Federal contractor · UTICA, NY
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND, INC.
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND, INC. received $3.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 19 awards (+12% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $139.5M. Its largest customer was Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ($2.6M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $3.5M
- New awards
- 19
- Sole-source
- 97%
- Single offer
- 1.8%
- UEI
- ZU6AJLMNJBA7
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 11MFY2017
- 7.1MFY2018
- 6.4MFY2019
- 5.9MFY2020
- 87.7MFY2021
- 3.1MFY2022
- 5MFY2023
- 6.8MFY2024
- 3.1MFY2025
- 3.5MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- 2 awards
- Department of Veterans Affairs$787.9K23%2 awards
- Defense Logistics Agency$60.1K1.7%3 awards
- 2 awards
- Department of the Navy$14.2K0.4%6 awards
- 1 awards
- Department of the Army-$2570.0%1 awards
- Federal Emergency Management Agency-$2590.0%1 awards
- Federal Bureau of Investigation-$6,2990.0%1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Professional services$3.2M91%
- Equipment maintenance$188.4K5.4%
- Other equipment & supplies$59K1.7%
- Health & medical$56.6K1.6%
- IT & telecom$8,1150.2%
Where the work was performed
- Oneida County, NY$2.7M77%
- Fayette County, KY$787.9K23%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition99%US 39% · $3.4M
- Sole-source awards97%US 30% · $3.4M
- Single-offer competitions1.8%US 8.7% · $64.2K
- 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
- Department of Transportation · 1 awards
- Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards
- Department of the Navy$14.2KDepartment of Defense · 4 awards
Largest awards
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Sep 20, 2021 – Oct 31, 2025· 693JJ421C000004
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration· Oneida County, NY· Professional services· Sep 21, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026· 693JJ426C000009
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Fayette County, KY· Equipment maintenance· Oct 1, 2023 – Oct 30, 2025· 36C24924C0004
- TELEPHONE OPERATOR SERVICES$599.5KDepartment of Veterans Affairs· Fayette County, KY· Professional services· Jan 1, 2026 – May 26, 2026· 36C24926C0019
- Department of the Army· Morris County, NJ· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 26, 2025 – Dec 9, 2025· W912DS25P0025
- OPTION YEAR FOUR FUNDING DOCUMENT. NITRILE 825 EXAMINATION GLOVES AND LATEX 802 EXAMINATION GLOVES.$68.7KFederal Bureau of Investigation· Oneida County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 12, 2024 – Dec 10, 2025· 15F06725F0000036
- Federal Emergency Management Agency· District of Columbia, DC· Health & medical· Mar 2, 2020 – Jul 16, 2026· 70FB7020F00000037
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Oneida County, NY· Health & medical· Apr 6, 2026 – Apr 6, 2026· 15B11726P00000053
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: $190K (1 subaward)
- Sub-grants: $79.8K (1 subaward)
2 primes
- SUPPLYCORE LLC$190K70%ROCKFORD, IL · 1 subaward
- THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$79.8K30%BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward
By fiscal year
- FY2022: $0 paid out · $472 received
- FY2023: $0 paid out · $129.9K received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $269.8K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 · $400.2K reported
- SUPPLYCORE LLC$190KROCKFORD, IL · 1 subaward
- HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY$129.9KALBANY, NY · 1 subaward
- LAUREL, MD · 1 subaward
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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 10 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- AURORA OF CENTRAL NEW YORK, INC.$2M+5% in FY2026SYRACUSE, NY · 14% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business support services
- CROSS LINK MEDIA LLC$2M−100% in FY2026CARTERVILLE, IL · 14% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business support services
- POSTAL STRATEGY CONSULTING LLC$2.6M−8.5% in FY2026SENECA, SC · 14% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business support services
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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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
- Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI)AI match · 96%
- Lobbying · 2026
- $160K
- 2 reports
- Lobbying · 2025–2026
- $320K
Lobbying by year
- 2025$160K2 reports
- 2026$160K2 reports
Top issues
- Manufacturing4 reports
Who was contacted
Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).
Lobbying firms hired
- Michael Best Strategies LLC$320K4 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.
Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.