Federal contractor · ATLANTA, GA

SOUTHERN COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, INC

SOUTHERN COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, INC received $187.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards. Since FY2017: $328.9K. Its largest customer was Forest Service ($188.7K). It also received $2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026: $187.7K
New awards: 2
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: H4TBHYFC6AX5
Parent company: SOUTHERN CO SERVICES INC

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.

Part of the POWERSECURE, INC. company family: 15 registered entities, $111.1M in FY2026 together. See the family

POWERSECURE, INC.WAKE FOREST, NC · Family page
Reported parent$0
ATLANTA GAS LIGHT COMPANYATLANTA, GA
Reported parent$52.1M
MISSISSIPPI POWER COGULFPORT, MS
Reported parent$24.5M
ALABAMA POWER COMPANYBIRMINGHAM, AL
Reported parent$19M
GEORGIA POWER COMPANYATLANTA, GA
AI name match · 99%$8M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

24.4KFY2017
21.1KFY2018
6KFY2019
4.8KFY2020
6KFY2021
79KFY2024
187.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Forest Service$188.7K100%
1 awards
Federal Emergency Management Agency-$1,0000.0%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

IT & telecom$187.7K100%

Where the work was performed

Fulton County, GA$188.7K100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $188.7K
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $188.7K
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

Forest Service$188.7K
Department of Agriculture · 1 awards

Largest awards

PROCURE HARRIS RADIO SUBSCRIBER SERVICES FOR THE USDA FOREST SERVICE ON THE SOUTHERN LINK NETWORK.$188.7K
Forest Service· Fulton County, GA· IT & telecom· Mar 13, 2026 – Mar 13, 2026· 12760426P0005
THE PURPOSE OF THIS PURCHASE ORDER IS TO PROCURE SERVICE FOR 25 RADIOS/BEEPERS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS THE 300-ACRE SITE OF THE SELMA MANUFACTURED HOUSING STORAGE SITE (MHSS).$17K
Federal Emergency Management Agency· Dallas County, AL· IT & telecom· May 3, 2019 – May 26, 2026· 70FB7019P00000002

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.

SOUTHERN COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, INC received $2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 4 actions (0 new awards), +280% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost ($2M).

Assistance · FY2026: $2M
New awards: 0
Actions: 4
Since FY2021: $9.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

1.2MFY2021
2.6MFY2022
1.8MFY2023
1MFY2024
523.4KFY2025
2MFY2026

By type

Direct payments$2M100%

Top programs

32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost$2M100%

Awarding agencies

Federal Communications Commission$2M100%

Largest awards

THE HIGH COST PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO COMPANIES WORKING TO EXPAND CONNECTIVITY IN UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS$6.7M
32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Oct 1, 2020 – Sep 30, 2026· HC-143000842-259010-FHCS
THE HIGH COST PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO COMPANIES WORKING TO EXPAND CONNECTIVITY IN UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS$1.6M
32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Oct 1, 2020 – Sep 30, 2026· HC-143000842-229006-FHCS

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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

5 companies · $51M reported

JOHNSON CONTROLS GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS, LLC$49.1M
MILWAUKEE, WI · 4 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
EDUCATION & TRAINING RESOURCES LLC$1.1M
BOWLING GREEN, KY · 4 subawards · Technical and trade schools
ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$354.6K
GROTON, CT · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services

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

SHO-ME POWER ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE$53.6M−15% in FY2026
MARSHFIELD, MO · 22% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
CANOOCHEE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP$37.1M−38% in FY2026
REIDSVILLE, GA · 19% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Electric power generation, transmission and distributionDefense Logistics Agency · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.$42.1M+55% in FY2026
HONOLULU, HI · 19% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Electric power generation, transmission and distributionFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Electric power generation, transmission and distributionAir Force · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution+1 more

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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.

Across the company family of POWERSECURE, INC. (15 recipients).

Matched organizations

ALABAMA POWER COMPANYAI match · 100%
GEORGIA POWER COMPANYAI match · 100%
MISSISSIPPI POWER COMPANYAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2026: $30K; 2 reports
PAC giving · 2026: $146K; 3 PACs

Lobbying by year

2026$30K
2 reports

Top issues

Who was contacted

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.$30K
2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Republican$98.5K67%
Democratic$47.5K33%

PACs sponsored

ALABAMA POWER CO EMPLOYEES FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION CMTE (APC EMPLOYEES FEDERAL PAC)$134.3K raised this cycle
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY FEDERAL PAC$85.8K raised this cycle
MISSISSIPPI POWER COMPANY FEDERAL PAC$31.8K 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.

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, 2026 cycle

Shomari Figures$10K
D-AL-2 · House · 1 PAC
Gary J. Palmer$10K
R-AL-6 · House · 1 PAC
Mike Rogers$10K
R-AL-3 · House · 1 PAC
Terri A. Sewell$10K
D-AL-7 · House · 1 PAC
Dale W. Strong$10K
R-AL-5 · House · 1 PAC
Robert B. Aderholt$5,000
R-AL-4 · House · 1 PAC
Rick W. Allen$5,000
R-GA-12 · House · 1 PAC
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.$5,000
D-GA-2 · House · 1 PAC
Earl L. "Buddy" Carter$5,000
R-GA-1 · House · 1 PAC
Mike Ezell$5,000
R-MS-4 · House · 1 PAC

$136K of the $146K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 24 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Robert B. Aderholt$10K
R-AL-4 · House · 1 PAC
Katie Boyd Britt$10K
R-AL · Senate · 1 PAC
Mike Ezell$10K
R-MS-4 · House · 1 PAC
Barry Moore$10K
R-AL-1 · House · 1 PAC
Gary J. Palmer$10K
R-AL-6 · House · 1 PAC

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

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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.