Federal contractor · BELLINGHAM, MA

CHILDS ENGINEERING CORPORATION

CHILDS ENGINEERING CORPORATION received $1.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 9 awards (−58% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $27.7M. Its largest customer was U.S. Coast Guard ($1.3M).

Obligations · FY2026: $1.8M
New awards: 9
Sole-source: 0.0%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: ZMGLVGCKMDA3
Parent company: CHILDS ENGINEERING CORPORATION

Small business

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

2.3MFY2017
1.4MFY2018
4.2MFY2019
925.3KFY2020
2.9MFY2021
3.4MFY2022
3.7MFY2023
2.7MFY2024
4.4MFY2025
1.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

U.S. Coast Guard$1.3M70%
7 awards
Department of the Navy$551.9K30%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Construction & real property$1.8M100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition0.0%
US 39% · $0
Sole-source awards0.0%
US 30% · $0
Single-offer competitions0.0%
US 8.7% · $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.

Largest awards

FY24 D5 AND D9 WATERFRONT STRUCTURES INSPECTIONS$1.3M
U.S. Coast Guard· Cuyahoga County, OH· Construction & real property· Dec 3, 2024 – Nov 5, 2025· 70Z08325FCLEV0002
FY23 WATERFRONT INSPECTIONS D7/D8$1.2M
U.S. Coast Guard· Miami-Dade County, FL· Construction & real property· Sep 19, 2023 – Jan 27, 2026· 70Z08223FCEUM0021
FY25 WATERFRONT INSPECTIONS AT UNITED STATES COAST GUARD DISTRICT 7 AND DISTRICT 8 PNUM 26452695$967K
U.S. Coast Guard· Miami-Dade County, FL· Construction & real property· Jan 15, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026· 70Z08226FCEUM0008
A/E DESIGN RECAP WATERFRONT SECTOR DELAWARE BAY$517.1K
U.S. Coast Guard· Philadelphia County, PA· Construction & real property· May 29, 2025 – Apr 20, 2026· 70Z08325FCLEV0031
A/E SERVICES - FY25 DISTRICT 1 CRITICAL AIDS TO NAVIGATION (ATON) STRUCTURE INSPECTIONS, SECTOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND$411.4K
U.S. Coast Guard· Barnstable County, MA· Construction & real property· Aug 15, 2025 – Jan 22, 2026· 70Z0G125FSSNE0003
WATERFRONT FACILITIES INSPECTION AND ASSESSMENT AT MARINE CORPS AIR STATION (MCAS) CHERRY POINT, NC$411.2K
Department of the Navy· Craven County, NC· Construction & real property· Mar 17, 2026 – Mar 17, 2026· N3943026F4003
REPAIR ATON UPPER CHESAPEAKE BAY, AT AIDST TO NAVIGATION TEAM BALTIMORE PER SOW IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 2(D) IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT'S "DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY" COAST EFFICIENCY INITIATIVE FEB 26, 2025.$304.2K
U.S. Coast Guard· Portsmouth city, VA· Construction & real property· Sep 22, 2025 – Aug 20, 2026· 70Z08325FCLEV0048
A-E SERVICES FOR WFI REGION 1 - NSWC CARDEROCK DIVISION, DANIA BEACH, FL$140.7K
Department of the Navy· Broward County, FL· Construction & real property· Jan 30, 2026 – Jan 30, 2026· N3943026F0006

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: $0 (1 subaward)

1 prime

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $114.9K received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $82.1K received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $166.8K received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $51.3K 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

3 companies · $415.1K reported

EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC., PBC$197K
HUNT VALLEY, MD · 3 subawards · Remediation and other waste management services
APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.$111K
ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 1 subaward · Facilities support services
CH2M HILL, INC$107.1K
ENGLEWOOD, CO · 3 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services

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

INNOVATIVE MATERIALS & PROCESSES INC$5.4M
RAPID CITY, SD · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related services
ENGINEERING CONCEPTS, INC$5.6M−66% in FY2026
HONOLULU, HI · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related services
KROS-WISE$5.8M−98% in FY2026
SAN MARCOS, CA · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related 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.

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.