Federal contractor · HOUSTON, TX
DIRECT ENERGY BUSINESS LLC
DIRECT ENERGY BUSINESS LLC received $47.1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 90 awards (+19% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $287.8M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($17.9M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $47.1M
- New awards
- 90
- Sole-source
- 0.0%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- UMV6PCA7Z6V5
- Parent company
- CENTRICA PLC
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 9.8MFY2017
- 11.1MFY2018
- 16.5MFY2019
- 22.8MFY2020
- 17.2MFY2021
- 36.8MFY2022
- 33.7MFY2023
- 38.6MFY2024
- 39.5MFY2025
- 47.1MFY2026
- 14.7MFY2027
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$17.9M38%22 awards
- Public Buildings Service$17.9M38%41 awards
- 20 awards
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing$4.1M8.7%1 awards
- Social Security Administration$1.1M2.4%1 awards
- Internal Revenue Service$499.4K1.1%2 awards
- National Archives and Records Administration$438.6K0.9%2 awards
- 1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Facilities & utilities$47.1M100%
Where the work was performed
- New York County, NY$12M26%
- Plymouth County, MA$5.9M12%
- Tarrant County, TX$5.5M12%
- Kings County, NY$4.3M9.0%
- Harris County, TX$3.4M7.1%
- Bronx County, NY$3.1M6.6%
- San Diego County, CA$1.9M4.0%
- San Francisco County, CA$1.7M3.6%
- Middlesex County, MA$1.6M3.3%
- Westchester County, NY$1.3M2.7%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition0.0%US 39% · $0
- Sole-source awards0.0%US 30% · $0
- 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.
Largest awards
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing· Tarrant County, TX· Facilities & utilities· May 20, 2024 – Jun 5, 2026· 2031ZA24F00422
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Bronx County, NY· Facilities & utilities· Jun 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2026· 36C24225F0080
- Department of Veterans Affairs· New York County, NY· Facilities & utilities· Jun 10, 2025 – Oct 1, 2026· 36C24225F0119
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Plymouth County, MA· Facilities & utilities· Oct 7, 2025 – Oct 7, 2025· 36C24126F0025
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Kings County, NY· Facilities & utilities· Jun 10, 2025 – Oct 1, 2026· 36C24225F0102
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Suffolk County, MA· Facilities & utilities· Oct 1, 2024 – Jul 2, 2026· 36C24125F0019
- Public Buildings Service· New York County, NY· Facilities & utilities· Oct 29, 2025 – Oct 29, 2025· 47PA0826F0002
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Dutchess County, NY· Facilities & utilities· Nov 1, 2023 – Oct 22, 2025· 36C24224F0041
Subawards
Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.
As a prime: who it pays · FY2026
No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.
As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026
No subawards reported to it in FY2026.
Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.
Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.
Teaming partners
Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.
Companies it pays
No subawards reported to other companies.
Primes that pay it
2 companies · $264.6K reported
- LEXINGTON, MA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
- BOWLING GREEN, KY · 1 subaward · Technical and trade schools
Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.
Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.
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 10 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- BLACK HILLS SERVICE COMPANY, LLC$58.6M+92% in FY2026RAPID CITY, SD · 2 entities · 46% 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
- VICINITY ENERGY INC.$49.9M−85% in FY2026BOSTON, MA · 2 entities · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Electric power generation, transmission and distributionPublic Buildings Service · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
- PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY$138.3M−84% in FY2026OAKLAND, CA · 58% 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 distributionSocial Security Administration · 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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.
Matched organizations
- DIRECT ENERGYAI match · 99%
PACs sponsored
- DIRECT ENERGY EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (DEEPAC)$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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.
Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.