Rappahannock Electric Cooperative

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, a non-profit member-owned electric utility cooperative headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, provides electric utility services, power line repair and replacement, electrical infrastructure installation, and grid modernization to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor and grant recipient. The cooperative serves over 164,000 connections across 22 counties in Virginia and competes full-and-open without set-aside designations across its federal portfolio.

The cooperative's federal contract footprint is heavily concentrated with the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region, which accounts for 71 awards and $70.1 million in combined potential value—86% of the total contract pipeline. The Smithsonian Institution (10 awards, $2.9 million), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (13 awards, $2 million), and the General Services Administration (3 awards, $2.6 million) round out the primary customer set. Recent contract work includes a $763,201 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on March 1, 2025, for electrical service supply at ATF facilities through February 2030; a $367,000 purchase order from the Smithsonian Institution's Office of the Chief Financial Officer for utility-electric services in Fredericksburg through September 2025; a $24,942 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Drug Enforcement Administration on August 5, 2025, for electrical services and security measure installation through April 2026; and a $52,657 purchase order from the Bureau of Indian Education on April 27, 2023, for electric utility services at the BIE's Eastern Network Operations Center through April 2028.

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative places the majority of its Army work under two Base Ordering Agreements—DABB2772C0016 (36 task orders, $990 thousand combined potential value) and DABB2272C0016 (2 task orders)—and an Indefinite Delivery Contract W91QEY08A0003 (45 task orders, $990 thousand). Activity has remained flat at two to five awards per year across 2022–2026, with minimal recompete exposure—only one award reaching completion in the next twenty-four months. The cooperative also acts as a sub-recipient under the Federal Emergency Management Agency, receiving sub-awards from the Emergency Management Department for disaster response and utility restoration work related to Winter Storm Frida and other emergency events between 2022 and 2023.

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative has received substantial federal grant funding as a prime recipient. The Department of Energy's Office of Cyber Security awarded two cooperative agreements totaling $3.815 million under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) on August 1, 2026, running through July 31, 2029—one for $2.302 million to provide direct support enabling utilities to enhance the cybersecurity posture of electric utility operations technology, and another for $1.513 million to strengthen cybersecurity support for the cooperative and municipal utility community. The Department of Energy's Grid Deployment Office awarded a $76.3 million Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) on October 1, 2024, extending through September 30, 2029, to modernize the cooperative's distribution system in Fredericksburg through utility fiber network expansion, substation security system upgrades, advanced metering infrastructure deployment, and distributed energy resource management system integration under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.