Federal sub-agency · Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Maritime Commission obligated $5.6M on federal contracts in FY2026 across 66 contract actions (+8.9% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was METAPHASE CONSULTING LLC ($1.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$5.6M
Actions
66
New awards: 12
Sole-source
5.6%
Small business
81%
Open in the contracts explorerRelationship graphFederal contracts

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.8MFY2017
  2. 2.7MFY2018
  3. 3.2MFY2019
  4. 2.3MFY2020
  5. 3.4MFY2021
  6. 4.9MFY2022
  7. 4.4MFY2023
  8. 6.5MFY2024
  9. 5.1MFY2025
  10. 5.6MFY2026

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. METAPHASE CONSULTING LLC$1.6M29%
  2. COUNTERTRADE PRODUCTS, INC.$784.9K14%
  3. NIRA INC$445.8K8.0%
  4. LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.$435.3K7.8%
  5. PITECH SOLUTIONS INC$409.2K7.3%
  6. K.L. SCOTT & ASSOCIATES LLC$397.4K7.1%
  7. ADVANCED COMPUTER CONCEPTS, INC.$367.1K6.6%
  8. IHS GLOBAL INC$192.7K3.4%
  9. STERLING COMPUTERS CORPORATION$188.9K3.4%
  10. KOI COMPUTERS, INC.$153.4K2.7%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$4.9M88%
  2. Professional services$601.4K11%
  3. Education & social services$40.4K0.7%
  4. Equipment maintenance$21.1K0.4%
  5. Other equipment & supplies$14.2K0.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia$5.6M100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition17%
    US 39% · $965.4K
  • Sole-source awards5.6%
    US 30% · $315.7K
  • Single-offer competitions12%
    US 8.7% · $649.7K
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0
  • Year-end rush33%
    US 6.0% · $1.8M
  • Undefinitized contracts0.0%
    US 5.0% · -$104
  • Time-and-materials pricing4.4%
    US 4.2% · $245.1K

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Offices with the most sole-source money

  1. FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION$315.7K5.6%

Largest awards

  1. CONTRACT TO MODERNIZE IT APPLICATIONS$5.4M
    METAPHASE CONSULTING LLC· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Sep 30, 2024 – Jul 30, 2026· 65310224F00018
  2. EIS VOICE AND DATA TRANSITION (BASE YEAR) EIS VOICE AND DATA FOR THE OUT YEARS$2.9M
    LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· May 28, 2021 – Aug 25, 2026· 65310221F00006
  3. MICROSOFT UNIFIED SUPPORT CONTRACT$2.4M
    COUNTERTRADE PRODUCTS, INC.· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Sep 30, 2024 – Jul 31, 2026· 65310224F00020
  4. AZURE TENANT$1M
    SHI INTERNATIONAL CORP· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Sep 30, 2021 – Sep 29, 2026· 65310221F00018
  5. PROCESS WORKFLOW AUTOMATION AND DATA LAKE SERVICES$995.2K
    NIRA INC· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Sep 29, 2025 – Sep 23, 2026· 65310225F00024
  6. DATA LAKE PROOF OF CONCEPT$614.8K
    CORMAC CORPORATION· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Sep 27, 2023 – Apr 13, 2026· 65310223F00022
  7. STUDY OF CHASSIS POOL BEST PRACTICES, MANDATED BY THE OCEAN SHIPPING REFORM ACT OF 2022$499.9K
    NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 23, 2022 – Mar 18, 2026· 65310222C00003
  8. TO OBTAIN AN ONLINE, WEB BASED, SERVICE THAT PROVIDES IMPORT/EXPORT TRADE DATA IN STATISTICAL FORMAT.$438.4K
    DESCARTES SYSTEMS USA LLC· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Sep 30, 2021 – Jun 5, 2026· 65310221C00001

Who lobbies this agency

Organizations whose quarterly lobbying reports list this agency as contacted, ranked by the reports' spending. A report's amount covers all its issues and every agency it lists; reports do not split it.

Lobbying in 2026
$50.3M
Clients
47
Reports
88

The whole amount of every report that lists this agency.

Organizations lobbying it, 2026

  1. Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.$36.7M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign), Environment and Superfund
  2. TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (TMA)$3.2M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign), Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code
  3. AMERICAN FOREST & PAPER ASSOCIATION$1.3M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign), Environment and Superfund
  4. RETAIL INDUSTRY LEADERS ASSOCIATION$810K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign), Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code
  5. American Apparel & Footwear Association$737.6K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign), Environment and Superfund
  6. NATIONAL MILK PRODUCERS FEDERATION$620.9K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign), Environment and Superfund
  7. MOTOR & EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION$480K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign), Energy and nuclear
  8. INTERNATIONAL DAIRY FOODS ASSOCIATION$460K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Trade (domestic and foreign), Environment and Superfund, Budget and appropriations
  9. AMERICAN SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION$445.6K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign), Environment and Superfund
  10. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF FARMER COOPERATIVES$420K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign), Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code
  11. Carnival Corporation (FKA Carnival North America LLC)$420K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Marine, maritime, boating and fisheries, Environment and Superfund, Homeland security
  12. SSA MARINE INC.$390K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Trade (domestic and foreign), Marine, maritime, boating and fisheries, Foreign relations
  13. LAKE CARRIERS ASSOCIATION$380K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Trade (domestic and foreign), Marine, maritime, boating and fisheries, Budget and appropriations
  14. MAERSK AGENCY U.S.A., INC.AI match · 96%$360K
    No FY2026 contracts in its family · Transportation
  15. MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING COMPANY (USA) INC.AI match · 100%$320K
    No FY2026 contracts in its family · Transportation, Trade (domestic and foreign)

1 more clients ($80K) are counted but not named: their names may be a person's.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Committees that oversee and fund it

Congressional committees whose jurisdiction includes this agency, and the appropriations subcommittees that write its spending bill (Analisa's reading of the House and Senate rules; committees share jurisdiction). Leaders as currently published.

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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.