Federal contractor · WILMINGTON, MA

CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES, INC.

CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES, INC. received $53.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 67 awards (−24% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $526.2M. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($52.9M).

Obligations · FY2026
$53.6M
New awards
67
Sole-source
1.4%
Single offer
11%
UEI
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Parent company
CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, 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.

3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $53.7M in FY2026 together.

  1. CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES, INC.WILMINGTON, MA · Family page
    $53.6M
  2. CHARLES RIVER DISCOVERY RESEARCH SERVICES UK LIMITEDSAFFRON WALDEN, GBR
    $38.8K
  3. CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES CELL SOLUTIONS, INC.NORTHRIDGE, CA
    -$31.00

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 24.6MFY2017
  2. 40MFY2018
  3. 54.5MFY2019
  4. 57.5MFY2020
  5. 54.4MFY2021
  6. 60.9MFY2022
  7. 45.5MFY2023
  8. 64.8MFY2024
  9. 70.3MFY2025
  10. 53.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institutes of Health$52.9M99%
    44 awards
  2. Food and Drug Administration$329.2K0.6%
    5 awards
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs$287.6K0.5%
    14 awards
  4. Defense Health Agency$40.5K0.1%
    3 awards
  5. Department of the Navy$32.6K0.1%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$48.2M90%
  2. Research & development$5M9.3%
  3. Other equipment & supplies$400.2K0.7%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, MD$42.1M79%
  2. Middlesex County, MA$11.3M21%
  3. Hillsborough County, FL$207.3K0.4%
  4. Suffolk County, MA$51.6K0.1%
  5. Orange County, CA$21.3K0.0%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition12%
    US 39% · $6.5M
  • Sole-source awards1.4%
    US 30% · $736.3K
  • Single-offer competitions11%
    US 8.7% · $5.8M
  • 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. Food and Drug Administration$307.9K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards
  2. National Institutes of Health$221K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 4 awards
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs$207.5K
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 3 awards

Largest awards

  1. MANAGEMENT, OPERATION, PROFESSIONAL, AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR NIAID ANIMAL CARE FACILITIES$112M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Apr 13, 2018 – Aug 31, 2026· 75N93018C00014
  2. MANAGEMENT, OPERATION, PROFESSIONAL, TECHNICAL AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR NIAID ANIMAL CARE FACILITIES$95.8M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Mar 8, 2024 – Mar 13, 2026· 75N93024C00003
  3. TASK ORDER SOLICITATION NUMBER: LARC-2025-NIA-0018, TITLED "ANIMAL CARE SERVICES FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING". REQUISITION NUMBER: 7277259.$9.8M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Sep 3, 2025 – Sep 3, 2026· 75N98025F00011
  4. TASK ORDER SOLICITATION NUMBER: LARC-2025-DVR-0008. TASK ORDER NUMBER: 75N98025F00012. PARENT IDIQ CONTRACT NUMBER: 75N98019D00042.$8.6M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Sep 8, 2025 – May 14, 2026· 75N98025F00012
  5. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH), NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE (NINDS), ANIMAL CARE AND RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES LARC-2025-NINDS-0010$5.3M
    National Institutes of Health· Middlesex County, MA· Professional services· Feb 28, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026· 75N98026F00002
  6. PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FIVE VACCINE CANDIDATES$5.2M
    National Institutes of Health· Middlesex County, MA· Research & development· Sep 29, 2025 – Sep 10, 2026· 75N93025F00001
  7. 25-004798 - FUNDING FOR SIX (6)-MONTH EXTENSION OF OPTION YEAR #4 UNDER EXISTING CONTRACT #75N98019D00042 IN ORDER TO PROVIDE REQUIRED CARE FOR LABORATORY ANIMALS INVOLVED IN ONGOING RESEARCH EXPERIMENTS THAT B$5.1M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Mar 13, 2025 – Aug 24, 2026· 75N98025F00008
  8. LINE ITEM #1:PNRC BUILDING 35 ANIMAL CARE - TIME AND MATERIALS$3.4M
    National Institutes of Health· Middlesex County, MA· Professional services· Dec 13, 2024 – Sep 28, 2026· 75N98025F00001

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: $1.2M (8 subawards)

3 primes

  1. RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE$577.8K50%
    DURHAM, NC · 2 subawards
  2. BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$432.9K38%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 4 subawards
  3. SRI INTERNATIONAL$139.6K12%
    MENLO PARK, CA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.7M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $354.5K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.3M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $2.1M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.2M 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

12 companies · $7.6M reported

  1. RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE$2.3M
    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC · 7 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. EMERGENT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GAITHERSBURG INC.$1.4M
    GAITHERSBURG, MD · 1 subaward
  3. SRI INTERNATIONAL$1.3M
    MENLO PARK, CA · 9 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 18 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. JS TECHNOLOGY, INC$59.2M−27% in FY2026
    FAIRFAX STATION, VA · 29% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  2. PRIORITY ONE SERVICES, INC.$79.2M+13% in FY2026
    ALEXANDRIA, VA · 29% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  3. ALPHA GENESIS INC$55.7M+36% in FY2026
    YEMASSEE, SC · 21% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Other animal productionNational Institutes of Health · Other professional, scientific, and technical servicesNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development services

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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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES, INC. (3 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Charles River LaboratoriesAI match · 100%
  • CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL INCAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$360K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$1.4M

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$570K
    6 reports
  2. 2024$360K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$360K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$140K
    3 reports

Top issues

  1. Pharmacy14 reports
  2. Animals12 reports
  3. Health issues4 reports
  4. Food industry (safety, labeling)2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES16 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE16 reports
  3. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)12 reports
  4. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)9 reports
  5. State - Dept of (DOS)7 reports
  6. Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)6 reports
  7. Natl Security Council (NSC)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. BGR Government Affairs$1.2M
    13 reports
  2. Capitol Hill Consulting Group$140K
    2 reports
  3. McGuireWoods Consulting (A Subsidiary of McGuireWoods LLP)$60K
    2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PACs sponsored

  • CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL INC PAC$0 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.