Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., registered in SAM.gov since April 2002, is a non-profit electric distribution cooperative serving over 220,000 customers across central Florida. The cooperative provides electric utility services and grid modernization solutions to both commercial and federal entities. As a tax-exempt corporate entity, Sumter Electric Cooperative has established itself as a reliable partner for the federal government, delivering essential utility services and implementing critical infrastructure improvements through both contract and grant mechanisms.

Sumter Electric Cooperative's federal contract work has been exclusively dedicated to providing electric utility services to the Federal Correctional Complex Coleman in Sumterville, Florida, under the Department of Justice's Bureau of Prisons. Since 2021, the cooperative has maintained a consistent contractual relationship with FCC Coleman through a series of firm fixed price delivery orders, with individual contract values ranging from approximately $977,000 to $3.7 million for performance periods typically lasting six to eight months. The most recent contract, awarded on October 1, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $1,020,622.06 and is scheduled for completion by January 30, 2026. Prior awards include a $3,725,576.54 delivery order for fiscal year 2025 (awarded November 1, 2024), a $1,787,407.86 purchase order for fiscal year 2024 (awarded November 7, 2023), and multiple earlier delivery orders spanning from 2021 through 2023 with values ranging from $977,113 to $3,495,523.67. All of these contracts have been awarded without small business set-aside designations, reflecting the cooperative's status as the incumbent prime contractor providing essential utility infrastructure support to federal correctional operations.

Sumter Electric Cooperative's federal grant portfolio demonstrates significant investment in grid modernization and clean energy infrastructure development. The cooperative received a $70,476,750 project grant from the Department of Energy under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254), effective October 1, 2024, with a completion date of September 30, 2029. This grant supports a comprehensive five-year initiative to improve system flexibility, efficiency, and reliability through the conversion of overhead utilities to underground systems, enhancement of conductor capacity and temperature resistance, and hardening of distribution lines and poles to withstand adverse conditions. Additionally, the cooperative was awarded a $27,553,861 project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service under the New Empowering Rural America program (CFDA 10.758) on January 14, 2025, with performance extending through January 14, 2027. This grant enables energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy deployment, and clean energy initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions while enhancing system resilience and reliability. Beyond these prime grants, Sumter Electric Cooperative has received multiple sub-grant awards from the State of Florida Division of Emergency Management, including funding for disaster recovery operations, emergency management costs, and power restoration efforts related to hurricanes and other emergency events, with recent sub-awards dating from February 2024 through May 2025 for force account costs, vegetation and tree contractors, and emergency operations support.