Federal contractor · SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA

FIRST DATABANK, INC.

FIRST DATABANK, INC. received $921K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+171% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.7M. Its largest customer was Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ($921K).

Obligations · FY2026: $921K
New awards: 3
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: LUP2TRXNFW39
Parent company: HEARST BUSINESS MEDIA

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 FIRST DATABANK INC company family: 3 registered entities, $13.5M in FY2026 together. See the family

FIRST DATABANK INCINDIANAPOLIS, IN · Family page
Reported parent$7M
HEARST MEDIA PRODUCTION GROUP LLCCHARLOTTE, NC
Reported parent$5.6M

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

410.6KFY2017
451.6KFY2018
438.3KFY2019
658.3KFY2020
829.4KFY2021
488.8KFY2022
640KFY2023
525.5KFY2024
339.6KFY2025
921KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services$921K100%
3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Professional services$921K100%

Where the work was performed

San Mateo County, CA$921K100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $921K
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $921K
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.

Largest awards

THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PURCHASE FIRST DATABANK PRODUCTS TO SUPPORT CMS WORK SUCH AS THE MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT PROGRAM (PART D) AND CMS GOAL TO "ELIMINATE FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE". THE LICENSES ARE REQUIRED FOR THE ELECTRONIC$1.2M
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services· San Mateo County, CA· Professional services· Sep 30, 2025 – Sep 23, 2026· 75FCMC25PJ032
THIS PURCHASE IS FOR A ONE-YEAR LICENSE AGREEMENT, 4 USERS, WITH FIRST DATABANK, TO RENEW THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG RX NORM CROSS REFERENCE MODULE, THE FDB NATIONAL DRUG CODES, AND DATA INFORMATION FOR ELECTRONIC DELIVERY TO CMS ON A DAILY BASIS. THIS$170.1K
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services· San Mateo County, CA· Professional services· Sep 19, 2024 – Mar 3, 2026· 75FCMC24P0036
004175 CMMI TITLE: DATA PURCHASES. THIS RENEWAL WILL ALLOW CONTINUED ACCESS TO FDB DATA.$128.1K
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services· San Mateo County, CA· Professional services· Aug 15, 2024 – Mar 4, 2026· 75FCMC24P0019

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 · $36.8K received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $39.4K 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 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

1 company · $117.8K reported

ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$117.8K
GROTON, CT · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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.$5.2M
LOS 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 FY2026
SHREWSBURY, NJ · 5 entities · 12% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers
IDENTIPRISE CORP.$1.2M
HAYMARKET, 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 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 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$360K
4 reports
2024$360K
4 reports
2025$360K
4 reports
2026$180K
2 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
Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)3 reports
Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)3 reports
Labor - Dept of (DOL)3 reports
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)2 reports
Executive Office of the President (EOP)1 reports
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)1 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$1.3M
14 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 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: 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.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 4250 · PRESS Act5 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
S. 2074 · PRESS Act5 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
H.R. 3089 · NDO Fairness Act3 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
S. 4037 · NDO Fairness Act1 report
118th Congress · Introduced · 2024

5 of 14 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 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 5, 2026, loaded 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.