Johnson Controls Government Systems, LLC

Johnson Controls Government Systems, LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer and energy-services contractor operating as a subsidiary of Johnson Controls Inc., delivers energy savings performance contracting, HVAC systems, building controls, and infrastructure modernization services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across 928 awards spanning 93 customer agencies. The vendor competes full-and-open, without set-aside designations, and operates predominantly as a prime (97% of awards) rather than a subcontractor.

Johnson Controls' federal capability footprint centers on energy efficiency, water conservation, and facility modernization. Representative work includes a $10.9 million definitive contract with the Army Corps of Engineers for the Aberdeen Proving Grounds ESPC project in Maryland (awarded July 2023), a $11.52 million GSA delivery order for the National Deep Energy Retrofit Program across four locations in northern Ohio under the DOE ESPC 2017-2022 vehicle (awarded March 2023, with $6.3 million invoiced in FY2024), a $2.31 million Department of Defense ESPC delivery order at Fort Irwin, California (awarded December 2024), a $12.24 million Army Corps of Engineers definitive contract for Aberdeen Proving Grounds Project 2 (awarded July 2023), and recurring annual ESPC payment orders from the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Archives and Records Administration for multi-year energy conservation projects.

Customer concentration is dominated by the Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Support Center Huntsville, which anchors 145 awards totaling $12.3 billion in combined potential value — representing 24% of the vendor's total pipeline across all 93 customer agencies. The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration ranks second by potential value ($5.25 billion across 7 awards), and the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy contributes $1.5 billion across 6 awards. The top five customer agencies by potential value account for roughly 42% of the combined pipeline; the top five by award count (led by the Army Corps of Engineers) cover 32% of all awards, reflecting the vendor's concentration in energy and facility modernization work rather than high-volume, low-dollar transactional contracting.

Johnson Controls holds prime positions on multiple indefinite-delivery vehicles anchoring its federal footprint. The vendor sits on the Energy Savings Performance Contracts IV (ESPC IV) as one of 15 prime awardees under a multiple-award IDIQ managed by the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville, with a $3 billion ceiling running through December 2035 (awarded June 2025). The vendor also holds a seat on the Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program Energy Savings Performance Contract Generation 4 (ESPC Gen 4), a $5 billion multiple-award IDIQ running through August 2028 (awarded August 2023), from which 21 task orders carry $441 million in combined potential value. Additional vehicles include the DOE Energy Savings Performance Contracts 2008-2019 (21 task orders, $441 million), Energy Savings Performance Contract II (19 task orders, $517.1 million), and older-generation ESPC contracts (IDC DACA8703D0032 with 194 task orders and $315.6 million, and IDC DABJ1703D0009 with 53 task orders and $5.9 million). The vendor competes for delivery orders under these vehicles against other qualified ESCOs, priming the majority of its federal revenue stream.

Activity has grown in the recent window, climbing from 7 awards in 2022 to 15 in 2024 and 19 in 2025, though the forward 24-month recompete window carries material exposure: 20 awards with completion dates in the next two years represent $474.1 million in combined potential value, creating near-term pipeline recompete and renewal risk concentrated in energy services and HVAC/building-controls work.

The vendor operates predominantly as a prime builder of its own delivery teams. Across SCI-reportable prime service contracts (covering federal services invoicing above the $150,000 reporting threshold), the vendor reported zero sub-hours share in FY2022–FY2024, indicating self-performance of scope on those engagements. However, Johnson Controls does subcontract on shipboard HVAC and air-conditioning work under East Coast Repair & Fabrication, LLC as prime on Navy surface-ship maintenance and repair contracts — recent sub work includes $645,373 for USS Iwo Jima air-conditioning plant compressor replacement (January 2025), compressor shaft seal and motor replacement on USS Thomas Hudner and USS Farragut (June–July 2025), and compressor overhaul on USS Carney (May 2024). The vendor also subcontracts to Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC on the Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant management and operating contract, with multiple incremental funding sub-awards spanning 2024–2025. These teaming relationships are secondary to the vendor's prime energy-services portfolio and reflect sector-specific OEM expertise in specialized mechanical systems rather than a broad subcontracting footprint.

SCI-reported invoicing across prime service contracts totaled $38.6 million over FY2022–FY2024 ($8.3 million in FY2022, $6 million in FY2023, $24.2 million in FY2024), with an FTE trajectory of 10.2 in FY2022, declining to 6.5 in FY2023, then expanding to 15.8 in FY2024. This represents SCI-captured federal service contract revenue only and excludes goods, products, and non-service work that dominate the vendor's broader federal footprint. Government-paid rates on SCI prime contracts ranged from $127.57/hr at the 10th percentile to a median of $321.14/hr, with senior engineering and specialized technical labor commanding rates through $4,062.15/hr at the 90th percentile, reflecting mixed delivery models across energy auditing, engineering design, construction management, and measurement-and-verification roles.

Johnson Controls competes across the portfolio without SBA set-asides and does not carry minority-owned, women-owned, small-business, or other designations in its federal contracting posture. The vendor's category concentration (top NAICS) spans Computer Systems Design Services (197 awards), Engineering Services (134 awards), and Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (81 awards), with support-professional engineering/technical work (136 awards) and HVAC maintenance, repair, and rebuilding (66 awards) dominating the PSC profile. This reflects the vendor's positioning as a full-capability energy-services prime delivering facility auditing, design engineering, construction and installation, control-system integration, and long-term measurement and verification of energy efficiency performance under energy savings performance contracts — work conducted at federal installations nationwide, with place of performance spanning domestic military and civilian federal sites (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Fort Irwin, Mayport Naval Station) and GSA regional offices managing multi-facility energy retrofit programs.