Utility Energy Systems, LLC

Utility Energy Systems, LLC, a small-business-only limited liability company based in Elk River, Minnesota, repairs and maintains propane and natural gas infrastructure, dry cleaning equipment, and facility systems for federal agencies as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open awards. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) with no subcontract footprint, competing across multiple federal customers under small-business designations on task orders and purchase orders with ceiling values typically between $15 thousand and $3.5 million.

The vendor's customer footprint concentrates heavily on the Department of the Air Force. Air Combat Command dominates both volume and dollars, accounting for 6 of 10 awards and $4.4 million of the $5.1 million combined potential value across all recent work. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Waseca, the Department of the Interior National Park Service Pacific West Region, the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 8, and the Air Force Global Strike Command round out the active customer set, together accounting for the remaining 4 awards and $713 thousand in potential value. Utility Energy Systems holds no seats on government-wide vehicles (GWACs, BPAs, or agency-wide IDIQs); all work flows through individual task orders and purchase orders issued directly by contracting offices.

Capability work centers on propane air-mixing plant maintenance, propane and natural gas tank installation and replumbing, vaporizer inspection and maintenance, dry cleaning equipment repair, and facility systems maintenance. The largest award is a $3.49 million firm fixed-price definitive contract with Air Combat Command for propane air mixing plant maintenance services at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, running through June 30, 2027, with a base year plus four option years. Recent smaller awards include a $207 thousand purchase order from the National Park Service for propane tank replumbing and testing at Yosemite National Park (Jun 2025), a $100 thousand small-business-set-aside purchase order from GSA for propane vaporizer installation at the Pembina Land Port of Entry in North Dakota (Jul 2024), and multiple dry cleaning machine repair and maintenance orders from Air Combat Command valued at $42 thousand to $86 thousand (Feb–Sep 2025). A $773 thousand FY26 DOME service contract with Air Combat Command, awarded Aug 1, 2026, is the most recent award and runs through July 31, 2031.

Award volume has remained modest and episodic — two awards in 2021, one in 2022, two in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026 — with one award (the Minot Air Force Base contract, $3.5 million) set to reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete risk. The vendor has invoiced $4.3 million (85% of combined potential value) across the ten awards in the source data range, indicating a modest but active prime footprint in specialized infrastructure and equipment maintenance for small-business-reserved federal procurements. No parent vehicles, no subcontract relationships, and no federal grant work are present in the source material.