Throughout FY26, CPS Energy has been steadfast in implementing aggressive procurement targets across the enterprise, ensuring the delivery of contracting opportunities to local, small businesses within our community. Over the course of the fiscal year, CPS Energy invested $1.5 billion dollars via contracted goods and services with more than $880 million (72%) of that spend paid to vendors located here in the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area. In this same timeframe, CPS Energy has spent $509 million dollars with small business, representing over 43% of our total competitive procurement spend.
To further its mission of ensuring access to contract opportunities, CPS Energy has implemented a comprehensive strategy to promote and encourage participation in our procurement process among local and small vendors. Over the last four years, we have increased our participation in various outreach events by more than 196%! Our Supply Chain team has either hosted or attended over 270 separate events this year as we continue to seek out and engage our local and small suppliers to encourage their participation in CPS Energy’s procurement process. We continue to leverage strategic partnerships such as those with the Small Business Development Center, the Center for Government Contracting and our various resource partners and trade groups to speak directly to small business owners concerning supplier registration and procurement needs.
Progressing into our FY27, CPS Energy remains committed to working with elected leaders across all levels of government to best advocate for our local and small supplier in an evolving procurement landscape. Further, CPS Energy continues to collaborate with our peer agencies thru the SupplySA Initiative, as we work to better understand the availability of local, small suppliers in our service area as well as implement best practices to better their access to competitive opportunities. For example, we continue to identify contracts that may have scopes that allows for either debundling or multiple awardees. At the time of this update, CPS Energy has 258 active contract opportunities valued at $3.3 billion dollars that have been debundled, resulting in work awarded to 794 unique suppliers! CPS Energy’s Supply Chain team remains committed to engaging our local, and small vendors through targeted outreach, to ensure contract opportunities are made available to all seeking to do business with our organization and contribute to the success of our community.
