential value awarded in the last five years—reflecting a highly fragmented competitive landscape where small, specialized contracts dominate the portfolio.

SEPA's award mix is heavily weighted toward unrestricted competition: 61 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small-business set-asides (8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, SDVOSB, and emerging small business combined) account for 34 percent of awards, with 8(a) sole-source awards comprising 4 percent and service-disabled veteran-owned small business at 1 percent. The remaining set-asides (woman-owned, economically disadvantaged woman-owned, and competitive 8(a)) together represent less than 1 percent of volume.

Open competition remains active. A solicitation for replacement of six full-duplex switchboard sections at SEPA's New Madrid Substation (Solicitation 89503626QSW000213) was posted on September 4, 2026 with a due date of October 5, 2026 and carried no set-aside restriction. This representative recent opportunity reflects SEPA's ongoing maintenance and equipment-replacement cycle across its regional transmission and generation assets.

The Southeastern Power Administration markets hydroelectric power generated by federal reservoirs to public entities in the southeastern United States.