Federal contractor · CARBONDALE, CO

CHALLENGE AMERICA

CHALLENGE AMERICA received $70K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−87% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $1.7M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($70K).

Obligations · FY2026
$70K
New awards
2
Sole-source
14%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 150KFY2020
  2. 130.6KFY2021
  3. 260KFY2022
  4. 557KFY2024
  5. 557KFY2025
  6. 70KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$70K100%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Health & medical$70K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Los Angeles County, CA$60K86%
  2. Pitkin County, CO$10K14%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition14%
    US 39% · $10K
  • Sole-source awards14%
    US 30% · $10K
  • 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. Department of Veterans Affairs$10K
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. MUSIC THERAPY SUD$60K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Los Angeles County, CA· Health & medical· Jun 15, 2026 – Jun 15, 2026· 36C26226P1006
  2. VIRTUAL MUSIC THERAPY$10K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Pitkin County, CO· Health & medical· Jul 22, 2026 – Jul 22, 2026· 36C24726P0692

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

  1. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION$1.9M+7% in FY2026
    WASHINGTON, DC · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business, professional, labor, political, and similar organizations
  2. AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION, INC.$794K−26% in FY2026
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 61% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business, professional, labor, political, and similar organizations
  3. ACADEMY HEALTH$2.6M+106% in FY2026
    WASHINGTON, DC · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business, professional, labor, political, and similar organizations

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.