Guernsey Selected to Support U.S. Army Utility Infrastructure and Energy Programs Through 2031
New contract expands Guernsey’s role in helping the U.S. Army strengthen utility reliability, improve installation resilience, and maximize the long-term value of taxpayer investments.
Reliable Utility Systems Support Mission Readiness
Reliable utility systems keep Army installations operating. When electric, water, wastewater, natural gas, or thermal utility systems underperform, the impacts extend far beyond maintenance budgets. They can affect mission readiness, installation resilience, installation quality of life, and the long-term cost of operating military facilities.
Army utility systems often represent decades of investment while supporting evolving missions, aging infrastructure, emerging technologies, and increasing resilience requirements. Every modernization decision must balance technical performance, operational risk, lifecycle costs, and responsible stewardship of public resources.
Those decisions require objective engineering expertise, rigorous economic analysis, and long-term strategic planning.
New Contract Supports the Army Utilities Program and Army Energy Program
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has awarded Guernsey a $48.1 million single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide policy assistance, budget management, program management support, utility system evaluations, engineering economic analysis, utility modernization support, and technical assistance for the Army Utilities Program and Army Energy Program.
The contract supports the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment (DASA IE&E) and the U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) G-4, with work extending through July 2031.
Proven Results Across Army Installations
This award continues a long-standing relationship between Guernsey and the U.S. Army in helping evaluate complex utility and energy infrastructure challenges.
In 2023, the Army recognized Guernsey with an Award of Excellence for energy efficiency and resiliency studies conducted at Fort Wainwright and Fort Greely. Those studies identified recommendations with the potential to avoid more than $3 billion in costs over the next 40 years, while strengthening the resilience and long-term performance of critical installation utility systems if implemented.
Guernsey has also supported specialized Army initiatives ranging from net-zero energy building design prototypes for Kwajalein Atoll to energy resilience studies for multiple installations, providing engineering, technical, and economic expertise for some of the Army’s most complex energy and utility challenges.
Initial Task Order Focuses on Utility Privatization Evaluations
The first task order provides Headquarters, Department of the Army Utilities Program Management support, Army Energy Program support and Utilities program support for three installations, with four additional installations to be identified later as options.
Utility Privatization is a process that evaluates whether long-term ownership and operation of installation utility systems by qualified utility providers can improve reliability, enhance resilience, reduce lifecycle costs, and allow military installations to focus resources on their core mission. Independent engineering, financial, and economic analyses are central to that evaluation.
Under the initial task order, Guernsey will perform contract evaluations, certified economic analyses, and business case analyses that help Army leadership compare alternatives, understand long-term tradeoffs, evaluate risk, and make informed infrastructure investment decisions.
“Infrastructure decisions often appear straightforward until you evaluate decades of operating costs, maintenance requirements, system reliability, resilience, and mission risk,” said Ashish Agrawal, Executive Vice President and Director of Energy & Utility Solutions at Guernsey. “Our responsibility is to bring that long-term perspective into every decision by providing objective engineering and economic analyses that help Army leaders invest wisely and confidently.”
Looking Ahead
As the Army continues modernizing installations across its portfolio, sound utility planning and engineering economic analysis will play an increasingly important role in improving reliability, strengthening resilience, supporting mission readiness, and maximizing the value of public infrastructure investments.
Guernsey is honored to continue supporting the Army Utilities Program and Army Energy Program by helping leaders make informed utility infrastructure decisions that deliver lasting value for Soldiers, Army installations, and the American taxpayer.
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