June 2, 2022
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Command Holdings
June 2, 2022
The CeLeen Group, a Pequot Company, was selected as the Protégé of the Year by the U.S. Department of Energy. An information technology firm the Celeen Group is is a tribally-owned 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business based in Perryville, Missouri. As a protégé to Sandia National Labs, the Celeen Group worked closely with Sandia National Labs business development specialists and is now one of Sandia’s top eight small-business information-technology suppliers that support the Informational Engineering group.
The annual Small Business Awards Program recognizes the outstanding performance of people and organizations that promote and expand DOE’s partnerships with small businesses to help advance the department’s mission. The awards focused on achievements during fiscal year 2021.
The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization annual awards program is part of DOE’s effort to continue growing its engagement with small businesses to further missions. As part of that program, Sandia seeks opportunities to work with small disadvantaged, service-disabled veteran-owned, historically underutilized business zones, or HUBZones, and women-owned small business.
