Brown Electric, Inc.

Brown Electric, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Goreville, Illinois, performs electrical installation, repair, and upgrade work for federal agencies as a prime contractor on firm fixed-price and purchase-order contracts, with minimal subcontractor activity. The company is a Subchapter S corporation operating under NAICS 238210 (Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors), competing predominantly in the total small-business set-aside category across small-dollar contracts ranging from roughly $9,000 to $75,000.

Brown Electric's customer base concentrates at the Bureau of Prisons' United States Penitentiary Marion in Marion, Illinois, which accounts for five awards totaling $241,000 in combined potential value and represents the dominant customer across both award-count and dollar rankings. The Army Corps of Engineers' Louisville District ranks second by potential value at $209,000 across two awards. The Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of the Interior (Fish and Wildlife Service and US Geological Survey), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service comprise the remaining active customer set. These five customer entities account for 94% of combined potential value across the vendor's recent award footprint.

Recent work includes a $74.8 thousand firm fixed-price contract awarded in March 2026 by the Bureau of Prisons to replace High Mast Light #4 at Federal Correctional Institution Marion, with completion scheduled for May 2026; a $16,446 inmate television upgrade purchase order for the same facility completed in April 2022; a $9,963 gate controller installation at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge for the Fish and Wildlife Service completed in December 2021; and a $209 thousand combined value of two repair and upgrade contracts for the Army Corps of Engineers. Brown Electric demonstrates established capability in high-mast lighting replacement, television system upgrades, gate controller installations, transfer switch replacement, and electrical infrastructure repair across correctional, wildlife, and water-management facilities.

The vendor sits on two indefinite-delivery contracts (70T04021D7672N003 and DACW2787C0088), each with one task order. Activity is episodic — one award in 2020, one in 2021, one in 2022, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — reflecting project-based business with federal real-property customers. The combined potential value across all awards totals $612,000, though obligated amounts have run to $738,000 (121% of potential value), indicating contract modifications above initial ceiling estimates. Brown Electric subcontracts minimally; the source records only one sub-award, a March 2025 task order under Leidos for checkpoint deployment support services. Service Contract Inventory data, which covers federal services above the $150,000 reporting threshold, shows minimal capture: 0.5 FTEs in FY2024 across three named subcontractor records, indicating Brown Electric delivers most of its work as a prime on contracts below the SCI reporting floor.