Federal contractor · SAINT CLOUD, MN

CENTRAL MCGOWAN INC

CENTRAL MCGOWAN INC received $489.1K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 20 awards (+21% vs FY2025). Since FY2022: $2.1M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($422K).

Obligations · FY2026
$489.1K
New awards
20
Sole-source
3.5%
Single offer
7.4%
UEI
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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.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $489.1K in FY2026 together.

  1. CENTRAL MCGOWAN INCSAINT CLOUD, MN · Family page
    $489.1K
  2. CENTRAL-MCGOWAN, INC.LITTLE FALLS, MN
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 12KFY2022
  2. 838KFY2023
  3. 371.5KFY2024
  4. 405.2KFY2025
  5. 489.1KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$422K86%
    17 awards
  2. Indian Health Service$53.4K11%
    2 awards
  3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$13.6K2.8%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$520.9K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Stearns County, MN$453.9K93%
  2. Beltrami County, MN$36.4K7.4%
  3. Cass County, MN$17K3.5%
  4. Carver County, MN$13.6K2.8%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition11%
    US 39% · $53.4K
  • Sole-source awards3.5%
    US 30% · $17K
  • Single-offer competitions7.4%
    US 8.8% · $36.4K
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. VISN BULK OXYGEN 100122-093027$135.2K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Stearns County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· 36C26326N0096
  2. VISN BULK OXYGEN 100122-093027$126.7K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Stearns County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· 36C26326N0097
  3. DELIVERY OF MEDICAL OXYGEN AND COMPRESSED AIR (MEDICAL GASES) BASE YEAR$125.4K
    Indian Health Service· Beltrami County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 14, 2023 – Apr 29, 2026· 75H70523P00047
  4. VISN BULK OXYGEN 100122-093027$92.2K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Stearns County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· 36C26326N0106
  5. VISN BULK OXYGEN 100122-093027$88K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Stearns County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· 36C26326N0084
  6. VISN BULK OXYGEN 100122-093027$75.6K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Stearns County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 1, 2024 – Nov 26, 2025· 36C26325N00402
  7. VISN BULK OXYGEN 100122-093027$68.6K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Stearns County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· 36C26326N0151
  8. VISN BULK OXYGEN 100122-093027$63.5K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Stearns County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· 36C26326N0110

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

  1. THE WARWICK SUPPLY AND EQUIPMENT CO., INC.$1.2M−89% in FY2026
    HUNT VALLEY, MD · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Basic chemical manufacturing
  2. GENERAL DISTRIBUTING CO$839K+52% in FY2026
    GREAT FALLS, MT · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Basic chemical manufacturingIndian Health Service · Basic chemical manufacturing
  3. MESSER GAS PUERTO RICO INC$592.3K−5.3% in FY2026
    CATANO, PR · 46% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Basic chemical 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.