Federal contractor · INDIANAPOLIS, IN
FIRST DATABANK INC
FIRST DATABANK INC received $7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 9 awards (+6.6% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $59.5M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($5.4M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $7M
- New awards
- 9
- Sole-source
- 96%
- Single offer
- 0.7%
- UEI
- VMQNWNFBZ7R9
- Parent company
- HEARST BUSINESS MEDIA
Company family
Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.
3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $13.5M in FY2026 together.
- FIRST DATABANK INCINDIANAPOLIS, IN · Family page$7M
- HEARST MEDIA PRODUCTION GROUP LLCCHARLOTTE, NC$5.6M
- FIRST DATABANK, INC.SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA$921K
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 5.3MFY2017
- 5MFY2018
- 5.1MFY2019
- 5.3MFY2020
- 5.4MFY2021
- 6.3MFY2022
- 6.6MFY2023
- 6.8MFY2024
- 6.6MFY2025
- 7MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$5.4M77%1 awards
- 2 awards
- Defense Health Agency$544.3K7.7%1 awards
- Food and Drug Administration$160K2.3%1 awards
- 1 awards
- Department of the Army$21.3K0.3%1 awards
- Office of Personnel Management$5,0100.1%1 awards
- 1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- IT & telecom$7M99.7%
- Health & medical$24.6K0.3%
Where the work was performed
- Marion County, IN$6.1M87%
- Montgomery County, MD$823.9K12%
- Hamilton County, IN$71.5K1.0%
- District of Columbia, DC$24.6K0.3%
- Solano County, CA$21.3K0.3%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition97%US 39% · $6.8M
- Sole-source awards96%US 30% · $6.7M
- Single-offer competitions0.7%US 8.8% · $45.8K
- 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
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Marion County, IN· IT & telecom· Jan 28, 2022 – Aug 27, 2026· 36C10B22C0015
- FIRST DATABANK DRUG INFORMATION AND PRICING DATABASE AND DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS AND RENEWAL SERVICES$3.9MOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Mar 17, 2022 – Mar 20, 2026· 75H70422C00001
- Food and Drug Administration· Marion County, IN· IT & telecom· Sep 20, 2023 – Sep 21, 2026· 75F40123C00203
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management· District of Columbia, DC· Health & medical· Jul 23, 2024 – Jul 6, 2026· 1605C324P00010
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources· Hamilton County, IN· IT & telecom· Aug 6, 2026 – Aug 6, 2026· 7571MN26P00054
- Drug Enforcement Administration· Hamilton County, IN· IT & telecom· Jun 27, 2024 – Jul 8, 2026· 15DDHQ24P00000586
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.
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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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
1 company · $117.8K reported
- ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$117.8KGROTON, CT · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development services
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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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 15 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- ATTN: INC.$5.2MLOS ANGELES, CA · 19% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveState · Media streaming, social networks, and other media networks and content providers
- EBSCO INDUSTRIES INC$31.4M−84% in FY2026SHREWSBURY, NJ · 5 entities · 12% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers
- IDENTIPRISE CORP.$1.2MHAYMARKET, VA · 4.4% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Health Agency · Computer systems design 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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 FIRST DATABANK INC (3 recipients).
Matched organizations
- Hearst CorporationAI match · 99%
- Lobbying · 2025
- $360K
- 4 reports
- Lobbying · 2023–2026
- $1.3M
Lobbying by year
- 2023$360K4 reports
- 2024$360K4 reports
- 2025$360K4 reports
- 2026$180K2 reports
Top issues
- Health issues14 reports
- Law enforcement, crime and criminal justice13 reports
- Veterans13 reports
- Computer industry11 reports
Who was contacted
- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
- U.S. SENATE14 reports
- Labor - Dept of (DOL)3 reports
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)2 reports
- Treasury - Dept of1 reports
Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).
Lobbying firms hired
- Invariant LLC$1.3M14 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.