Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation

Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation, a for-profit energy utility subsidiary of Integrys Holding, Inc. based in Rosemount, Minnesota, supplies natural gas and electric utility services to federal correctional and medical facilities as a prime contractor on full-and-open firm-fixed-price purchase orders with no set-aside designations. The company operates as a child entity registered in the System for Award Management since 2006 and competes entirely outside set-aside categories.

Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation serves a tightly concentrated federal customer base anchored by the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons. The top three customers account for 83% of recent awards by count and 93% by combined potential value. Federal Correctional Institution Sandstone dominates the relationship — 40 awards totaling $1.9 million in combined potential value — with quarterly firm-fixed-price purchase orders for natural gas distribution and electric utility services covering multiple facility cost centers including building, garage, and landscape accounts. Federal Medical Center Rochester represents the second customer concentration with 19 awards totaling $194 thousand, also for metered natural gas and electric services. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 5 contributes a secondary concentration of 7 awards worth $1 million combined potential value. All customer relationships operate on recurring quarterly contracting cycles with order values typically ranging between $3,000 and $56,000 per quarter.

The vendor's capability portfolio is narrowly specialized. Recent representative awards include a $166,958 firm-fixed-price purchase order with FCI Sandstone covering natural gas distribution across cost centers P4 and P6 for fiscal year 2026 (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026); a $54,816 purchase order with FCI Sandstone for natural gas transportation through December 31, 2026 (awarded October 1, 2026); and a $56,318 quarterly natural gas delivery contract with FCI Sandstone covering January 1 through March 31, 2025. The source data reflects 70 awards under natural gas distribution NAICS 621320, 5 awards for electric power distribution, and 4 awards for utility regulation and administration. Across PSC coding, 54 awards fall under utilities-gas, 9 under utilities-water, and 4 under utilities-electric, with the remainder spanning compressed gases and miscellaneous testing. Activity has remained sparse and inconsistent — 2 awards in 2021, 8 in 2022, 4 in 2023, 5 in 2025, and 4 in 2026 — with four awards totaling $431 thousand reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. The vendor carries no subcontract footprint and operates exclusively as a prime contractor on spot-purchase utility orders to two Bureau of Prisons facilities and one GSA regional office in Minnesota.