Federal contractor · BILLINGS, MT

YELLOWSTONE ELECTRIC CO

YELLOWSTONE ELECTRIC CO received $1.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−95% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $88.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($748.7K).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.4M
New awards
4
Sole-source
20%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 5.8MFY2017
  2. 5MFY2018
  3. 15.6MFY2019
  4. 6.3MFY2020
  5. 10.9MFY2021
  6. 1.1MFY2022
  7. 2.9MFY2023
  8. 9.9MFY2024
  9. 29.9MFY2025
  10. 1.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$748.7K53%
    1 awards
  2. Bureau of Reclamation$659.1K47%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$748.7K53%
  2. Construction & real property$382K27%
  3. Other equipment & supplies$277.1K20%

Where the work was performed

  1. Russell County, KY$748.7K53%
  2. Gem County, ID$382K27%
  3. Coconino County, AZ$277.1K20%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition20%
    US 39% · $277.1K
  • Sole-source awards20%
    US 30% · $277.1K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications20%
    US 5.1% · $277.1K

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

  1. Bureau of Reclamation$277.1K
    Department of the Interior · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. REPLACE MAIN S.U. TRANSFORMERS&ISO PHASE BUS$49.4M
    Bureau of Reclamation· Coconino County, AZ· Construction & real property· Jul 22, 2017 – Jul 1, 2026· INR15PC00081
  2. WOLF CREEK POWERPLANT GENERATOR STEP-UP UNIT (GSU) TRANSFORMER REPLACEMENT PROJECT$30.6M
    Department of the Army· Russell County, KY· Equipment maintenance· Mar 20, 2025 – Apr 1, 2026· W912P525C1001
  3. BLACK CANYON SWITCHYARD AND STATION SERVICE UPGRADES$7.8M
    Bureau of Reclamation· Gem County, ID· Construction & real property· Aug 12, 2024 – Aug 13, 2026· 140R1024C0005
  4. REFUBISHED TRANSFORMER TO INCLUDE INSTALLATION.$277.1K
    Bureau of Reclamation· Coconino County, AZ· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 23, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026· 140R4026P0082

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-contracts: $151.1K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. RJS CONSTRUCTION INC$151.1K100%
    UNION GAP, WA · 1 subaward

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 · $151.1K reported

  1. RJS CONSTRUCTION INC$151.1K
    UNION GAP, WA · 1 subaward · Nonresidential building construction

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

  1. PAF ELECTRICAL, INC.$58.3M
    PORTLAND, OR · 75% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Electrical equipment manufacturingBureau of Reclamation · Electrical equipment manufacturing
  2. PD POWER SYSTEMS, LLC$73.2M−48% in FY2026
    SPRINGFIELD, VA · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Electrical equipment manufacturing
  3. PALOUSE POWER LLC$11M+107% in FY2026
    QUINCY, WA · 24% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Reclamation · Other heavy and civil engineering constructionBureau of Reclamation · Utility system construction

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 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.