Army Corps awards $116 million for microgrids at Fort Hood and Savannah, each with a single bid

Both awards appeared in the Pentagon's daily contract announcements in the last week of October, as compiled by ClearanceJobs. Dominion's firm-fixed-price contract is worth $61,011,748, paid with fiscal 2027 defense-wide military construction money, and the work is due by May 7, 2029. The Corps posted that solicitation online and got one bid.

Canoochee, an electric cooperative based in Reidsville, Georgia, won $54,791,243 to build a microgrid and power generation on a design-bid-build basis under the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program (ERCIP). The money comes from fiscal 2023 and 2025 defense-wide military construction funds, and completion is set for April 25, 2029. The notice says the Corps asked only one company to bid.

Both companies own utility systems at the bases involved. Dominion took over Fort Hood's electric and natural gas distribution in 2016 under a 50-year, $740.2 million Defense Logistics Agency contract, GovConWire reported then. In an August 2025 notice, the Louisville District said the fiscal 2024 defense authorization act lets it award certain ERCIP projects without competition to the owner of a privatized utility that serves only a military installation. That notice named Canoochee, which owns the distribution switching station at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield, for a natural gas generation plant with microgrid controls estimated at $25 million to $100 million.

The Savannah announcement does not name an installation. Hunter Army Airfield is in Savannah, and the contractor, contracting office and scope match the 2025 notice. Neither announcement gives the size of the microgrids or names subcontractors.