Powell Valley Electric Cooperative

Powell Valley Electric Cooperative, a tax-exempt non-profit electric utility cooperative headquartered in New Tazewell, Tennessee, provides electrical utility services to the United States Penitentiary in Lee County as a prime contractor under a ten-year Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons, with cumulative awards totaling approximately $33.8 million since 2021. The cooperative competes on full-and-open, non-set-aside basis and operates as a captive supplier to a single federal customer.

The cooperative's federal footprint is dominated by recurring monthly and quarterly delivery orders under Indefinite Delivery Contract 15B11720D00000060, which runs through September 2030 with a $13.1 million ceiling. Seventy-one delivery orders under this vehicle represent 89% of recent award count and 58% of combined potential value. Representative quarterly orders include a $300 thousand delivery order issued July 1, 2026, for fourth-quarter FY 2026 electrical services; a $326,338 order issued April 1, 2026, for third-quarter FY 2026 coverage; and a $297,112 order issued January 1, 2026, for second-quarter FY 2026 services. Place of performance is consistently New Tazewell, Tennessee. Each delivery order carries firm fixed-price terms with quarterly or monthly performance periods. The cooperative also holds a secondary Indefinite Delivery Contract JX00C347 with three task orders valued at $3.9 million combined, though the primary funding source remains the Lee County facility. No subcontractors are identified across the prime footprint.

Recent grant activity appears episodic and routed through state intermediaries rather than direct federal grant awards. The cooperative received sub-award status under the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency for pandemic emergency protective measures reimbursements (awards on January 28, 2026, September 17, 2025, June 2, 2025, and April 9, 2025), likely related to emergency management support during the COVID-19 pandemic. These sub-awards carry no specified dollar values in the source material.

Award activity shows decline from twelve orders in 2022 to four in 2026 year-to-date, though this reflects the shift from monthly to quarterly billing under the mature IDC rather than competitive erosion. One award (combined potential value $300 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term given the IDC's September 2030 runway. The cooperative's NAICS profile is concentrated in Electric Power Distribution (68 awards) and Other Electric Power Generation (14 awards), with PSC coding aligned to Utilities—Electric across 80 awards. Combined obligated spend is $33.2 million against $58.8 million combined potential value, representing 56% utilization and reflecting the ongoing nature of quarterly delivery orders under the parent IDC structure.