FY 2026 DOE Small Business Accomplishments
 FY 2026 was another excellent year for DOE small business achievement. We reached new milestones in advancing the DOE Small Business Strategic Plan, ensuring small businesses continue to drive innovation and solutions across DOE’s missions. Below are notable accomplishments in the Four Strategic Plan Pillars:
1. Modernizing Industry Engagement
As part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Energy, Technology, and Environmental Business Association (ETEBA), we partnered with and hosted several high-impact events, reaching over 1000 small businesses. Additionally, we rebranded our signature small business event, the DOE Small Business Forum & Expo, to streamline planning efforts, reduce costs to the taxpayer, and expand industry outreach. We look forward to bringing the Forum & Expo back next June in partnership with ETEBA.
2. Increase Data Driven Innovation to Advance Small Business Procurement
We published a new and improved Small Business Program Manager (SBPM) Directory, leveraging emerging technologies and optimizing the content for industry utility. The searchable and downloadable listing of agencywide points of contact for help doing business with DOE is now more user-friendly with additional small business resources.
3. Expand the American Energy Small Business Industrial Base
We focused our efforts under this pillar on increasing visibility into the DOE Mentor-Protégé Program to identify engagement opportunities and plan for potential timely small business partnerships to support Agency missions. We also streamlined access to program resources to increase consistency across participants.
4. Sustain Strong Statutory Performance
In sustaining DOE’s excellent track record of meeting statutory small business program requirements and promoting advocacy in the evolving procurement environment, the Department earned its tenth “A” grade from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for the most recent Agency Scorecard achievement. DOE also continues to explore ways to further enhance mission delivery and taxpayer value.
DOE Small Business Success Story
 We are excited to share a recent U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) small business success story. Savannah River Mission Completion (SRMC) recently graduated two local, small businesses protégés from its Mentor-Protégé Program.
Based on the DOE Mentor-Protégé Program, SRMC’s Mentor-Protégé Program, is an initiative that guides small business suppliers through the federal contracting process, teaching them how to successfully compete and work with SRMC at the DOE Savannah River Site (SRS) to support Agency missions.
Columbia County Concrete is a local, woman-owned small business that supports SRMC projects at the Tank Farms, Saltstone Disposal Unit construction, and general concrete needs. Prior to the relationship with Columbia County Concrete, similar services were a large business function.
WesWorks is also a local, woman-owned small business that offers project controls and estimating services. As SRMC is an end-state prime contract, WesWorks helped establish systems to support this type of contract and task order-based work.
Ashley Hannah, SRMC’s Small Business Program Manager, praised the efforts of both businesses in completing the Mentor-Protégé Program.
“As a federal contractor with a technically challenging mission and specialized scope of work, it can be difficult for small businesses to know how to work with SRMC,” Hannah said. “The Mentor Protégé Program aims to bridge that gap to help teach businesses how to navigate working with SRMC and the federal contracting space. We’re happy to add two more graduates to our roster.”
SRMC continues to support two firms as protégés in the Program: DBD, Inc., a small business; and InfoTech NorthStar, a woman-owned, small disadvantaged business.
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