Butte Electric Cooperative Inc.

Butte Electric Cooperative Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit cooperative utility provider headquartered in Newell, South Dakota, supplies electric power and utility services to federal agencies as a prime recipient and contractor (99% of recent awards), predominantly through standing utility supply agreements rather than competitive procurements.

Butte Electric's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in electric utility delivery. The cooperative operates under primary PSC Utilities–Electric across 171 awards with combined potential value of $397 thousand and combined obligated dollars of $8 million — a ratio reflecting invoiced utility billings over multiple years rather than one-time procurements. The top customer by award count is the Department of the Air Force, which accounts for 165 awards placed against a single indefinite delivery contract (F3960170D0052) that carries 165 task orders representing ongoing electric service to Air Force installations. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation placed four awards worth $37 thousand combined potential value, including a purchase order to Butte Electric for electric service to the Rocky Point State Park Warehouse Facility in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, with a ceiling of $30,973 and a firm fixed-price term extending through August 23, 2031. The Federal Emergency Management Agency placed two additional awards. A single Air Force Defense Finance and Accounting Service award carries $360 thousand in potential value.

Activity is sparse and flat in recent years — one award annually from 2020 through 2023, with the most recent award dated February 2, 2023. Butte Electric operates almost entirely on the prime side; sub-award work consists of two grant sub-awards to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety for utility repairs and electric line work in Lawrence County, placing the cooperative in a recipient capacity on federal pass-through utility funding from state agencies rather than direct federal grants.