Federal contractor · CORTEZ, CO
EMPIRE ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC.
EMPIRE ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC. received $54.6K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−44% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $767.6K. Its largest customer was Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education ($39K).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $54.6K
- New awards
- 4
- Sole-source
- 100%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- LMKVQ8JNXN75
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 77.3KFY2017
- 23.8KFY2018
- 138KFY2019
- 111.2KFY2020
- 62.1KFY2021
- 64KFY2022
- 104.6KFY2023
- 35KFY2024
- 96.9KFY2025
- 54.6KFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- 3 awards
- Indian Health Service$15.6K29%1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Facilities & utilities$54.6K100%
Where the work was performed
- Montezuma County, CO$54.6K100%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition100%US 39% · $54.6K
- Sole-source awards100%US 30% · $54.6K
- 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
- Department of the Interior · 1 awards
Largest awards
- Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Montezuma County, CO· Facilities & utilities· Dec 4, 2025 – Dec 4, 2025· 140A0726P0002
- Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Montezuma County, CO· Facilities & utilities· Dec 19, 2024 – Apr 21, 2026· 140A0725P0001
- Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Montezuma County, CO· Facilities & utilities· Nov 8, 2023 – Mar 12, 2026· 140A0724P0001
- Indian Health Service· Montezuma County, CO· Facilities & utilities· Jan 24, 2023 – Feb 3, 2026· 75H70723P00057
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
- Sub-grants: $499K (1 subaward)
1 prime
- COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE$499K100%DENVER, CO · 1 subaward
By fiscal year
- FY2025: $0 paid out · $755.7K received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $499K received
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
1 company · $1.3M reported
- COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE$1.3MDENVER, CO · 3 subawards
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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- KIT CARSON ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.$157.4K−45% in FY2026TAOS, NM · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
- NORTHERN PLAINS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE$230.8K−24% in FY2026CARRINGTON, ND · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
- LACREEK ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC.$145.3K+28% in FY2026MARTIN, SD · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education · 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.
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.