Federal contractor · WILMINGTON, NC

EMS LINQ, LLC

EMS LINQ, LLC received $74K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (−57% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $1.6M. Its largest customer was Department of Defense Education Activity ($74K).

Obligations · FY2026
$74K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
R2HWL869GPN3
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 176.6KFY2019
  2. 377.9KFY2020
  3. 291.5KFY2021
  4. 184KFY2022
  5. 170.5KFY2023
  6. 171.3KFY2024
  7. 171.3KFY2025
  8. 74KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Defense Education Activity$74K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$74K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. New Hanover County, NC$74K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $74K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.8% · $74K
  • 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. STUDENT MEALS PROGRAM SOFTWARE SUITE$1.4M
    Department of Defense Education Activity· New Hanover County, NC· IT & telecom· Aug 7, 2019 – May 23, 2026· HE125419P3004

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-grants: $72.7K (3 subawards)

2 primes

  1. MAINE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$62.3K86%
    AUGUSTA, ME · 1 subaward
  2. IN DEPT OF EDUCATION$10.4K14%
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $908.9K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $210.8K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.3M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $70.7K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $72.7K 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

2 companies · $2.6M reported

  1. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION INDIANA$2.2M
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 8 subawards
  2. MAINE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$416.6K
    AUGUSTA, ME · 8 subawards

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

  1. TECH4LEARNING INC$191.2K−100% in FY2026
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 46% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Education Activity · Software publishers
  2. TURNITIN HOLDINGS, LLC$547.8K−91% in FY2026
    NEW YORK, NY · 69% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Education Activity · Software publishers
  3. EDYNAMIC HOLDINGS, LP$450.8K−98% in FY2026
    SOUTHLAKE, TX · 46% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Education Activity · Software publishers

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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 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.

Matched organizations

  • EMS LINQ, LLCAI match · 90%
Lobbying · 2025
$200K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2024–2026
$345K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2024$95K
    2 reports
  2. 2025$200K
    4 reports
  3. 2026$50K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Agriculture7 reports

Who was contacted

  1. Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)7 reports
  2. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES7 reports
  3. U.S. SENATE7 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. Caprock Strategies, LLC$345K
    8 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

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 Oct 5, 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.