Boiler Efficiency Institute, LLC

Boiler Efficiency Institute, LLC (doing business as Energy Projects), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) based in Auburn, Alabama, provides boiler safety device testing, inspection, training, and standard operating procedure development services to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing predominantly under Total Small Business and SDVOSB set-asides through a primary single-award IDIQ vehicle.

Boiler Efficiency Institute is a limited liability partnership structured as a for-profit organization and holds SDVOSB certification. The vendor's concrete capability portfolio centers on commercial boiler operations and compliance: boiler safety device testing under VHA Directive 1810, personnel certification training, site-specific safety procedures, design reviews (60%, 90%, and 100% phase gates), lockout-tagout procedures, emergency operations documentation, and boiler plant program audits. Representative work includes a $518,328 delivery order from the VA Technology Acquisition Center (awarded September 2024) for boiler safety testing and training services across multiple VA medical centers; a $211,266.53 purchase order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 (awarded September 2025) for semi-annual safety device inspections at the Black Hills VA Health Care System in Fort Meade, South Dakota; and a $570,934.96 delivery order from the VA Technology Acquisition Center (awarded November 2023) for boiler safety testing and training across VISN 10 facilities.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of Veterans Affairs accounts for all material work: the VA Technology Acquisition Center Austin and VA Headquarters together represent 54% of awards and 44% of combined potential value ($12.9 million), with Veterans Integrated Service Network 15, Veterans Integrated Service Network 8, and Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 comprising secondary volume. The vendor has served 23 distinct federal agencies nominally, but the portfolio is almost entirely VA medical center and facility work issued through regional Veterans Integrated Service Networks.

Boiler Efficiency Institute holds a single-award IDIQ awarded December 15, 2025 (the most recent award in the source) valued at $2,419,910 under a Total Small Business set-aside with the VA Technology Acquisition Center running through December 14, 2030. This vehicle replaced an earlier $2,989,027 IDIQ (36E77620D0009) that closed in September 2025 and generated 63 task orders valued at $7.6 million. A prior vehicle (36C77626D0023) carried 8 task orders worth $283 thousand. All task orders under these IDIQs are firm fixed price and dispersed across VA medical centers nationwide.

Activity has remained flat to declining. Awards per year ran at 18 to 19 per year in 2022–2024, dropped to 13 in 2025, and have slowed further to 10 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Recompete exposure is minimal: only ten awards (combined potential value $345 thousand) are completing in the next twenty-four months. The newer IDIQ award (December 2025) provides continuity of the vendor's primary vehicle.

SCI-reported invoicing of boiler safety and maintenance services to the federal government totaled $2.2 million across FY2023 and FY2024 (no SCI reporting in FY2022). FY2024 saw $1.3 million invoiced across 1.5 FTEs, down slightly from FY2023's $901 thousand across 1.7 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $228.30/hr to a 90th percentile of $458.72/hr, with a median around $293.73/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor performed zero subcontracted hours, indicating the company builds and delivers its own boiler engineering and inspection workforce with no material sub-reliance.

Boiler Efficiency Institute operates almost entirely as a prime contractor with no meaningful sub footprint. The source lists one sub-award only: a July 2022 consulting support task under the VHA Integrated Healthcare Transformation (IHT) IDIQ, indicating minimal teaming activity. The vendor's business model is direct prime delivery to VA facilities, not feeder work to larger primes. Primary NAICS classification is 238220 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors), with secondary classification in engineering services. The vendor competes exclusively or nearly exclusively under small business set-asides and SDVOSB designations across its prime footprint.

Boiler/HVAC (steam plant & chiller) services, boiler safety testing, apprenticeship training, professional engineers, Ph.D.'s, mechanical engineers