Federal contractor · SAINT PAUL, MN

ECOLAB INC

ECOLAB INC received $1.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 699 awards (−29% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $22.5M. Its largest customer was Federal Acquisition Service ($761.9K).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.8M
New awards
699
Sole-source
18%
Single offer
69%
UEI
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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 NALCO COMPANY LLC company family: 11 registered entities, $4.9M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. NALCO COMPANY LLCNAPERVILLE, IL · Family page
    $2.3M
  2. BARCLAY WATER MANAGEMENT, INC.NEWTON, MA
    $446.2K
  3. NALCO WATER PRETREATMENT SOLUTIONS, LLCNAPERVILLE, IL
    $259.9K
  4. ECOLAB INC.HORSHAM, PA
    $100.2K
  5. ECOLAB FOOD SAFETY SPECIALTIES INC.FORT WORTH, TX
    $0

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

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.9MFY2017
  2. 1.4MFY2018
  3. 2.3MFY2019
  4. 2.3MFY2020
  5. 2.2MFY2021
  6. 2.3MFY2022
  7. 2.3MFY2023
  8. 2.3MFY2024
  9. 2.5MFY2025
  10. 1.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Acquisition Service$761.9K42%
    653 awards
  2. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$475.7K26%
    21 awards
  3. U.S. Customs and Border Protection$150.3K8.4%
    2 awards
  4. Department of the Navy$145.9K8.1%
    9 awards
  5. Department of Veterans Affairs$124.4K6.9%
    7 awards
  6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$111.1K6.2%
    3 awards
  7. U.S. Coast Guard$45.7K2.5%
    1 awards
  8. Defense Health Agency$16.7K0.9%
    1 awards
  9. Defense Logistics Agency-$5500.0%
    1 awards
  10. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-$32.9K0.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$1.3M72%
  2. Equipment maintenance$301.9K17%
  3. Facilities & utilities$191K11%
  4. IT & telecom$11.2K0.6%

Where the work was performed

  1. Ramsey County, MN$1.3M73%
  2. El Paso County, TX$150.3K8.4%
  3. DeKalb County, GA$111.1K6.2%
  4. San Diego County, CA$47K2.6%
  5. Stearns County, MN$42.5K2.4%
  6. Hennepin County, MN$40.7K2.3%
  7. Ventura County, CA$32.1K1.8%
  8. Chester County, PA$29.1K1.6%
  9. Portsmouth city, VA$16.7K0.9%
  10. Beaufort County, SC$5,7110.3%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition86%
    US 39% · $1.5M
  • Sole-source awards18%
    US 30% · $316.2K
  • Single-offer competitions69%
    US 8.8% · $1.2M
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · -$8,097

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 the Navy$130K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$111.1K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards
  3. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$36.7K
    Department of Justice · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. PEST CONTROL SERVICES$458.7K
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection· El Paso County, TX· Facilities & utilities· Apr 5, 2022 – Sep 1, 2026· 70B03C22F00000322
  2. PEST CONTROL SERVICES$359K
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection· El Paso County, TX· Facilities & utilities· Mar 24, 2025 – Aug 27, 2026· 70B03C25F00000213
  3. VCS FOOD LABELING PRINTERS AND PORTAL SOLUTION$313.2K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Ramsey County, MN· IT & telecom· Jul 3, 2024 – Dec 18, 2025· 36C10B24C0025
  4. LAUNDRY SERVICES AT THE MINNEAPOLIS VETERANS AFFAIRS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM$257.7K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Hennepin County, MN· Facilities & utilities· Mar 22, 2024 – Aug 24, 2026· 36C26324P0554
  5. HAZMAT CLEANING SUPPLIES FOR SD METRO GALLEYS$248.9K
    Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 30, 2025 – Feb 24, 2026· N0024425FS156
  6. CALIBRATION OF ANALYTICAL LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS$197.1K
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· DeKalb County, GA· Equipment maintenance· Sep 24, 2025 – Aug 17, 2026· 75D30125P20612
  7. GALLEY EQUIPMENT LEASE FOR CNRSW$125.4K
    Department of the Navy· Ramsey County, MN· Equipment maintenance· Jun 23, 2022 – Jan 27, 2026· N0024422P0207
  8. FOOD SERVICE AND LAUNDRY CLEANING AGENTS NECESSARY FOR THE OPERATION OF THE FLORENCE DETENTION CENTER.$103.6K
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Ramsey County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 22, 2021 – Sep 21, 2026· 70CDCR21P00000064

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1,205 received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $43.1K 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 · $6.2M reported

  1. AMENTUM SERVICES, INC.$2.3M
    CHANTILLY, VA · 9 subawards · Facilities support services
  2. FLUOR MARINE PROPULSION, LLC$1.8M
    GREENVILLE, SC · 1 subaward · Facilities support services
  3. ASRC FEDERAL FACILITIES LOGISTICS, LLC$758.6K
    FAIRFIELD, NJ · 2 subawards · Facilities support 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 57 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. APPLIED ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CORP$5.2M+111% in FY2026
    BURTON, TX · 18% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other chemical product and preparation manufacturingAir Force · Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing
  2. RIVERBEND ENERGETICS MFG., LLC$2.9M+15% in FY2026
    ALTON, IL · 14% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing
  3. HANWHA DEFENSE USA, INC.$4.7M+2.4% in FY2026
    MC LEAN, VA · 15% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing

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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 NALCO COMPANY LLC (11 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • ECOLAB INC.AI match · 100%
  • Nalco CompanyAI match · 96%
Lobbying · 2025
$1.7M
16 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$5.1M
$5.1M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$115.5K
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$1.1M
    14 reports
  2. 2024$1.4M
    16 reports
  3. 2025$1.7M
    16 reports
  4. 2026$950K
    8 reports

Top issues

  1. Environment and Superfund48 reports
  2. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code36 reports
  3. Energy and nuclear19 reports
  4. Trade (domestic and foreign)19 reports
  5. Pharmacy10 reports
  6. Transportation9 reports
  7. Chemicals and chemical industry5 reports
  8. Consumer issues, safety and products2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES53 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE53 reports
  3. Energy - Dept of24 reports
  4. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)19 reports
  5. Executive Office of the President (EOP)18 reports
  6. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)12 reports
  7. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)11 reports
  8. State - Dept of (DOS)11 reports
  9. Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)8 reports
  10. Treasury - Dept of8 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. Invariant LLC$840K
    14 reports
  2. OGR$700K
    14 reports
  3. HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$450K
    6 reports
  4. Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)$360K
    6 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$64.5K56%
  2. Democratic$48.5K42%
  3. Other or none$2,5002.2%

PACs sponsored

  • ECOLAB INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$233K 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.