Federal contractor · MASON, OH

CENGAGE LEARNING, INC.

CENGAGE LEARNING, INC. received $650.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 10 awards (−69% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $20.5M. Its largest customer was Department of Defense Education Activity ($492.6K).

Obligations · FY2026: $650.3K
New awards: 10
Sole-source: 17%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: GVF9XNR1HF79
Parent company: CENGAGE LEARNING 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.

4 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $832.5K in FY2026 together.

CENGAGE LEARNING, INC.MASON, OH · Family page
Reported parent$650.3K
CENGAGE LEARNING, INC.INDEPENDENCE, KY
AI name match · 98%$182.2K
CENGAGE LEARNING, INC.MASON, OH
AI name match · 100%$0
GALE GROUP, INC., THEFARMINGTON HILLS, MI
Reported parent$0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

1.1MFY2017
2MFY2018
3.3MFY2019
2.4MFY2020
3MFY2021
2.4MFY2022
1.9MFY2023
1.7MFY2024
2.1MFY2025
650.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of Defense Education Activity$492.6K76%
3 awards
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$106.1K16%
3 awards
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$24.6K3.8%
1 awards
Offices, Boards and Divisions$20.3K3.1%
1 awards
Maritime Administration$9,1421.4%
1 awards
Department of the Army-$2,4900.0%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

IT & telecom$552.5K85%
Professional services$60.7K9.3%
Other equipment & supplies$39.6K6.1%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition17%
US 39% · $112.8K
Sole-source awards17%
US 30% · $112.8K
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

Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$106.1K
Department of the Interior · 2 awards
Maritime Administration$9,142
Department of Transportation · 1 awards

Largest awards

GENERAL PURPOSE DATABASES$1.4M
Department of Defense Education Activity· Alexandria city, VA· IT & telecom· Aug 22, 2024 – Apr 29, 2026· HE125424PE005
6-12 HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS DATABASES$281.8K
Department of Defense Education Activity· Alexandria city, VA· IT & telecom· Sep 25, 2020 – Oct 24, 2025· HE125420P3014
CENGAGE LEARNING LICENSE$125K
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Bernalillo County, NM· IT & telecom· Mar 14, 2024 – Oct 29, 2025· 140A2324P0230
THIS REQUIREMENT WILL PROVIDE PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMP) CERTIFICATION TRAINING AND PROVIDE THE KNOWLEDGE NEEDED TO PASS THE PMP EXAM AND GAIN THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT EDUCATIONAL HOURS REQUIRED.$72.9K
Department of the Army· Warren County, MS· Education & social services· Sep 15, 2025 – May 18, 2026· W912EE25P0036
CENGAGE LEARNING, INC.$70K
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Bernalillo County, NM· IT & telecom· Apr 2, 2026 – Jul 14, 2026· 140A2326P0118
CENGAGE TEXTBOOKS BULK ORDER 2026$36.1K
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Bernalillo County, NM· Professional services· Jun 10, 2026 – Jun 10, 2026· 140A2326P0185
GALE SOFTWARE LICENSES$24.6K
U.S. Customs and Border Protection· Loudoun County, VA· Professional services· Jul 27, 2026 – Jul 27, 2026· 70B04C26F00000592
GALE ACADEMIC ONEFILE AND GALE GENERAL ONEFILE$20.3K
Offices, Boards and Divisions· Warren County, OH· Other equipment & supplies· May 1, 2026 – Jun 1, 2026· 15JL1B26F00000570

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.

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

4 companies · $285.1K reported

L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.$127.7K
GREENVILLE, TX · 2 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$79.8K
GROTON, CT · 2 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$43.6K
MCLEAN, VA · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services

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

HMH EDUCATION COMPANY$3.5M−75% in FY2026
BOSTON, MA · 21% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Education Activity · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishersDefense Education Activity · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishersBureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers+1 more
BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY LLC$4.3M−19% in FY2026
NEW ROCHELLE, NY · 20% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Education Activity · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishersDefense Education Activity · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers
CHILDREN'S HEALTH MARKET, INC.$693.3K−100% in FY2026
WILTON, CT · 12% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Education Activity · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers

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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.

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 CENGAGE LEARNING, INC. (4 recipients).

Matched organizations

CENGAGE LEARNING, INC.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $330K; 6 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $820K; $820K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$160K
6 reports
2024$210K
4 reports
2025$330K
6 reports
2026$120K
2 reports

Top issues

Education14 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES13 reports
U.S. SENATE13 reports
Education - Dept of4 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

MERCHANT MCINTYRE & ASSOCIATES, LLC$60K
2 reports
FGS Global (US) LLC (FKA FGH Holdings LLC)$40K
2 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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 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.

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. 6655 · A Stronger Workforce for America Act5 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
H.R. 6585 · Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act3 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025

7 of 18 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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026.

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.