Federal contractor · HORSHAM, PA

ECOLAB INC.

ECOLAB INC. received $100.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−20% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $3.8M. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($90.9K).

Obligations · FY2026
$100.2K
New awards
4
Sole-source
9.3%
Single offer
100%
UEI
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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.

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. ECOLAB INCSAINT PAUL, MN
    $1.8M
  3. BARCLAY WATER MANAGEMENT, INC.NEWTON, MA
    $446.2K
  4. NALCO WATER PRETREATMENT SOLUTIONS, LLCNAPERVILLE, IL
    $259.9K
  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. 369.5KFY2017
  2. 343.1KFY2018
  3. 248.2KFY2019
  4. 1.8MFY2020
  5. 214.2KFY2021
  6. 295.3KFY2022
  7. 294.9KFY2023
  8. 47.2KFY2024
  9. 126.1KFY2025
  10. 100.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institutes of Health$90.9K91%
    2 awards
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$9,3319.3%
    1 awards
  3. Environmental Protection Agency$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Health & medical$118.8K93%
  2. Equipment maintenance$9,3317.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, MD$118.8K100%
  2. Santa Clara County, CA$9,3319.3%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $128.1K
  • Sole-source awards9.3%
    US 30% · $9,331
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.8% · $118.8K
  • 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

  1. BIO-DECONTAMINATION SERVICES WITH HYDROGEN PEROXIDE VAPOR FROM ECOLAB-BIOQUELL [24-006022]$344.6K
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Health & medical· May 24, 2024 – Apr 24, 2026· 75N90024P00424
  2. BIOQUELL INC:1135380 [18-001346]$281.7K
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, PA· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 1, 2018 – Apr 24, 2026· 75N90018P00675
  3. BASE YEAR - PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT (PM) FOR THE ECOLAB BIOQUELL SYSTEM$18.7K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Santa Clara County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Jul 23, 2025 – Aug 7, 2026· 36C26125P1291
  4. ECOLAB IN. WILL PROVIDE BIOQUELL L4 BIO-DECONTAMINATION SYSTEM PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE/ CALIBRATION SERVICE AND ANNUAL OPTIONAL OPERATOR REFRESHER TRAINING,$7,390
    Environmental Protection Agency· District of Columbia, DC· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 27, 2025 – Feb 10, 2026· 68HERH25P0145

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

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $83.6K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $47.2K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $329.1K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $45.4K 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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.