Federal contractor · DULUTH, MN
ALLETE, INC.
ALLETE, INC. received $1.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 21 awards (+130% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $3.4M. Its largest customer was Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons ($1.1M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $1.2M
- New awards
- 21
- Sole-source
- 100%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- PU1SE6QEDFJ9
Company family
Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.
4 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $1.2M in FY2026 together.
- ALLETE, INC.DULUTH, MN · Family page$1.2M
- MINNESOTA POWER COMPANYDULUTH, MN$0
- SUPERIOR WATER LIGHT & POWER COSUPERIOR, WI$0
- WATER CHEMICAL SERVICE INCORPORATEDABERDEEN, MD$0
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 100.6KFY2017
- 63.1KFY2018
- 61.3KFY2019
- 38.5KFY2020
- 172.2KFY2021
- 387.9KFY2022
- 644.2KFY2023
- 153KFY2024
- 538.4KFY2025
- 1.2MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- 18 awards
- Department of the Army$162.6K13%3 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Facilities & utilities$1.2M100%
Where the work was performed
- St. Louis County, MN$1.2M97%
- Aitkin County, MN$33K2.7%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition100%US 39% · $1.2M
- Sole-source awards100%US 30% · $1.2M
- Single-offer competitions0.0%US 8.8% · $0
- Urgency justifications0.0%US 5.1% · $0
A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.
Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts
- Department of Justice · 17 awards
- Department of the Army$162.6KDepartment of Defense · 2 awards
Largest awards
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· St. Louis County, MN· Facilities & utilities· Apr 30, 2026 – Jul 29, 2026· 15B41326P00000061
- Department of the Army· St. Louis County, MN· Facilities & utilities· Jan 20, 2017 – Jun 3, 2026· W912ES17P0013
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· St. Louis County, MN· Facilities & utilities· Jul 16, 2025 – Feb 13, 2026· 15B41325P00000063
- SST-P4/P6-MN POWER-Q3-FY26 APRIL 1, 2026, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2026 AMOUNT EST/METERED INV QUANTITIES$179.7KFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· St. Louis County, MN· Facilities & utilities· Apr 2, 2026 – Jul 13, 2026· 15B41326P00000055
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· St. Louis County, MN· Facilities & utilities· Mar 20, 2026 – Apr 13, 2026· 15B41326P00000054
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· St. Louis County, MN· Facilities & utilities· Nov 18, 2025 – Feb 5, 2026· 15B41326P00000023
- Department of the Army· St. Louis County, MN· Facilities & utilities· Jun 11, 2026 – Jun 11, 2026· W911XK26PA005
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· St. Louis County, MN· Facilities & utilities· May 15, 2026 – Jun 10, 2026· 15B40226P00000039
Federal grants & assistance received
Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.
ALLETE, INC. received -$14.9K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 3 actions (0 new awards), −101% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 81.254 · Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (-$14.9K).
- Assistance · FY2026
- -$14.9K
- New awards
- 0
- Actions
- 3
- Since FY2024
- $51.2M
Assistance by fiscal year
- 50MFY2024
- 1.3MFY2025
- -14.9KFY2026
By type
- Grants-$14.9K0.0%
Top programs
- 81.254 · Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience-$14.9K0.0%
Largest awards
- 81.254 · Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience· Department of Energy· Project grant· Sep 30, 2024 – Jul 28, 2026· DEGD0000924
Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.
Competitors
Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.
Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO$1.3M+30% in FY2026DENVER, CO · 5 entities · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Electric power generation, transmission and distributionArmy · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
- CLECO POWER LLC$2.9M+2,448% in FY2026PINEVILLE, LA · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
- SANTEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$3.1M+31% in FY2026KINGSTREE, SC · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.
Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.
Lobbying and PAC activity
Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.
Across the company family of ALLETE, INC. (4 recipients).
Matched organizations
- ALLETE, INC.AI match · 100%
- Lobbying · 2025
- $80K
- 4 reports
- Lobbying · 2023–2026
- $280K
Lobbying by year
- 2023$80K4 reports
- 2024$80K4 reports
- 2025$80K4 reports
- 2026$40K2 reports
Top issues
- Budget and appropriations14 reports
- Energy and nuclear14 reports
Who was contacted
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)14 reports
- Energy - Dept of14 reports
- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
- U.S. SENATE14 reports
Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).
Lobbying firms hired
- Primacy Strategy Group$280K14 reports
Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.
PACs sponsored
- ALLETE PAC$0 raised this cycle
PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.
Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.
Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.
Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.