Federal contractor · RAPID CITY, SD

BLACK HILLS SERVICE COMPANY, LLC

BLACK HILLS SERVICE COMPANY, LLC received $33.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 19 awards (+93% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $72.1M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($30.8M).

Obligations · FY2026: $33.7M
New awards: 19
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: DW2WZZCZK345
Parent company: BLACK HILLS CORP

Other than small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $33.7M in FY2026 together.

BLACK HILLS SERVICE COMPANY, LLCRAPID CITY, SD · Family page
Reported parent$33.7M
BLACK HILLS UTILITY HOLDINGS INCRAPID CITY, SD
Reported parent-$9,128

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

2.7MFY2019
2.4MFY2020
2.4MFY2021
2.8MFY2022
3.2MFY2023
7.4MFY2024
17.5MFY2025
33.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of Veterans Affairs$30.8M91%
1 awards
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$2.4M7.1%
13 awards
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$481K1.4%
2 awards
Bureau of Reclamation$33K0.1%
2 awards
Department of Energy$00.0%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Facilities & utilities$33.7M100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Low competition100%
US 39% · $33.7M
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $33.7M
Single-offer competitions0.0%
US 8.7% · $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

Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$2.4M
Department of Justice · 12 awards
Department of Energy$0
Department of Energy · 1 awards

Largest awards

VISN 23 BLACK HILLS UESC$50.6M
Department of Veterans Affairs· Fall River County, SD· Facilities & utilities· Sep 30, 2024 – Jul 30, 2026· 36C77624F0019
NATURAL GAS CONTRACT BASE + 9 OY FOR HINU$884K
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Douglas County, KS· Facilities & utilities· Sep 20, 2024 – Aug 19, 2026· 140A2324F0194
GSA AREA WIDE NATURAL GAS - WIND RIVER AGENCY$401.3K
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Fremont County, WY· Facilities & utilities· Apr 23, 2019 – Dec 17, 2025· 140A0419F0025
FY26 P4 BLACK HILLS ELECTRIC JUL 26$221.4K
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Pennington County, SD· Facilities & utilities· Jul 13, 2026 – Aug 25, 2026· 15B40626F00000186
FY26 P4 BLACK HILLS ELECTRIC JUN 26$213.5K
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Pennington County, SD· Facilities & utilities· Jul 13, 2026 – Jul 28, 2026· 15B40626F00000187
FY26 P4 BLACK HILLS ELECTRIC OCT 25$212K
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fremont County, CO· Facilities & utilities· Dec 3, 2025 – Dec 3, 2025· 15B40626F00000013
FY25 P4 BLACK HILLS ELECTRIC SEP 25 SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2025$207.8K
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Pennington County, SD· Facilities & utilities· Aug 14, 2025 – Nov 4, 2025· 15B40625F00000270
FY26 P4 BLACK HILLS ELECTRIC MAY 26$205.2K
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Pennington County, SD· Facilities & utilities· Jun 15, 2026 – Jul 8, 2026· 15B40626F00000182

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 8 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

VICINITY ENERGY INC.$49.9M−85% in FY2026
BOSTON, MA · 2 entities · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK, INC.$50M−45% in FY2026
NEW YORK, NY · 2 entities · 78% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Electric power generation, transmission and distributionFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
ENGIE RESOURCES LLC$61.5M−77% in FY2026
HOUSTON, TX · 75% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Electric power generation, transmission and distributionFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

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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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 BLACK HILLS SERVICE COMPANY, LLC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

BLACK HILLS CORPORATIONAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $150K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $488K; $488K in its own reports
PAC giving · 2024: $50.5K; 1 PAC

Lobbying by year

2023$220K
4 reports
2024$40K
4 reports
2025$150K
4 reports
2026$78K
2 reports

Top issues

Budget and appropriations14 reports
Energy and nuclear14 reports
Environment and Superfund14 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code14 reports
Transportation14 reports
Homeland security9 reports
Agriculture1 reports
Telecommunications1 reports

Who was contacted

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).

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2024 cycle

Republican$50.5K100%

PACs sponsored

BLACK HILLS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$184K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Dusty Johnson$7,500
R-SD · House · 1 PAC
John Barrasso$6,000
R-WY · Senate · 1 PAC
Don Bacon$5,000
R-NE-2 · House · 1 PAC
Deb Fischer$5,000
R-NE · Senate · 1 PAC
Harriet M. Hageman$5,000
R-WY · House · 1 PAC
Cynthia M. Lummis$2,500
R-WY · Senate · 1 PAC
Bruce Westerman$2,500
R-AR-4 · House · 1 PAC
Jeff Crank$2,000
R-CO-5 · House · 1 PAC
Mike Flood$2,000
R-NE-1 · House · 1 PAC
Mariannette Miller-Meeks$2,000
R-IA-1 · House · 1 PAC

$50.5K of the $55.5K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 19 members of Congress.

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 471 · Fix Our Forests Act6 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025–2026
H.R. 5376 · Inflation Reduction Act of 20225 reports
117th Congress · Became law · 2023–2024
H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025–2026
H.R. 7655 · Pipeline Safety, Modernization, and Expansion Act of 20244 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2024
H.R. 5079 · Widespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure and Government Act4 reports

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.