Commercial Utilities Program

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Support Center Huntsville, awarded a Master IDIQ for Commercial Utilities Program utilities management consulting services on September 12, 2018, with a shared ceiling of $9.8 million; ordering closed on March 10, 2024, and the vehicle is no longer active. The vehicle was set aside for total small business under NAICS 541618 at award, though task-order execution reveals a predominantly unrestricted portfolio.

Seventy-three task orders have been issued across the vehicle's lifetime, with ordering activity declining sharply in recent years: 19 orders placed in 2020, 12 in 2021, 9 in 2022, 7 in 2023, and 1 in 2024. The combined potential value of all awarded task orders stands at $5.7 million, representing 100 percent obligated against the $9.8 million shared ceiling.

Task orders focus on utilities rate intervention support services, utility bill audit services, utility service assessments (organized into numbered groups), demand response support, utility procurement optimization, tenant reimbursement technical support and studies, and specialized utility studies such as energy security and resilience assessments and facility heating alternatives assessments. Services are delivered firm fixed price across multiple Army installations nationwide.

Exeter Associates, Inc. and Brubaker & Associates, Inc. dominate the prime contractor base, holding 24 and 23 orders respectively with combined potential values of $2.1 million and $1.7 million. Acme Utility Consultants LLC (9 orders, $1.1 million), Utility Management Services Inc. (13 orders, $421 thousand), and Newgen Strategies And Solutions LLC (4 orders, $354 thousand) account for the remaining awards. The top two primes hold approximately 63 percent of awarded orders and 66 percent of combined potential value.

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville places 72 of 73 orders ($5.5 million combined potential value), with a single order ($144 thousand) going to the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support Center.

Ninety-five percent of task orders carry no set-aside designation; 5 percent are total small business. Task-order values range from a $5.1 thousand specialist support engagement to $257.5 thousand for tenant reimbursement technical support, with typical durations spanning one to four years. Work is performed at Army installations across the continental United States, Alaska, and other domestic military locations.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Engineering and Support Center, Directorate of Installation Support (CEHNC-ISCX) has awarded a Master IDIQ for the Commercial Utilities Program (CUP) Utilities Management Consulting Services contract. The federal Government is the single largest energy consumer in the United States. The CUP was developed with the goal of reducing the federal Government's utility energy costs due to the sheer magnitude of funds spent on energy in support of federal Government operations and the steady escalation of such costs. The CUP provides policy, guidance and field support to the USACE Directorate of Civil Works programs, U.S. Army, other Department of Defense (DoD) organizations, and other federal Government agencies on the acquisition and sales of utilities services.