Department of Energy award to JOHNSON CONTROLS GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS, LLC: ESPC FOR THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
Rationale
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory ESPC (Energy Savings Performance Contract) is a $75.7M Department of Energy award to Johnson Controls for facility-wide energy infrastructure upgrades across a federally-secured campus. ESPC projects typically involve HVAC retrofits, lighting overhauls, and building-envelope work that generate extended construction footprints, equipment staging areas, and after-hours contractor access across multiple buildings. The distributed work-zone pattern and the classified-site perimeter context create surveillance-camera-array and vehicle-monitoring opportunities, particularly for contractor-badging verification and multi-shift equipment protection during the performance period. The award appears in USAspending federal contract records without a posted date, which suggests an already-executed contract potentially in early mobilization. ESPC projects on this scale run 18-36 months from award to substantial completion, meaning procurement for site-security augmentation may already be underway or closing soon. The timing is post-award with an unknown mobilization lag, a third-tier signal, but the federal-site context and the distributed scope mean security-line-item decisions may still be in play if the GC has not yet locked subcontractors. Nashville branch sits 29 miles from Oak Ridge, well inside the 300-mile coverage radius. The recommended first move is to identify Johnson Controls' project manager or the DOE's Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) overseeing the ESPC and ask whether contractor-access monitoring or equipment-yard surveillance is already scoped. No warm-customer path exists in the region. Lead with mobile-tower availability for staging-area coverage and camera-array integration for multi-building contractor flow.
Project Facts
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passed · all 4 checksverified on 2 of 4 — null-coordinate project, geographic checks skipped
Source Record
Award details (usaspending)
View on usaspending.gov ↗- Recipient
- JOHNSON CONTROLS GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS, LLC
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Award ID
- DEAD0508OR23367
- Place of perf.
- TN
Activity timeline
- Ranked · score 65Saw the $75.7M Oak Ridge ESPC award to Johnson Controls. Nashville branch covers the site at 29 miles, worth a quick call on contractor-access monitoring and staging-area tower coverage before the security sub locks?2026-05-02 09:01 · projects
- Verifiedverified on 2 of 4 — null-coordinate project, geographic checks skipped2026-05-02 09:01 · projects
- Project ingestedSource: usaspending2026-04-29 00:04 · projects