Federal contractor · BOISE, ID

BIOMARK LLC

BIOMARK LLC received $712.6K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 12 awards (−44% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $16.8M. Its largest customer was Bureau of Reclamation ($351K).

Obligations · FY2026
$712.6K
New awards
12
Sole-source
95%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
MERCK & CO., INC.
Other than small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC company family: 2 registered entities, $1.2M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLCRAHWAY, NJ · Family page
    $445.3K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.4MFY2017
  2. 2.1MFY2018
  3. 1.9MFY2019
  4. 1.9MFY2020
  5. 2MFY2021
  6. 2.4MFY2022
  7. 2.4MFY2023
  8. 751.8KFY2024
  9. 1.3MFY2025
  10. 712.6KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Bureau of Reclamation$351K49%
    4 awards
  2. U.S. Geological Survey$219K31%
    3 awards
  3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$87.5K12%
    3 awards
  4. Rural Housing Service$37K5.2%
    1 awards
  5. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$18.1K2.5%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$391.7K55%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$177.4K25%
  3. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$122.6K17%
  4. Equipment maintenance$20.9K2.9%

Where the work was performed

  1. Salt Lake County, UT$256.4K36%
  2. Skamania County, WA$137.5K19%
  3. Klamath County, OR$94.6K13%
  4. Coconino County, AZ$81.5K11%
  5. Washington County, MS$37K5.2%
  6. Clearwater County, ID$35.6K5.0%
  7. Clackamas County, OR$26K3.6%
  8. Shasta County, CA$26K3.6%
  9. Ada County, ID$18.1K2.5%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition95%
    US 39% · $675.6K
  • Sole-source awards95%
    US 30% · $675.6K
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Bureau of Reclamation$351K
    Department of the Interior · 3 awards
  2. U.S. Geological Survey$219K
    Department of the Interior · 3 awards
  3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$87.5K
    Department of the Interior · 3 awards
  4. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$18.1K
    Department of Commerce · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. PASSIVE INTEGRATED TRANSPONDER (PIT) TAG ANTENNAS AND RELATED EQUIPMENT TO MONITOR THE MOVEMENT AND BEHAVIOR OF FISH AND OTHER TAGGED SPECIES, INCLUDING ENDANGERED SPECIES, THROUGHOUT THE COLORADO AND COLUMBIA RIVER BASINS.$256.4K
    Bureau of Reclamation· Salt Lake County, UT· IT & telecom· Sep 2, 2026 – Sep 2, 2026· 140R4026P0097
  2. PIT TAG ANTENNAS$122.6K
    U.S. Geological Survey· Skamania County, WA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 16, 2026 – Mar 16, 2026· 140G0326P0069
  3. FISH MONITORING EQUIPMENT$91K
    Bureau of Reclamation· Salt Lake County, UT· IT & telecom· Sep 16, 2025 – Aug 7, 2026· 140R4025P0100
  4. USGS REQUIRES PRELOADED 12MM PIT TAGS, APT12, FOR FISH POPULATION MONITORING SUPPORTING THE GLEN CANYON DAM ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, LTEMP REQUIREMENTS, AND BIOLOGICAL OPINION-RELATED MONITORING.$81.5K
    U.S. Geological Survey· Coconino County, AZ· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 10, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026· 140G0326P0250
  5. RATIFICATION FOR BIOMARK TASK ORDER - ACTUAL ITEM RECEIVED$73.7K
    Bureau of Reclamation· Klamath County, OR· IT & telecom· Mar 12, 2026 – Mar 12, 2026· 140R2026P0003
  6. PASSIVE INTEGRATED TRANSPONDER (PIT) TAGS, 12 MM IN LENGTH AND APPROXIMATELY 2 MM IN DIAMETER, MUST CONTAIN A HEXADECIMAL CODE THAT IS READ BY BIOMARK PIT TAG READERS. USDA ARS-REE SEA WARMWATER AQUACULTURE RESEARCH.$37K
    Rural Housing Service· Washington County, MS· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 12SAD226C0006
  7. ID FWS IDAHO FISHERIES PIT TAG ARRAY$35.6K
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service· Clearwater County, ID· IT & telecom· Aug 11, 2026 – Aug 11, 2026· 140F1G26P0059
  8. OR EAGLE CRK NFH FISH COUNTER$26K
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service· Clackamas County, OR· IT & telecom· Jul 27, 2026 – Jul 27, 2026· 140F1G26P0027

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $59.6K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $623.9K 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

5 companies · $13.5M reported

  1. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$8M
    LAUREL, MD · 1 subaward
  2. STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES$3.4M
    MADISON, WI · 1 subaward
  3. SPECIES CONSERVATION, OFFICE OF$1.6M
    BOISE, ID · 5 subawards

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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

  1. ELUSYS THERAPEUTICS INC$123.9M−100% in FY2026
    PARSIPPANY, NJ · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffice of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing
  2. PHLOW CORP.$204.8M+1,158% in FY2026
    RICHMOND, VA · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffice of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing
  3. PARTNER THERAPEUTICS, INC.$124.5M+28% in FY2026
    LEXINGTON, MA · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffice of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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.

Across the company family of MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • MERCK & CO., INC.AI match · 100%
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$11M
48 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$36.6M
$36.6M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$434K
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$10M
    43 reports
  2. 2024$9.2M
    41 reports
  3. 2025$11M
    48 reports
  4. 2026$6.4M
    22 reports

Top issues

  1. Medicare and Medicaid122 reports
  2. Health issues102 reports
  3. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code58 reports
  4. Trade (domestic and foreign)38 reports
  5. Budget and appropriations14 reports
  6. Copyright, patent and trademark14 reports
  7. Pharmacy9 reports
  8. Animals6 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES122 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE119 reports
  3. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)11 reports
  4. Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)10 reports
  5. Executive Office of the President (EOP)10 reports
  6. White House Office9 reports
  7. Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)7 reports
  8. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)6 reports
  9. Office of Management & Budget (OMB)6 reports
  10. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)3 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Tiber Creek Group$700K
    14 reports
  2. Williams and Jensen, PLLC$700K
    14 reports
  3. Avenue Solutions$700K
    14 reports
  4. W Strategies, LLC$700K
    14 reports
  5. Tiber Creek Health Strategies, Inc.$700K
    14 reports
  6. Crossroads Strategies, LLC$560K
    14 reports
  7. Todd Strategy Group$480K
    14 reports
  8. The Nickles Group, LLC$340K
    6 reports

14 firms in all. Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$281.5K65%
  2. Democratic$152.5K35%

PACs sponsored

  • MERCK & CO., INC., EMPLOYEES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (MERCK PAC)$1.3M raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.