Federal contractor · BRYN MAWR, PA

ESSENTIAL UTILITIES, INC.

ESSENTIAL UTILITIES, INC. received $435.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−12% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $3.9M. Its largest customer was Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons ($435.7K).

Obligations · FY2026: $435.7K
New awards: 2
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: DT12NMCAPN69

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 PEOPLES NATURAL GAS COMPANY LLC company family: 2 registered entities, $1M in FY2026 together. See the family

PEOPLES NATURAL GAS COMPANY LLCPITTSBURGH, PA · Family page
Reported parent$612.6K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

354.4KFY2017
326.9KFY2018
471.2KFY2019
365.6KFY2020
380.4KFY2021
320.8KFY2022
411.9KFY2023
376KFY2024
495.8KFY2025
435.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$435.7K100%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Facilities & utilities$435.7K100%

Where the work was performed

Montgomery County, PA$435.7K100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $435.7K
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $435.7K
Single-offer competitions0.0%
US 8.8% · $0
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

Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$435.7K
Department of Justice · 1 awards

Largest awards

AQUA AMERICA FY 2026 WATER SERVICE FOR USP CANAAN$438.7K
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Montgomery County, PA· Facilities & utilities· Oct 28, 2025 – Apr 9, 2026· 15B21526F00000029
AQUA AMERICA$378.4K
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Montgomery County, PA· Facilities & utilities· Oct 25, 2024 – Dec 16, 2025· 15B21525F00000002

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: $29.3M (12 subawards)

1 prime

PENNVEST$29.3M100%
PHILADELPHIA, PA · 12 subawards

By fiscal year

FY2023: $0 paid out · $5.2M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $13.8M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $20.7M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $29.3M 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 · $69M reported

PENNVEST$63.8M
PHILADELPHIA, PA · 28 subawards
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY$5.2M
RALEIGH, NC · 4 subawards

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

CITY OF GREENVILLE$1.4M−100% in FY2026
GREENVILLE, IL · 58% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Water, sewage and other systems
WAYMART AREA AUTHORITY$1.5M+19% in FY2026
WAYMART, PA · 58% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Water, sewage and other systems
CITY OF DANBURY CT$1.8M−80% in FY2026
DANBURY, CT · 58% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Water, sewage and other systems

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 PEOPLES NATURAL GAS COMPANY LLC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

ESSENTIAL UTILITIES, INC.AI match · 99%

PAC giving · 2026: $16K; 1 PAC

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Republican$12K75%
Democratic$4,00025%

PACs sponsored

ESSENTIAL UTILITIES, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$285.9K 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.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2026 cycle

David McCormick$4,000
R-PA · Senate · 1 PAC
Donald Norcross$3,500
D-NJ-1 · House · 1 PAC
Daniel Meuser$2,500
R-PA-9 · House · 1 PAC
Guy Reschenthaler$2,000
R-PA-14 · House · 1 PAC
John Joyce$1,000
R-PA-13 · House · 1 PAC
Dan Sullivan$1,000
R-AK · Senate · 1 PAC
David J. Taylor$500
R-OH-2 · House · 1 PAC

$14.5K of the $19.5K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 7 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

David McCormick$10K
R-PA · Senate · 1 PAC
Daniel Meuser$6,000
R-PA-9 · House · 1 PAC
Tim Scott$3,300
R-SC · Senate · 1 PAC
Brian K. Fitzpatrick$3,000
R-PA-1 · House · 1 PAC
John Joyce$2,000
R-PA-13 · House · 1 PAC

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

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

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.

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.