Over the past few weeks, the number of contract awards for electrical and VDV equipment financed in part through the American Resource and Recovery Act (ARRA) seems to have increased, according to information at www.fedbizopps.gov, the U.S. government website that tracks federal project activity related to ARRA funding. Lighting switchgear upgrades and installations or retrofits to backup power systems at Veterans Administration hospitals, federal courthouses and other offices, national recreation areas and dams and military facilities continue to top the list of contract awards of interest to electrical manufacturers, electrical distributors, electrical contractors and independent manufacturers' reps.

One interesting twist to the federal contract game in recent weeks has been the size of winning bids for the installation of advanced metering systems from Schneider Electric and its Square D subsidiary, both of Palatine, Ill. Since early May, the companies have won more than $6 million in ARRA-funded work at naval facilities in Georgia and California, as well as the Reagan Federal Building/Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa., and the Nealon Federal Building in Scranton, Pa. In addition, an April 23 article in the Dallas Business Journal said Schneider Electric had won “two stimulus-related contracts totaling $41.5 million to increase the energy and water efficiency of city-owned buildings in Houston and other federal buildings throughout Texas.”

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