Otter Tail Power Co

Otter Tail Power Co, a for-profit electric utility based in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, supplies electricity and related utility services to federal facilities across the Department of the Interior, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the General Services Administration as a prime contractor, operating exclusively in full-and-open procurement without set-aside designations. The company operates a tri-state service territory spanning Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota and holds a corporate structure that includes four subsidiaries: Foley Company, Moorhead Electric Inc., Galva Foam Marine Industries Inc., and T.O. Plastics Inc.

Otter Tail Power Co's federal work centers on electricity delivery to facilities serving Native American communities and tribal government operations. The company's portfolio spans 183 prime awards with a combined potential value of $17.1 million, predominantly grounded in purchase orders for electric utility services under PSC code Utilities-Electric (179 awards), with secondary work in fossil fuel electric power generation and electric power distribution. Representative contracts include a $292,761.84 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Bureau of Indian Education for electricity service at Belcourt, North Dakota (January 1–December 31, 2025); a $191,512.52 purchase order from the Indian Health Service for electric utility services to the Cass Lake Hospital and adjacent buildings in Cass Lake, Minnesota (July 2022–July 2023); and a $124,847.32 purchase order from the Bureau of Indian Education for electricity services at Fort Totten, North Dakota (January 2026–January 2027). The company also holds a Department of Energy project grant awarded January 1, 2025, for an Innovative Distributed Energy Automation Program targeting clean energy access across the tri-state rural service area, with completion scheduled for October 10, 2025.

Customer concentration is heavy in the Interior Department's tribal-affairs portfolio. The top five funding customer streams account for 72% of award count and 74% of combined potential value, led by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Great Plains Region (49 awards, $3.7 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Education (10 awards, $3.6 million combined potential value). The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service represents 55 awards but carries only $167 thousand combined potential value, indicating small routine utility orders. The Indian Health Service (14 awards, $1.5 million combined potential value) rounds out the active customer set. Otter Tail Power Co sits on five Basic Ordering Agreements with the General Services Administration (BOAs 48459383, 70643170, 91608440, 91611042, and 23104116), holding between 9 and 12 task orders per agreement. The company operates entirely as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Recent activity remains modest — two to three awards per year over the past five years — with only three awards (combined potential value $796 thousand) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete.