Federal contractor · BLOOMINGTON, MN

GED TESTING SERVICE LLC

GED TESTING SERVICE LLC received $752.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−34% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $12.3M. Its largest customer was Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons ($752.8K).

Obligations · FY2026: $752.8K
New awards: 2
Sole-source: 0.0%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: ZFGNR8TJ2JL6

Other than small businessForeign-owned

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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.

6 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $1.3M in FY2026 together.

GED TESTING SERVICE LLCBLOOMINGTON, MN · Family page
Reported parent$752.8K
PEARSON EDUCATION, INCHOBOKEN, NJ
AI name match · 87%$519.9K
F.T. PUBLICATIONS INC.NEW YORK, NY
Reported parent$0
KNOWLEDGE ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCBOULDER, CO
Reported parent$0
PEARSON EDUCATION HOLDINGS INC.BOSTON, MA
Reported parent$0
PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.OLD TAPPAN, NJ
Reported parent$0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

2.3MFY2017
-493.5KFY2018
2.3MFY2019
1.4MFY2020
478.1KFY2021
683.9KFY2022
1.9MFY2023
1.9MFY2024
1.1MFY2025
752.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$752.8K100%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Education & social services$752.8K100%

Where the work was performed

Hennepin County, MN$752.8K100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition0.0%
US 39% · $0
Sole-source awards0.0%
US 30% · $0
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

FUNDING TO PAY FOR GEDTS INVOICES OCT 2025 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2026$1.4M
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Hennepin County, MN· Education & social services· May 20, 2026 – May 20, 2026· 15BNAS26F00000153
REQUEST FUNDING TO PAY FOR GEDTS INVOICES APRIL 2025 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2025$441K
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Hennepin County, MN· Education & social services· Aug 12, 2025 – Feb 17, 2026· 15BNAS25F00000191

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

AZTEC SOFTWARE, LLC$2.9M+114,268% in FY2026
MORRISTOWN, NJ · 44% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Educational support services
THE ECONOMIST NEWSPAPER, N.A INCORPORATED$2.7M−100% in FY2026
NEW YORK, NY · 37% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers
IOP PUBLISHING LIMITED$3.3M+0.7% in FY2026
BRISTOL, GBR · 36% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishersNavy · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory 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 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 GED TESTING SERVICE LLC (6 recipients).

Matched organizations

PEARSON EDUCATIONAI match · 100%
Pearson Education, Inc./NCS Pearson, Inc.AI match · 100%
Pearson Inc.AI match · 99%

Lobbying · 2025: $490K; 11 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $1.8M; $1.8M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$540K
13 reports
2024$440K
12 reports
2025$490K
11 reports
2026$320K
5 reports

Top issues

Education39 reports
Science and technology9 reports
Labor issues, antitrust and workplace8 reports
Law enforcement, crime and criminal justice5 reports
Budget and appropriations4 reports
Transportation3 reports
Copyright, patent and trademark1 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code1 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES34 reports
U.S. SENATE33 reports
Education - Dept of7 reports
Executive Office of the President (EOP)7 reports
Justice - Dept of (DOJ)4 reports
Labor - Dept of (DOL)4 reports
State - Dept of (DOS)3 reports
Commerce - Dept of (DOC)2 reports
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)2 reports
Peace Corps2 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$370K
8 reports
Venable LLP$240K
4 reports
Van Scoyoc Associates$180K
7 reports
Todd Strategy Group$150K
6 reports
FGS Global (US) LLC (FKA FGH Holdings LLC)$20K
1 reports
Bernstein Strategy Group$10K
1 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.

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. 6585 · Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act10 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2026
H.R. 5304 · Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20266 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
H.R. 6655 · A Stronger Workforce for America Act4 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
H.R. 5800 · SAFE Drivers Act4 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
H.R. 8183 · MATCH Act of 20263 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026
S. 2587 · Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 reports
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2025–2026
H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025
H.R. 7148 · Consolidated Appropriations Act, 20262 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2026
S. 2114 · Commercial Motor Vehicle English Proficiency Act2 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026
H.R. 8210 · A Stronger Workforce for America Act of 20261 report
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026

19 of 41 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 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.