Federal contractor · HOUSTON, TX

CRITERION RESEARCH, LLC

CRITERION RESEARCH, LLC received $81.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Its largest customer was Department of Energy ($81.5K).

Obligations · FY2026
$81.5K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 81.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Energy$81.5K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$81.5K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$81.5K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $81.5K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $81.5K
  • 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 Energy$81.5K
    Department of Energy · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. DATA SUBSCRIPTION LICENSES AND ACCESS TO PROPRIETARY MAPPING ANALYTICS PLATFORM, AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) DATA STREAMING$81.5K
    Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Apr 23, 2026 – Apr 23, 2026· 89303026PEI000128

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. GRID STATUS INC$60K
    HIGHLAND PARK, IL · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Data processing, hosting, and related services
  2. RARESTEP, INC.$264.9K−3.6% in FY2026
    BIRMINGHAM, AL · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Data processing, hosting, and related services
  3. ZEN INNOVATIONS AG$308.7K−44% in FY2026
    KEHRSATZ, CHE · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Data processing, hosting, 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 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.