Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association, Inc.

Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association, Inc., a not-for-profit electric utility cooperative headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, supplies electrical utility services and grid modernization infrastructure to federal agencies and rural communities across northern Colorado as a prime contractor (85% of recent awards) and subrecipient on federal grant programs. The cooperative operates without SBA set-aside designation and competes on full-and-open utility service and rural electrification grounds. Poudre Valley has been registered in SAM.gov since October 2003 and holds no parent contract vehicles; federal engagement flows through direct purchase orders with utility-consuming agencies and project grants from rural infrastructure and clean-energy programs.

The cooperative's contract footprint centers on utility service delivery. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) dominates contract volume and potential value—17 awards carrying $3.6 million combined potential value for electrical utility services at NIST's Fort Collins site, with a definitive contract valued at one million dollars running through January 2032. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration accounts for 8 awards and $602 thousand in combined potential value for electrical services in Boulder, Colorado, with awards ranging from a $218,736 purchase order (July 2026, completion June 2031) to a $39,681 Time and Materials order (August 2021). The Bureau of Reclamation holds 2 awards and $157 thousand in combined potential value for utility services continuation under the "EC - UTILITY - POUDRE VALLEY" contract vehicle. Across 71 total awards in the source data, fifteen distinct federal agencies have engaged Poudre Valley; the top five by potential value account for 86% of combined potential value, with the Department of Commerce agencies (NIST, NTIA, and NOAA) representing the overwhelming customer concentration.

Federal grant work anchors the cooperative's recent growth trajectory and largest dollar exposure. Poudre Valley received a $39.8 million project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service under the New Empowering Rural America (New ERA) Program (CFDA 10.758) in January 2025 for electric infrastructure transformation, renewable energy deployment, and grid modernization across northern Colorado. A companion New ERA grant of $1.5 million followed in the same award cycle (January 2025, completion January 2027). The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability awarded a project grant for the Pinewood Springs Energy Resiliency Microgrid (September 2024–September 2025), engineering and constructing a microgrid system to serve emergency-response facilities. Poudre Valley acts as subrecipient under the Colorado Energy Office on four grid-hardening and advanced-grid-monitoring grants (December 2024–March 2026), including distribution-line reconductoring in Weld County and battery energy storage deployment in the Town of Livermore. The source cites approximately $41.8 million in federal grants secured by Poudre Valley focused on clean energy, grid modernization, and energy resilience—substantially exceeding the $6.2 million combined potential value of contracts in the recent award snapshot. Contract work completion faces minimal recompete pressure; three awards worth $191 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Utility service awards carry long performance periods (five- to ten-year terms), and the cooperative's NAICS concentration centers on Electric Power Distribution (31 awards) and Hydroelectric Power Generation (4 awards), with PSC coding running heavily to Utilities-Electric (49 awards).