Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

EXP FEDERAL INC.

EXP FEDERAL INC. received $439.9K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 35 awards (−99% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $327.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($3.9M).

Obligations · FY2026
$439.9K
New awards
35
Sole-source
66%
Single offer
100%
UEI
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Other than small business

Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $3.1M in FY2026 together.

  1. EXP FEDERAL INC.CHICAGO, IL · Family page
    $439.9K
  2. $2.6M

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 43.1MFY2017
  2. 37.9MFY2018
  3. 30.7MFY2019
  4. 27.7MFY2020
  5. 30.6MFY2021
  6. 17.4MFY2022
  7. 37.8MFY2023
  8. 42.2MFY2024
  9. 60.1MFY2025
  10. 439.9KFY2026
  11. 49.6KFY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 4 awards
  2. 2 awards
  3. 2 awards
  4. 4 awards
  5. 23 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Construction & real property$562.9K66%
  2. Facilities & utilities$288.9K34%

Where the work was performed

  1. Abroad$841K100%
  2. Will County, IL$288.9K66%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $1.9M
  • Sole-source awards66%
    US 30% · $288.9K
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $1.6M
  • 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 Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Department of the Air Force· Coffee County, TN· Construction & real property· Apr 27, 2023 – Mar 17, 2026· FA910123FB037
  2. Department of the Army· Cook County, IL· Construction & real property· Sep 29, 2024 – Oct 31, 2025· W912HN24F2051
  3. Department of the Air Force· Coffee County, TN· Construction & real property· Feb 29, 2024 – May 29, 2026· FA910124FB026
  4. Department of the Army· Cook County, IL· Construction & real property· Sep 6, 2022 – Oct 30, 2025· W912HN22F2020
  5. Department of the Army· Construction & real property· Oct 4, 2019 – Dec 23, 2025· W912GB20F0001
  6. Millennium Challenge Corporation· Professional services· Aug 30, 2019 – Jun 4, 2026· 95332419C0080
  7. Department of the Army· District of Columbia, DC· Construction & real property· Sep 27, 2023 – Nov 5, 2025· W912DY23F0481
  8. Department of State· Construction & real property· Aug 21, 2023 – Jul 3, 2026· 19AQMM23F2301

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 · $4.3M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $3.1M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $13M received
  • FY2024: $684.7K paid out · $640.4K 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 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

6 companies · $684.7K reported

  1. SAINT LOUIS, MO · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  2. HEZNER CORPORATION, THE$163.4K
    LIBERTYVILLE, IL · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. TYLK GUSTAFSON RECKERS WILSON ANDREWS LLC$127.9K
    CHICAGO, IL · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services

Primes that pay it

4 companies · $24.2M reported

  1. BIRMINGHAM, AL · 5 subawards · Nonresidential building construction
  2. ANCHORAGE, AK · 6 subawards · Nonresidential building construction
  3. SPRINGFIELD, VA · 1 subaward · Nonresidential building construction

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

  1. EA-BAKER PARTNERS JV$71.4M+14% in FY2026
    HUNT VALLEY, MD · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  2. IRONMOUNTAIN SOLUTIONS, LLC$70.9M+66% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 65% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. F3EA INC$83.6M+89% in FY2026
    SAVANNAH, GA · 67% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Architectural, engineering, and related 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.