Federal contractor · IRVINE, CA
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES LLC
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES LLC received $28.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 616 awards (+2% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $213.2M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($27.9M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $28.4M
- New awards
- 616
- Sole-source
- 97%
- Single offer
- 2.8%
- UEI
- MR4FCKSNGRC1
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 20.9MFY2017
- 16MFY2018
- 13.8MFY2019
- 17.2MFY2020
- 17.5MFY2021
- 20.6MFY2022
- 23.2MFY2023
- 27.3MFY2024
- 27.9MFY2025
- 28.4MFY2026
- 283.7KFY2027
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$27.9M98%606 awards
- Defense Health Agency$544K1.9%5 awards
- Defense Logistics Agency-$10.1K0.0%5 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Health & medical$28.2M99%
- Equipment maintenance$207.2K0.7%
Where the work was performed
- Orange County, CA$16.7M59%
- Hennepin County, MN$3.6M13%
- Suffolk County, MA$1.8M6.2%
- Dallas County, TX$1.5M5.4%
- Santa Clara County, CA$1.5M5.2%
- San Francisco County, CA$1.3M4.5%
- Montgomery County, MD$544K1.9%
- Harris County, TX$510K1.8%
- Allegheny County, PA$238K0.8%
- Wilson County, TN$170K0.6%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition99.6%US 39% · $28.3M
- Sole-source awards97%US 30% · $27.5M
- Single-offer competitions2.8%US 8.7% · $783.3K
- Urgency justifications0.8%US 5.1% · $230K
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
- Department of Veterans Affairs · 566 awards
- Department of Defense · 5 awards
Largest awards
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Orange County, CA· Health & medical· Jul 23, 2026 – Jul 23, 2026· 36C26126P0972
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Orange County, CA· Health & medical· Apr 15, 2026 – Apr 15, 2026· 36C24726P0498
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Orange County, CA· Health & medical· Apr 30, 2026 – Apr 30, 2026· 36C25726N0365
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Orange County, CA· Health & medical· Apr 22, 2026 – Apr 22, 2026· 36C25526K0170
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Orange County, CA· Health & medical· Jan 21, 2026 – Jan 21, 2026· 36C25526K0096
- Defense Health Agency· Montgomery County, MD· Health & medical· Jan 13, 2026 – Jan 13, 2026· HT001426PE034
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Orange County, CA· Health & medical· Sep 30, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026· 36C25526K0278
- HEART VALVE$231.2KDepartment of Veterans Affairs· Orange County, CA· Health & medical· Jul 29, 2026 – Jul 29, 2026· 36C26126P1000
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: $68.2K (1 subaward)
1 prime
- BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$68.2K100%COLUMBUS, OH · 1 subaward
By fiscal year
- FY2021: $0 paid out · $4,862 received
- FY2022: $0 paid out · $123.1K received
- FY2023: $0 paid out · $52.7K received
- FY2024: $0 paid out · $170.7K received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $68.2K 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
2 companies · $419.6K reported
- IDAHO FALLS, ID · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
- CARDINAL HEALTH 200, LLC$180.7KWAUKEGAN, IL · 38 subawards · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
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 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 8 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- PERMOBIL INC$89.9M−32% in FY2026LEBANON, TN · 16 entities · 97% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing
- COCHLEAR AMERICAS CORPORATION$70.2M−92% in FY2026LONE TREE, CO · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing
- HANGER, INC.$109.7M−51% in FY2026AUSTIN, TX · 426 entities · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturingDefense Health Agency · Medical equipment and supplies 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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.
Matched organizations
- EDWARDS LIFESCIENCESAI match · 100%
- Lobbying · 2025
- $1.3M
- 13 reports
- Lobbying · 2023–2026
- $5M
- $5M in its own reports
- PAC giving · 2026
- $229K
- 1 PAC
Lobbying by year
- 2023$1.5M12 reports
- 2024$1.6M12 reports
- 2025$1.3M13 reports
- 2026$620K9 reports
Top issues
- Medicare and Medicaid42 reports
- Health issues33 reports
- Trade (domestic and foreign)14 reports
- Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code11 reports
- Clean air and water7 reports
- Veterans4 reports
Who was contacted
- U.S. SENATE45 reports
- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES43 reports
- Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)19 reports
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)14 reports
Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).
Lobbying firms hired
- Avenue Solutions$790K14 reports
- Farragut Partners LLP$700K14 reports
- BGR Government Affairs$150K3 reports
- AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD$60K1 reports
Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.
PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle
- Republican$132K58%
- Democratic$97K42%
PACs sponsored
- EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (A.K.A. EDWARDS PAC)$284.3K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.