Blanket Purchase Agreement GS00F162CA-89243423AEE000009

Rack-Wildner & Reese, Inc., operating as the Akoya Division, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business, was awarded a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement valued at $100 million by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on August 14, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of August 13, 2028. The BPA, which does not utilize a small business set-aside designation, provides strategic engagement and outreach support services across multiple EERE technology offices and program areas, including the Solar Energy Technologies Office, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, Geothermal Technologies Office, Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office, Building Technologies Office, Water Power Technologies Office, and the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. The contract deliverables encompass comprehensive communications planning, multimedia content production, stakeholder engagement, peer review support, and public outreach activities designed to support EERE's clean energy technology development and deployment objectives.

Under this master BPA, Akoya has received multiple task orders structured as time-and-materials contracts with individual ceiling values ranging from approximately $118,714 to $6.56 million, the majority of which are designated as Total Small Business set-asides. Task orders have been issued for specific technology offices and program initiatives, with performance locations primarily in Carson, Pennsylvania; Golden, Colorado; and Washington, DC. The contractor has established subcontracting relationships with major firms including Deloitte Consulting LLP and ICF Consulting Group, Inc. to expand service capacity and technical expertise. As of the provided documentation, Akoya maintains active and recently completed task orders under this BPA vehicle, demonstrating sustained engagement with EERE while maintaining a parallel $85 million BPA with the Health Resources and Services Administration for marketing campaign services, collectively providing the contractor with $185 million in indefinite delivery vehicles through March 2029.