Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

CITY OF CHICAGO

CITY OF CHICAGO received $335.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+15% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $2.2M. Its largest customer was Social Security Administration ($325.3K). It also received $6.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$335.3K
New awards
2
Sole-source
3.0%
Single offer
97%
UEI
P138LY34M6L6
Other than small businessGovernment entity
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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.

Part of the CITY OF CHICAGO company family: 2 registered entities, $386.8K in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. CITY OF CHICAGOCHICAGO, IL · Family page
    $51.5K

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. -3.4KFY2017
  2. 314.9KFY2019
  3. 251.1KFY2020
  4. 272.8KFY2021
  5. 278.1KFY2022
  6. 283.5KFY2023
  7. 141.7KFY2024
  8. 291.7KFY2025
  9. 335.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Social Security Administration$325.3K97%
    1 awards
  2. Food and Drug Administration$10K3.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$335.3K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cook County, IL$335.3K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $335.3K
  • Sole-source awards3.0%
    US 30% · $10K
  • Single-offer competitions97%
    US 8.7% · $325.3K
  • 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$10K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. CONTRACT FOR INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES FOR COOPERATIVE DISABILITY INVESTIGATIONS (CDI) UNIT IN CHICAGO, IL. CONTRACT INCREMENTALLY FUNDED THROUGH 03/31/2025.$617.1K
    Social Security Administration· Cook County, IL· Professional services· Mar 5, 2025 – Feb 27, 2026· 28321325C00060006
  2. OVERTIME AND FUEL - FDA OCI TASK FORCE WITH CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT$10K
    Food and Drug Administration· Cook County, IL· Professional services· Jun 2, 2026 – Jun 2, 2026· 75F40126C00014

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

CITY OF CHICAGO received $6.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 23 actions (18 new awards), +450% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 16.068 · Cops Hiring Program ($6.3M).

Assistance · FY2026
$6.2M
New awards
18
Actions
23
Since FY2021
$122.5M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 5.6MFY2021
  2. 13.5MFY2022
  3. 10.2MFY2023
  4. 85.8MFY2024
  5. 1.1MFY2025
  6. 6.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$6.1M99%
  2. Direct payments$88.5K1.4%

Top programs

  1. 16.068 · Cops Hiring Program$6.3M100%
  2. 21.016 · Equitable Sharing$88.5K1.4%
  3. 16.710 · Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants-$2,2100.0%
  4. 16.738 · Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program-$125.2K0.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Offices, Boards and Divisions$6.2M100%
    Department of Justice
  2. Departmental Offices$88.5K1.4%
    Department of the Treasury

Largest awards

  1. THE CITY OF CHICAGO WILL BE HOSTING THE 2024 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATING CONVENTION (2024 DNC). DELEGATIONS FROM ALL 50 STATES, AS…$75M
    16.738 · Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program· Office of Justice Programs· Project grant· Jun 24, 2024 – Dec 17, 2025· 15PBJA24GG00028PNCX
  2. THE FY25 COPS HIRING PROGRAM (CHP) PROVIDES FUNDING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO HIRE AND/OR REHIRE ADDITIONAL CAREER LAW ENFORCEMENT…$6.3M
    16.068 · Cops Hiring Program· Offices, Boards and Divisions· Project grant· Oct 10, 2025 – Oct 10, 2025· 15JCOPS25GG00959UHPR
  3. CITY OF CHICAGO'S FY20 BJA OPERATION LEGEND PROJECT$3.4M
    16.738 · Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program· Office of Justice Programs· Project grant· Nov 2, 2020 – Dec 16, 2025· 2020MUBX0908
  4. WHILE STILL PERVASIVE IN SEVERAL SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHICAL SPOTS IN THE CITY, AVAILABLE STATISTICS WILL SHOW THAT GUN-RELATED CRIME IN CHICAGO…$699.8K
    16.738 · Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program· Office of Justice Programs· Project grant· Sep 28, 2022 – Feb 3, 2026· 15PBJA22GG01761JAGP
  5. THE FY24 COPS OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT PROGRAM (TEP) PROVIDES GRANTS TO STATE, LOCAL, TRIBAL, TERRITORIAL, AND OTHER ENTITIES TO…$500K
    16.710 · Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants· Offices, Boards and Divisions· Project grant· Sep 30, 2024 – Apr 7, 2026· 15JCOPS24GG02159TECP
  6. THIS AWARD SUPPORTS THE PURCHASE OF A VR/AR SYSTEM TO ENHANCE CURRENT TRAINING EFFORTS TO SUPPLY OUR OFFICERS WITH REFRESHER TRAINING AFTER…$247K
    16.710 · Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants· Offices, Boards and Divisions· Project grant· Oct 13, 2022 – Apr 15, 2026· 15JCOPS22GG04822PPSE

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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-grants: $812.7K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. STATE OF ILLINOIS$812.7K100%
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $17.9M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $9.7M received
  • FY2023: $542.5K paid out · $55.2K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $109.9K received
  • FY2025: $529.8K paid out · $763.6K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $812.7K 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

4 companies · $1.1M reported

  1. COOK, COUNTY OF$501.5K
    CHICAGO, IL · 1 subaward
  2. NAMI CHICAGO$442.5K
    CHICAGO, IL · 1 subaward
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$100K
    URBANA, IL · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

5 companies · $74.4M reported

  1. ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY$45M
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 8 subawards
  2. CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY$27.5M
    CHICAGO, IL · 7 subawards
  3. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION$1.6M
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 3 subawards

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

  1. DEPARTMENT OF POLICE PUERTO RICO$840K−50% in FY2026
    SAN JUAN, PR · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Investigation and security services
  2. MADISON COUNTY PROSECUTOR$947.4K+9.2% in FY2026
    ANDERSON, IN · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Investigation and security services
  3. HARRIS COUNTY$1.6M+256% in FY2026
    HOUSTON, TX · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Investigation and security 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.