National Grid USA Service Company, Inc.

National Grid USA Service Company, Inc. is a foreign-owned, for-profit energy utility company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, that operates as a prime contractor providing electric and natural gas utility services to federal agencies on a full-and-open (non-set-aside) basis. The company holds a dominant $50 million single-award indefinite delivery contract (IDC GS00P12BSD0879) with the General Services Administration through January 2033, under which it has placed 216 task orders valued at $311.3 million—representing 83% of its federal contract footprint. National Grid competes across the full federal market without small business certifications, delivering essential utility infrastructure rather than professional services or IT solutions.

Customer concentration is heavily tilted toward Veterans Affairs and Bureau of Prisons facilities. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 anchors the top-dollar ranking with 22 awards valued at $35.4 million, while the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office holds only 2 awards but carries $108.2 million in combined potential value—a multi-year energy services arrangement. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 2 leads in award count with 65 orders ($20.3 million), followed by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 with 61 awards ($7.9 million). These five customer segments represent 70% of the company's combined potential value, with federal correctional institutions and veteran medical centers forming the operational core. Geographic footprint concentrates in the Northeast—Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C.—reflecting National Grid's commercial utility service territory.

Work is categorized almost entirely under utility PSC codes: 134 awards under Utilities-Gas (PSC 54xx), 112 under Utilities-Electric (PSC 54xx), with small volumes in construction and operation of other utilities. The NAICS profile aligns: 219 awards span Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation (221111), 24 under Natural Gas Distribution (221210), 7 under Electric Power Distribution (221122), and a handful of energy research and development awards. Recent delivery orders exemplify the scope—a $2.63 million firm fixed-price order from the Air Force Research Laboratory (October 2025) for electricity-test sites at Rome, New York (completion September 2035), a $900 thousand order from the Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn for natural gas services (October 2025, completing September 2026), a $712 thousand Utility Energy Service Contract for LED lighting upgrades at Northampton VA Health Care System (August 2024, completing August 2029), and a $2.76 million natural gas contract modification exercising option year three for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (April 2023). Three federal grants round out the portfolio: a Department of Energy project grant (August 2024–July 2029) for future-grid distributed energy resources through advanced network management, a Department of Energy/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy cooperative agreement (October 2023–September 2025) for the Northeast Electric Highways Study, and an Office of Fossil Energy cooperative agreement (October 2022–October 2024) for residential gas demand response pilots.

Activity has remained steady—10 to 12 prime awards annually over the past five years—with 267 total prime and sub awards documented across the lifetime of the portfolio, generating $373.3 million in combined potential value (and $402.6 million obligated, indicating strong execution). In its rare subcontractor role (2% of awards), National Grid delivers utility services to Valkyrie Enterprises on Department of Defense fuel and MIT Lincoln Laboratory R&D work, and to EaglePicher Technologies for facility electrical infrastructure upgrades in Southbridge, Massachusetts. The 13 awards maturing in the next twenty-four months carry only $4.2 million in combined potential value—minimal recompete exposure given the dominance of the multi-year GSA IDC vehicle, which does not expire until January 2033. National Grid's federal footprint represents a stable, low-volatility utility services book anchored to a single large vehicle serving a dispersed customer base across VA, DoJ, and civilian agencies with recurring, predictable energy needs at geographically fixed federal facilities.