Energy Systems Group, LLC

Energy Systems Group, LLC, doing business as Energy System Group LLC and Vesco – Energy Systems Group, is a for-profit limited liability company subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. that delivers HVAC preventive maintenance, energy efficiency, infrastructure modernization, and energy savings performance contracting services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards). The vendor competes full-and-open across all customer relationships with no set-aside designations.

The company's federal footprint spans 196 prime awards with combined potential value of $78.48 billion, though only $639 million (1% of potential value) has been obligated, reflecting the heavily future-focused nature of long-term energy performance contracts. Energy Systems Group's capability portfolio centers on HVAC preventive maintenance, system replacements, facility-wide mechanical infrastructure support, building envelope and energy conservation measures, renewable energy installations, energy audits, and performance-based facility modernization. Concrete representative work includes an $84.1 million Energy Savings Performance Contract award for Defense Energy Resilience and Sustainability Assessment (DERA) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, running through August 2045 under the ESPC III vehicle; a $26.68 million single-award HVAC Preventive Maintenance Program IDIQ with the U.S. Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region (awarded December 2023, extending through December 2028); a $7.93 million task order for DERA implementation at Fort Liberty, North Carolina under ESPC III; and a $10.48 million energy conservation measure implementation delivery order across ten federal facilities in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texarkana issued by GSA in September 2022 under the Multiple Award Schedule.

Customer concentration is extreme and tilted toward facilities engineering and energy management. The top five customers by award count account for 75% of all awards: the Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region dominates with 108 awards and $287.7 million combined potential value (primarily small-to-mid-sized HVAC maintenance and above-baseline repair delivery orders at Fort Dix/Wharton, New Jersey); the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 holds 23 awards and $22.3 million; the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville carries 9 awards representing $12.1 billion in combined potential value (anchored by ESPC III and ESPC IV contracts); the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy holds 4 awards worth $5 billion (the Federal Energy Management Program ESPC Generation 4 contract and related task orders); and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region contributes 3 awards of $3 million. By potential value, concentration shifts sharply: the Department of Energy anchors $60 billion across three awards (primarily the FEMP ESPC Gen 4 multi-billion-dollar IDIQ and related ESPCs), dwarfing all other customers, while Army IMCOM Northeast Region and the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command round out the top five.

Energy Systems Group holds position on five major parent vehicles. The $3 billion ESPC IV contract awarded by the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville (June 2025, extending through December 2035) is the largest by ceiling value; the $5 billion Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program ESPC Generation 4 contract (August 2023, extending through August 2028) enables task orders across all federal agencies; the $26.68 million Army IMCOM Northeast Region HVAC Preventive Maintenance Program single-award IDIQ (December 2023) anchors the bulk of near-term execution; legacy indefinite delivery contracts W15QKN08D0457 (69 task orders, $41.6 million combined potential value) and W15QKN20D5000 (24 task orders, $29.2 million) continue to generate work but have aged substantially; and a $14.375 million GSA Blanket Purchase Agreement for electric vehicle supply equipment and ancillary services (April 2022, extending through April 2027) signals recent diversification beyond traditional HVAC and energy performance work.

Activity trajectory shows decline in near-term award volume: twelve awards in 2022, dropping to six in 2023, three in 2024, rebounding to six in 2025, and one award in early 2026 (February). Only two awards with combined potential value of $33.9 million are scheduled to reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete risk but signaling heavy backlog concentration in the mid-to-long term. The vendor operates as a pure prime with zero subcontractor awards in the source dataset, indicating a strategy of direct execution rather than teaming or subcontracting relationships.

Service Contract Inventory data captures a subset of Energy Systems Group's federal services activity: $21.1 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024 ($8.1 million in FY2022 across 15.1 FTEs, $6.5 million in FY2023 across 9.8 FTEs, $6.5 million in FY2024 across 14.8 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts range from a 10th percentile of $167.11 per hour for field-level HVAC technician labor through a median of $506.76 per hour for engineering and project management roles to a 90th percentile of $1,630.72 per hour for senior technical and program leadership positions. The vendor performs all SCI-reportable work with its own labor; average sub-hours share across prime contracts is zero percent. Energy Systems Group's corporate structure includes a sister subsidiary, Pacificwest Energy Solutions Inc., designated as minority-owned and Asian-Pacific American-owned, suggesting potential team or joint-venture positioning on set-aside opportunities, though Energy Systems Group itself competes full-and-open and carries no SBA designations.