AES Electrical, LLC

AES Electrical, LLC, doing business as Freestate Electrical Co through its Freestate Electric division, is a commercial electrical contractor headquartered in Laurel, Maryland, that serves federal agencies as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards) on full-and-open electrical infrastructure, fire alarm, and power systems work. The vendor operates as a for-profit limited liability partnership with foreign ownership and competes without small business set-asides; over the past several years, Freestate Electrical has maintained a portfolio of federal contracts with combined potential value exceeding $122.6 million.

Customer concentration is acute and heavily concentrated in the National Gallery of Art, which accounts for 17 awards and $119.1 million combined potential value — 97% of the vendor's total federal award pipeline. The gap between award count and dollar concentration reveals the structure of that relationship: the National Gallery of Art awarded a $103.8 million definitive contract for fire alarm upgrade scheduled for completion on January 15, 2028, which dominates the portfolio. Secondary customers by award count include the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (10 awards, $68 thousand combined potential value), the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service National Capital Region (4 awards, $45 thousand), the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office (3 awards, $4 thousand), and the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters (2 awards, $6 thousand). However, by dollar value, the two rankings diverge significantly: the National Library of Medicine (2 awards, $1.2 million) and the United States Marine Corps (2 awards, $366 thousand) carry material potential values despite low award counts, signaling that HHS and DoD opportunities, though infrequent, anchor meaningful task orders outside the National Gallery of Art relationship.

Freestate Electrical holds two primary parent IDIQs at the National Gallery of Art: IDC NGA14IDC1405GC, under which 13 task orders carry $2 million combined potential value, and IDC NGA04056DG08, which supports 2 task orders valued at $232 thousand. A recent indefinite delivery contract awarded October 1, 2025, by the National Gallery of Art carries an $8 million ceiling through September 30, 2030, for electrical services including circuit upgrades, variable frequency drive upgrades, fire alarm system upgrades, and emergency repairs in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Representative prime work includes a $103.8 million fire alarm upgrade definitive contract with NGA (September 2022 award, January 2028 completion), a $294,994.72 delivery order from NGA for variable frequency drive upgrades (May 2023 award, July 2024 completion), and a $14,685 purchase order from Immigration and Customs Enforcement for data network services (January 2026 award, February 2026 completion).

The vendor faces significant recompete exposure: one award worth $103.8 million reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Activity trajectory has been episodic over the past five years — one award in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — reflecting the lumpy nature of NGA's capital project cycle rather than sustained growth. Work is performed primarily in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, with a concentration in the National Gallery of Art's facilities at 9th and Constitution Avenue NW and subsidiary federal office locations including the Department of Justice at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

In its subcontractor role, Freestate Electrical performs electrical installation, switchgear repair, and generator replacement work under primes including DW Solutions, LLC (generator replacement at the Department of Justice, switchgear and transformer repairs and battery replacement work) and Johnson Controls Building Automation Systems, LLC (incremental funding electrical contracting). The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures minimal SCI-reportable invoicing on Freestate Electrical's federal work — $0 across FY2022–FY2024 on prime records — reflecting that the vendor's portfolio consists primarily of purchase orders, delivery orders against IDIQs, and definitive contracts rather than service contracts above the $150,000 SCI threshold. The SCI dataset shows roughly 1.3 FTEs delivered to federal programs in FY2024 on six sub-award records.

The vendor's corporate structure includes a subsidiary, AES Electrical, Inc., through which some federal contract work has been awarded. Freestate Electrical's capability portfolio is narrowly framed by NAICS code — 26 of 59 awards fall under Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors (NAICS 238210), with 15 awards classified under Engineering Services — and by PSC category, where the vendor's work clusters under Support–Professional Engineering/Technical services and maintenance and repair of electrical and electronic equipment components. Geographic and customer concentration on federal facility infrastructure in the National Capital Region, combined with the acute dependence on the National Gallery of Art relationship, defines both the vendor's market position and its recompete risk profile.