KBC Energy Solutions LLC

KBC Energy Solutions LLC, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business based in Washington, DC, operates exclusively as a prime contractor on defense and energy research-and-development contracts and federal IT services, holding no subcontract positions. The company is a black American-owned for-profit limited liability company competing under full-and-open and small-business set-aside designations across a small number of major federal relationships anchored by mission-critical energy and defense work.

KBC's customer footprint concentrates on two agencies accounting for essentially all recent potential value. The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy dominates the portfolio — a single $251.99 million cost-plus-award-fee definitive contract awarded April 1, 2023, for mission execution support services spanning technical and administrative support across multiple sites in support of the National Energy Technology Laboratory's mission in program and project management, energy market analysis, and policy disciplines. The Missile Defense Agency represents the second customer tier, with two awards issued in December 2025: a seat on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery contract carrying a $151 billion ceiling with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, and an initial delivery order under that IDIQ with an ultimate completion date of February 27, 2026. GSA's Federal Acquisition Service provides the third customer relationship through a Federal Supply Schedule contract awarded June 7, 2024, with a $475 thousand ceiling running through June 6, 2029. The GSA Schedule spans 46 IT and database labor categories at hourly rates from $66.61 (Technical Specialist I) through $309.41 (Information Services Consultant with PhD credentials), covering project management, programming, system analysis, database administration, and technical support roles without security-clearance offerings.

The Department of Energy contract, running through March 31, 2028, exemplifies KBC's engagement model on large prime work. In fiscal 2024, KBC invoiced $38.8 million in government labor costs across 173 federal FTEs and 361,031 contractor hours under that contract — a blended rate of $107.54 per hour — with 100 percent of contractor hours subcontracted to a team including Ci-Discern LLC, Battery Innovation Center Institute Inc., and multi-vendor professional services providers delivering subject matter expertise, program management, curriculum development, and technical evaluation across energy technologies, battery innovation, manufacturing, and grid modernization. The SCI data shows KBC's invoiced federal service-contract revenue rose from $11.8 million in FY2023 (63.6 contract-level FTEs) to $38.8 million in FY2024 (173 FTEs), reflecting ramping work on the NETL mission-execution contract. One award — the Department of Energy definitive contract — faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing $252 million in combined potential value to recompete. Activity pace remains modest at four total awards across 2023–2025, but the SHIELD IDIQ's $151 billion ceiling establishes substantial optionality for task-order growth under that vehicle, with individual delivery orders structured to leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open-systems architectures across multiple NAICS codes and security classification levels.