Federal contractor · AMSTERDAM

ELSEVIER B.V.

ELSEVIER B.V. received $5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 16 awards (−28% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $202.3M. Its largest customer was National Institute of Standards and Technology ($1.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$5M
New awards
16
Sole-source
99.9%
Single offer
0.1%
UEI
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Other than small businessForeign-owned
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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 REED TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SERVICES LLC company family: 14 registered entities, $356.3M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. REED TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SERVICES LLCHORSHAM, PA · Family page
    $218.1M
  2. LEXISNEXIS SPECIAL SERVICES INCMCLEAN, VA
    $53.4M
  3. RELX INC.MIAMISBURG, OH
    $45M
  4. ELSEVIER INC.MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO
    $25.7M
  5. LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS INCALPHARETTA, GA
    $6.1M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · jev-1.13.0 · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 21.7MFY2017
  2. 22.9MFY2018
  3. 24.5MFY2019
  4. 26.4MFY2020
  5. 27.1MFY2021
  6. 26.4MFY2022
  7. 22.7MFY2023
  8. 18.8MFY2024
  9. 6.9MFY2025
  10. 5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology$1.7M34%
    1 awards
  2. Environmental Protection Agency$1.3M26%
    1 awards
  3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$759.7K15%
    2 awards
  4. Department of the Air Force$653.4K13%
    2 awards
  5. National Science Foundation$328.4K6.6%
    1 awards
  6. Department of the Navy$149.6K3.0%
    3 awards
  7. Federal Trade Commission$64K1.3%
    1 awards
  8. International Trade Commission$41.9K0.8%
    1 awards
  9. Defense Health Agency$4,6490.1%
    1 awards
  10. Federal Highway Administration$3,0930.1%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$1.8M36%
  2. Education & social services$1.7M34%
  3. IT & telecom$1.4M29%
  4. Professional services$67K1.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, MD$1.7M34%
  2. New York County, NY$1.3M26%
  3. Abroad$887K18%
  4. Greene County, OH$564.8K11%
  5. Alexandria city, VA$328.4K6.6%
  6. Anne Arundel County, MD$149.6K3.0%
  7. District of Columbia, DC$64K1.3%
  8. Fairfax County, VA$3,0930.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $5M
  • Sole-source awards99.9%
    US 30% · $5M
  • Single-offer competitions0.1%
    US 8.8% · $3,093
  • 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 the Air Force$653.4K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES$7.9M
    National Institute of Standards and Technology· Montgomery County, MD· Education & social services· Nov 18, 2021 – Dec 4, 2025· 1333ND22CNB130003
  2. ELSEVIER SCIENCEDIRECT PLATFORM JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION$4.9M
    Environmental Protection Agency· New York County, NY· IT & telecom· Dec 31, 2022 – Jul 21, 2026· 68HERD23P0020
  3. SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTIONS - ELECTRONIC ONLINE ACCESS FOR NOAA LIBRARIES.$3.5M
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 22, 2021 – Jun 17, 2026· 1305M321PNRMA0579
  4. ELSEVIER SCOPUS BIBLIOMETRICS DATABASE$1.8M
    National Science Foundation· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 21, 2020 – Dec 30, 2025· 49100421P0012
  5. FOR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED - FINGERPRINT ENGINE LICENSE SUPPORT -$805.6K
    National Institutes of Health· IT & telecom· Sep 28, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026· HHSN276201300398P
  6. ELSEVIER SCOPUS / SCIVAL SUBSCRIPTION ACCESS$564.8K
    Department of the Air Force· Greene County, OH· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 8, 2026 – Jan 8, 2026· FA239626PB015
  7. ELSEVIER KNOVEL DIGITAL LIBRARY ACCESS.$461.9K
    Department of the Air Force· IT & telecom· Jan 6, 2022 – Dec 19, 2025· FA239622P0034
  8. JOURNAL TITLE SUBSCRIPTION$375K
    Department of the Navy· Anne Arundel County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 19, 2023 – Jan 27, 2026· N0018924P0058

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 · $504.6K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $823.3K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $154.9K 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

19 companies · $31.8M reported

  1. TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC$17.8M
    COLUMBUS, OH · 4 subawards · Facilities support services
  2. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$4.7M
    TALLAHASSEE, FL · 60 subawards
  3. PERATON ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS LLC$2.7M
    CHANTILLY, VA · 1 subaward · Other financial investment activities

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

  1. WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION$298.2M−9.3% in FY2026
    EAGAN, MN · 3 entities · 9.3% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffices, Boards and Divisions · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesSocial Security Administration · Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information servicesState · Other information services+11 more
  2. INSPIRITEC INC$93.1M
    PHILADELPHIA, PA · 4.3% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · Business support services
  3. DUN & BRADSTREET, INC$106.9M+128% in FY2026
    JACKSONVILLE, FL · 4.1% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · Business support servicesU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information services

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 REED TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SERVICES LLC (14 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS FL INC.AI match · 100%
  • Elsevier Inc.AI match · 99%
  • RELX INC.AI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2025
$3.4M
50 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$11.5M
$11.5M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$111.5K
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$3.1M
    48 reports
  2. 2024$3.1M
    45 reports
  3. 2025$3.4M
    50 reports
  4. 2026$1.9M
    21 reports

Top issues

  1. Consumer issues, safety and products66 reports
  2. Copyright, patent and trademark57 reports
  3. Government issues49 reports
  4. Medicare and Medicaid42 reports
  5. Computer industry40 reports
  6. Health issues35 reports
  7. Budget and appropriations28 reports
  8. Trade (domestic and foreign)24 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES157 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE149 reports
  3. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)28 reports
  4. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)26 reports
  5. Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)23 reports
  6. Office of Management & Budget (OMB)23 reports
  7. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO)17 reports
  8. Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)14 reports
  9. Executive Office of the President (EOP)12 reports
  10. U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)11 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. HEALTH POLICY SOURCE, INC.$1.4M
    23 reports
  2. Marla Grossman LLC$980K
    14 reports
  3. Avoq, LLC$840K
    14 reports
  4. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP$700K
    14 reports
  5. KLEIN/JOHNSON GROUP$700K
    14 reports
  6. CGCN GROUP, LLC$670K
    14 reports
  7. Venable LLP$560K
    10 reports

14 firms in all. Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$69.5K62%
  2. Democratic$42K38%

PACs sponsored

  • RELX INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$159.8K 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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 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: AI name judgments (entity-match@1, jev-1.13.0), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.