Black Hills Service Company, LLC

Black Hills Service Company, LLC, operating as Black Hills Energy, provides regulated electric and natural gas utility services to federal agencies nationwide as a prime contractor across 60 firm fixed-price delivery orders carrying combined potential value of $185.3 million. The company is a for-profit limited liability company and subsidiary of Black Hills Corporation, headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota, competing in full-and-open federal procurement without set-aside designation.

The vendor's federal footprint centers on utility services delivery — electric power distribution, natural gas supply, and ancillary utility infrastructure work. Recent representative work includes a $90.9 million Utility Energy Savings Contract (UESC) with the VA Technology Acquisition Center for VISN 23 Black Hills running through February 2045, a $50 million energy services delivery order from GSA Public Buildings Service Central Office (ultimate completion date not specified in source), an $18.7 million electricity delivery order from the Department of Energy Office of Science at Lead, South Dakota through December 2035, a $2.79 million natural gas contract with the Bureau of Indian Education at Lawrence, Kansas through September 2034, and recurring monthly electric and natural gas delivery orders from the Federal Correctional Complex Florence ranging from $150 thousand to $224 thousand per order.

Customer concentration is extreme and driven by two anchoring awards. The VA Technology Acquisition Center and GSA Public Buildings Service together account for approximately $140.9 million of the combined potential value — roughly 76% of the entire portfolio — despite representing only 2 of 60 awards. By volume, the Federal Correctional Complex Florence dominates with 43 awards (72% of all awards) carrying $18.9 million combined potential value, but these are small monthly utility bills. The top five customer agencies by potential-value ranking span the Department of Veterans Affairs, General Services Administration, Department of Justice, Department of Energy, and Department of the Interior, accounting for 98% of combined potential value across 52 awards.

Black Hills Energy sits on a single parent contract vehicle: Indefinite Delivery Contract 47PA0419D0014, which carries 58 task orders valued at $135.3 million in combined potential value. This vehicle anchors the vast majority of the vendor's federal work and represents the institutional base for recurring utility service delivery across multiple federal agencies.

The activity profile shows growth trajectory through 2025 — two awards in 2022, five in 2023, eight in 2024, and twelve in 2025 — with seven awards year-to-date through July 2026. Only one award (combined potential value $200 thousand) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. Combined dollars obligated across the entire portfolio stand at $67.8 million, representing 37% of combined potential value, reflecting the long-term multi-decade nature of major UESC and energy services agreements alongside monthly utility billing cycles on smaller orders.

The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards); no subcontract relationships appear in the source. All federal awards are structured as firm fixed-price delivery orders, reflecting the cost-predictable nature of regulated utility service provision. The company serves thirteen distinct federal agencies across electric power distribution (60 awards across all utilities work), electric utilities (32 awards), other utilities (20 awards), and natural gas (8 awards) NAICS and PSC categories.