Federal contractor · WASHINGTON, DC

ACTIVATE RESEARCH INC.

ACTIVATE RESEARCH INC. received $2.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (+217% vs FY2025). Since FY2018: $16.6M. Its largest customer was Department of Education ($2.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.5M
New awards
4
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small businessWoman-ownedHUBZone firm
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 77.7KFY2018
  2. 49.3KFY2019
  3. 45KFY2020
  4. 663.7KFY2021
  5. 3.1MFY2022
  6. 4.4MFY2023
  7. 4.9MFY2024
  8. 793.9KFY2025
  9. 2.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Education$2.5M100%
    4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$2.2M86%
  2. Research & development$346.6K14%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$2.5M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

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

Largest awards

  1. EO14042 - STATISTICAL STANDARDS AND DATA CONFIDENTIALITY STAFF CONTRACT$9M
    Department of Education· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Nov 18, 2021 – Jan 21, 2026· 91990022F0006
  2. ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE TO ASSIST WITH DATA COLLECTIONS AND DATA OPERATIONS ACTIVITIES FOR THE INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION DATA SYSTEMS PROGRAM.$1.2M
    Department of Education· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· May 13, 2024 – Jan 16, 2026· 91990024F0329
  3. THIS ORDER IS TO CONDUCT THE TRIO ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REPORT (APR) PARTICIPANT DATA VERIFICATION STUDY.$799.4K
    Department of Education· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 21, 2022 – Aug 17, 2026· 91990022F0044
  4. UPDATE TO PROJECTIONS OF EDUCATION STATISTICS: EXTENDING PROJECTIONS THROUGH 2035$482.1K
    Department of Education· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 91990026F0118

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $161.3K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE$161.3K100%
    DURHAM, NC · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $396.1K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $169.4K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.6M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $538.4K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $532.2K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $161.3K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

3 companies · $3.4M reported

  1. AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES$2.2M
    ARLINGTON, VA · 9 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE$1.1M
    DURHAM, NC · 10 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. WESTED$160.9K
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 1 subaward · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. ANLAR, LLC$13.8M−79% in FY2026
    ARLINGTON, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesEducation · Scientific research and development services
  2. LUX CONSULTING GROUP, INC.$6.9M+66% in FY2026
    SILVER SPRING, MD · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. LPE ASSOCIATES, LLC$14.8M+98% in FY2026
    SILVER SPRING, MD · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.