Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership Direct Funding Opportunity
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- RFX-2026-10006
- Agency
-
Office of Science
Department of Energy
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541690 Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- PSC
- B599 Special Studies/Analysis- Other
- Place of performance
- Arvada, Colorado 80007, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Energy Office of Science, on behalf of the Office of Electricity, seeks proposals for the Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership Direct Funding Opportunity with proposals due July 10, 2026 (extended from July 2 by Amendment No. 02 on June 17). Up to eight awards are anticipated totaling $2.5 million in program funding.
Eligible prime offerors for Topic Areas 1–4 are non-profit entities, energy cooperatives, state and local governmental entities, and federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes and villages. Topic Area 5 is limited to U.S. companies located within the United States. All projects must serve remote or rural areas (population under 10,000) in Alaska, Hawaii, or the contiguous United States; U.S. Territories are ineligible. Projects must provide energy services to areas where residential electricity prices are 26.17 cents per kWh (150% of national average as of January 2026) or 125% of state average cost, or provide justification of high electricity costs based on economic damages from downtime.
Five topic areas span 12 to 24 months of performance with maximum award amounts ranging from $200,000 to $575,000. Topic Area 5 requires minimum 20% cost share from the offeror. The procurement uses a best value selection model weighted 90% qualitative merit criteria and 10% evaluated price for programmatic factors. Place of performance is Arvada, Colorado. The NAICS code is 541690, Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services. Technical proposals must not exceed 15 pages and are submitted electronically to Kyndall Jackson, Subcontract Administrator, at Kyndall.Jackson@nlr.gov. Subcontracting will be firm fixed price based on deliverable-based performance periods of 12 to 24 months with quarterly reporting and monthly conference calls required.
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3 versions
Update #3 · Latest ·
6/17/26 Amendment No. 02 extending proposal due date to 7/10.
6/8/26 Amendment No. 01 posted to update RFP and answer questions.
See Request for Proposal RFX-2026-10006-CMAP and Attachments 1-6, for full description.
Program Overview
The Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) is an effort through the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) to expand American’s access to affordable energy, strengthen grid reliability, and bolster national security. The program supports the implementation of innovative OE-funded research to improve energy delivery to Americans living and working in rural and remote areas that have less reliable energy systems and some of the highest energy costs in the nation. Through this effort, DOE-OE provides direct funding, access to technical experts, and educational resources to energy providers and partners to build, operate, and enhance microgrid systems that improve the affordability, reliability, and security of electricity in rural and remote areas of the U.S.
The 2026 C-MAP solicitation aims to support rural and remote communities to:
• Develop and implement multi-community support efforts to better support or develop advanced microgrid energy systems
• Develop detailed engineering designs and financial assessments in support of developing advanced microgrid systems
• Expand collaboration between energy providers and large load energy users, with a goal to expand industrial development in rural areas
• Assess and improve the operation of existing microgrid energy systems.
This call for proposals will support energy providers, local governments and U.S. industry in remote areas to improve the operational efficiency of existing or development of new microgrid energy systems. This solicitation uses the U.S. Department of Energy definition of a microgrid: “a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources within clearly defined electrical boundaries that acts as a single controllable entity.”
This solicitation targets existing or proposed microgrids which experience challenges with cost, reliability, resilience, and/or power quality. The microgrids may be electrically islanded (not connected to an external electricity infrastructure) or, if connected to external electrical infrastructure, such as electric transmission or distribution feeders, must at times operate independently of that external energy system.
The 2026 Community Microgrid Development Partnership Awards consist of five (5) topic areas:
1. Regional Microgrid Coordination
To help energy service providers from multiple communities collaborate to improve the operations of, or development opportunities for, separate microgrid power systems for their independent communities.
2. Microgrid Integration with Large Load Energy Consumers
To support collaboration between utilities operating community microgrids and adjacent large load energy consumers which operate, or plan to operate, independent power systems.
3. Microgrid Development
To assist individual communities with completing detailed design efforts for a new, or major retrofit of an existing, microgrid power system.
4. Microgrid Transformation
To equip individual communities to assess, design, and implement innovative microgrid improvements to operational microgrid systems.
5. Microgrid Assessment for Industrial or other Large Load Energy Consumers
To assist individual large energy consumers to develop or advance microgrid systems, expanding energy availability while lowering costs.
Update #2 ·
6/8/26 Amendment No. 01 posted to update RFP and answer questions.
See Request for Proposal RFX-2026-10006-CMAP and Attachments 1-6, for full description.
