Federal contractor · WASHINGTON, DC

ARTIFACTUAL LLC

ARTIFACTUAL LLC received $270K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Its largest customer was Smithsonian Institution ($270K).

Obligations · FY2026
$270K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small businessWoman-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 270KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Smithsonian Institution$270K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$270K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$270K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $270K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $270K
  • 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

  1. Smithsonian Institution$270K
    Smithsonian Institution · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. ANALYTICAL SERVICES$270K
    Smithsonian Institution· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Jun 9, 2026 – Jun 9, 2026· 33321626P00537831

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. KATHERINE HARDY$262.2K+47% in FY2026
    WASHINGTON, DC · 97% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSmithsonian Institution · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  2. SPRUETH MAGERS LLC$255K−100% in FY2026
    LOS ANGELES, CA · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSmithsonian Institution · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  3. THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, INC.$296.7K
    BOSTON, MA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSmithsonian Institution · Other professional, scientific, and technical 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.