Federal contractor · TALLADEGA, AL

ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND

ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND received $5.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 20 awards (−27% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $40.2M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($4.3M).

Obligations · FY2026: $5.6M
New awards: 20
Sole-source: 97%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: C4DVCRAFVMA4

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

3.5MFY2017
2.6MFY2018
2.3MFY2019
1.6MFY2020
4.7MFY2021
4.1MFY2022
3.4MFY2023
4.8MFY2024
7.7MFY2025
5.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Defense Logistics Agency$4.3M77%
14 awards
Department of the Air Force$1.3M23%
6 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$5.6M100%

Where the work was performed

Talladega County, AL$5.5M99%
Houston County, GA$47.6K0.9%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition97%
US 39% · $5.4M
Sole-source awards97%
US 30% · $5.4M
Single-offer competitions0.0%
US 8.7% · $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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

Defense Logistics Agency$4.1M
Department of Defense · 8 awards
Department of the Air Force$1.3M
Department of Defense · 5 awards

Largest awards

8511689273!NECKTIE,UNISEX$1.7M
Defense Logistics Agency· Talladega County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 29, 2025 – Mar 9, 2026· SPE1C126F0215
8512038189!NECKTIE,UNISEX$1.5M
Defense Logistics Agency· Talladega County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 30, 2026 – Apr 30, 2026· SPE1C126F3711
8511399001!NECKTIE,UNISEX$826.2K
Defense Logistics Agency· Talladega County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· May 23, 2025 – Feb 20, 2026· SPE1C125F4111
THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUIREMENT IS TO: PURCHASE DEPLOYMENT GEAR$760.2K
Department of the Air Force· Talladega County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 13, 2026 – Mar 13, 2026· FA483026P0010
8511788801!NECKTIE,MEN'S$315.6K
Defense Logistics Agency· Talladega County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 3, 2025 – Dec 3, 2025· SPE1C126F1034
THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUIREMENT IS TO: PURCHASE DEPLOYMENT GEAR$251.4K
Department of the Air Force· Talladega County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 24, 2026 – Apr 24, 2026· FA483026P0025
8511717051!MOBILE WORKSTATIONS WITH TA C$219.1K
Defense Logistics Agency· Talladega County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 23, 2025 – Apr 1, 2026· SPE8EJ26F0472
8512048886!KIT BAG,FLYER'S$198K
Defense Logistics Agency· Talladega County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 16, 2026 – Apr 16, 2026· SPE1C126F3787

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: $169K (3 subawards)

1 prime

M1 SUPPORT SERVICES, L.P.$169K100%
WESTLAKE, TX · 3 subawards

By fiscal year

FY2024: $0 paid out · $109.1K received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $877.7K received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $169K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

2 companies · $1.2M reported

M1 SUPPORT SERVICES, L.P.$941.1K
WESTLAKE, TX · 7 subawards · Support activities for air transportation
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$214.8K
BIRMINGHAM, AL · 2 subawards

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 11 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

BROOKWOOD COMPANIES INCORPORATED$8.7M−6.7% in FY2026
NEW YORK, NY · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Cut and sew apparel manufacturing
ELITE PPE LLC$11.5M+47% in FY2026
SANTA ROSA BEACH, FL · 43% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Cut and sew apparel manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing
PENNSYLVANIA APPAREL, L.L.C.$6.5M−47% in FY2026
OLIVE HILL, KY · 36% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Cut and sew apparel manufacturing

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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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

Alabama Institute for Deaf and BlindAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $80K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $280K

Lobbying by year

2023$80K
4 reports
2024$80K
4 reports
2025$80K
4 reports
2026$40K
2 reports

Top issues

Budget and appropriations14 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
U.S. SENATE14 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Crossroads Strategies, LLC$280K
14 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

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 Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 5304 · Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
S. 2587 · Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 reports
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2025–2026
H.R. 5894 · Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.2 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
H.R. 9029 · Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
S. 2624 · Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
S. 4942 · Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 10445 · Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 20251 report
118th Congress · Introduced · 2024
H.R. 2882 · Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 20241 report
118th Congress · Became law · 2024
H.R. 1968 · Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 20251 report
119th Congress · Became law · 2025
H.R. 7148 · Consolidated Appropriations Act, 20261 report
119th Congress · Became law · 2026

9 of 14 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

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

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.

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.