U.S. Department of Energy market intelligence, built for better pursuit decisions.
A researched and verified view of the DOE market, designed to shorten the research cycle, clarify where your company fits, and help you focus resources on the right pursuits.
$299 · One-time purchase
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29 awarding offices · 66 DOE sites · 37 operating contracts mapped
Who this is for.
Owners, presidents, and business development leaders deciding where a small business should spend its time inside the DOE market.
You may be new to DOE. You may already hold federal contracts. You may subcontract at a laboratory or site and want to understand the direct federal market. Or you may already be watching opportunities and still be unsure which offices, sites, and pursuits deserve your attention.
The question underneath all of those is the same: where does your company fit, who actually buys what you sell, and which opportunities are worth pursuing?
The research is done.
You can research DOE yourself. That's how this Playbook was built.
The award records are public. The regulations are public. So are the forecasts, the site information, the contract records, the supplier portals, and the procurement systems.
The work is finding the right information, checking whether it is current, reconciling the pieces that do not line up, and determining what any of it means for your company.
The question is whether that's where you want to spend your time.
- Federal award records
- Forecasts and procurement systems
- Regulations and DOE deviations
- 29 awarding offices
- Site operators and supplier portals
- Contract dates and recompetes
One researched and verified view of the market.
Research you can trace back to the source.
- Built from the underlying data. Spending figures, shares, percentages, and award counts were rebuilt from federal award data for the periods stated.
- Verified, not assumed. Rules, supplier paths, sites, operators, and contract information were checked against current primary sources.
- Clear about what the record supports. When public information is incomplete or conflicting, the Playbook identifies what the record supports rather than filling the gap with an unsupported estimate.
The 2026 FAR overhaul reorganized and renumbered Part 19, which contains the federal small business rules. DOE applies the revised structure through a class deviation. The FAR as officially published still carries the previous section numbers.
The same rule appears under one number in the published FAR and under another at DOE. A business can look up the right subject in the wrong version and get an answer that appears authoritative but is not the rule DOE is using.
Finding an answer is not the same as verifying it.
Where the record could not support a defensible figure, the Playbook says so. DOE's public subcontract dataset is from FY2017, so the Playbook does not manufacture a current subcontracting market size from it.
What's in it.
- 29 awarding offices, profiled by what they buy and how they buy it, so you can tell which ones are worth your attention and which are spending money you cannot reach.
- 66 DOE sites, with the operator running each one and the route suppliers use to reach it.
- 37 site operating contracts, including which have working supplier portals and which do not. Fifteen of them are within 24 months of their end date.
- The FES Pursuit Scorecard, a structured way to decide whether an opportunity deserves your resources before you spend them.
- Five reference appendices, including a site directory, a state-by-state opportunity index, a contract expiration and recompete calendar, and a source and verification register.
Every figure in the Playbook traces to a primary source. You can check the work before you buy it.
See the research before you buy it.
Start with Chapter 0 to see how the Playbook was built, what was verified, and what the public record can and cannot support. Then read selected pages from across the book.
The DOE Small Business Playbook
One-time purchase
- The complete digital Playbook. 168 pages that map where DOE's money actually goes, who controls it, how to reach it directly or through the contractors running its sites, and how to tell a real opportunity from an expensive distraction.
- 12 months of quarterly verified updates. DOE reorganizes, contracts change hands, supplier portals move. For 12 months you receive quarterly editions that re-check the information most likely to have shifted underneath you.
- 14-day money-back guarantee
No subscription. No recurring charge.
Review it for yourself.
Read the Playbook. Use the research. Work through the market data, the site intelligence, and the pursuit framework.
If it doesn't give you a useful basis for evaluating and pursuing the DOE market, contact us within 14 days for a refund.