Program Overview
The Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) is an effort through the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) to expand American’s access to affordable energy, strengthen grid reliability, and bolster national security. The program supports the implementation of innovative OE-funded research to improve energy delivery to Americans living and working in rural and remote areas that have less reliable energy systems and some of the highest energy costs in the nation. Through this effort, DOE-OE provides direct funding, access to technical experts, and educational resources to energy providers and partners to build, operate, and enhance microgrid systems that improve the affordability, reliability, and security of electricity in rural and remote areas of the U.S.
The 2026 C-MAP solicitation aims to support rural and remote communities to:
• Develop and implement multi-community support efforts to better support or develop advanced microgrid energy systems
• Develop detailed engineering designs and financial assessments in support of developing advanced microgrid systems
• Expand collaboration between energy providers and large load energy users, with a goal to expand industrial development in rural areas
• Assess and improve the operation of existing microgrid energy systems.
This call for proposals will support energy providers, local governments and U.S. industry in remote areas to improve the operational efficiency of existing or development of new microgrid energy systems. This solicitation uses the U.S. Department of Energy definition of a microgrid: “a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources within clearly defined electrical boundaries that acts as a single controllable entity.”
This solicitation targets existing or proposed microgrids which experience challenges with cost, reliability, resilience, and/or power quality. The microgrids may be electrically islanded (not connected to an external electricity infrastructure) or, if connected to external electrical infrastructure, such as electric transmission or distribution feeders, must at times operate independently of that external energy system.
The 2026 Community Microgrid Development Partnership Awards consist of five (5) topic areas:
1. Regional Microgrid Coordination
To help energy service providers from multiple communities collaborate to improve the operations of, or development opportunities for, separate microgrid power systems for their independent communities.
2. Microgrid Integration with Large Load Energy Consumers
To support collaboration between utilities operating community microgrids and adjacent large load energy consumers which operate, or plan to operate, independent power systems.
3. Microgrid Development
To assist individual communities with completing detailed design efforts for a new, or major retrofit of an existing, microgrid power system.
4. Microgrid Transformation
To equip individual communities to assess, design, and implement innovative microgrid improvements to operational microgrid systems.
5. Microgrid Assessment for Industrial or other Large Load Energy Consumers
To assist individual large energy consumers to develop or advance microgrid systems, expanding energy availability while lowering costs.
Update #1 ·
See Request for Proposal RFX-2026-10006-CMAP and Attachments 1-6, for full description.
Program Overview
The Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) is an effort through the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) to expand American’s access to affordable energy, strengthen grid reliability, and bolster national security. The program supports the implementation of innovative OE-funded research to improve energy delivery to Americans living and working in rural and remote areas that have less reliable energy systems and some of the highest energy costs in the nation. Through this effort, DOE-OE provides direct funding, access to technical experts, and educational resources to energy providers and partners to build, operate, and enhance microgrid systems that improve the affordability, reliability, and security of electricity in rural and remote areas of the U.S.
The 2026 C-MAP solicitation aims to support rural and remote communities to:
• Develop and implement multi-community support efforts to better support or develop advanced microgrid energy systems
• Develop detailed engineering designs and financial assessments in support of developing advanced microgrid systems
• Expand collaboration between energy providers and large load energy users, with a goal to expand industrial development in rural areas
• Assess and improve the operation of existing microgrid energy systems.
This call for proposals will support energy providers, local governments and U.S. industry in remote areas to improve the operational efficiency of existing or development of new microgrid energy systems. This solicitation uses the U.S. Department of Energy definition of a microgrid: “a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources within clearly defined electrical boundaries that acts as a single controllable entity.”
This solicitation targets existing or proposed microgrids which experience challenges with cost, reliability, resilience, and/or power quality. The microgrids may be electrically islanded (not connected to an external electricity infrastructure) or, if connected to external electrical infrastructure, such as electric transmission or distribution feeders, must at times operate independently of that external energy system.
The 2026 Community Microgrid Development Partnership Awards consist of five (5) topic areas:
1. Regional Microgrid Coordination
To help energy service providers from multiple communities collaborate to improve the operations of, or development opportunities for, separate microgrid power systems for their independent communities.
2. Microgrid Integration with Large Load Energy Consumers
To support collaboration between utilities operating community microgrids and adjacent large load energy consumers which operate, or plan to operate, independent power systems.
3. Microgrid Development
To assist individual communities with completing detailed design efforts for a new, or major retrofit of an existing, microgrid power system.
4. Microgrid Transformation
To equip individual communities to assess, design, and implement innovative microgrid improvements to operational microgrid systems.
5. Microgrid Assessment for Industrial or other Large Load Energy Consumers
To assist individual large energy consumers to develop or advance microgrid systems, expanding energy availability while lowering costs.
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