Leidos, Inc. has received $1,018,603,974 in total obligations to date under a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for research support services, according to federal spending records published on USAspending.gov.

The contract, identified by award number 89243318CFE000003, was awarded through DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The contract's base and all-options value is listed at $1.2 billion, with a period of performance running from December 31, 2018 through December 30, 2028. Total outlays under the award have reached approximately $775 million to date, and subcontracted work has totaled more than $1.37 billion, per federal disbursement data.

The award falls under the broad heading "Research Support Services (RSS)," a designation federal contracting officers use for task orders covering scientific, technical, engineering and administrative support to DOE's national laboratory system. NETL, headquartered in Pittsburgh with additional sites in Morgantown, West Virginia, and Albany, Oregon, conducts research on fossil energy, carbon management and related technologies, and relies on large-scale support contracts like this one to staff much of its day-to-day technical and operational work.

For government contractors, the award underscores the continued reliance of DOE's national laboratory complex on long-duration, high-value support services vehicles rather than smaller, more frequently recompeted contracts. A decade-long period of performance gives incumbents like Leidos sustained visibility into DOE's technical priorities and a durable revenue base, while limiting near-term recompete opportunities for competitors. The scale of the obligated amount, over $1 billion committed against a $1.2 billion ceiling, also illustrates how heavily DOE has drawn down the contract's value roughly two-thirds of the way through its period of performance.

Source: USAspending