Federal contractor · RESTON, VA

GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC

GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC received $95.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 7,188 awards (−26% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.2B. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($52.8M).

Obligations · FY2026
$95.5M
New awards
7,188
Sole-source
2.9%
Single offer
18%
UEI
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Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 99MFY2017
  2. 116.2MFY2018
  3. 104.1MFY2019
  4. 140.6MFY2020
  5. 127.9MFY2021
  6. 118.1MFY2022
  7. 122.6MFY2023
  8. 104.9MFY2024
  9. 129.1MFY2025
  10. 95.5MFY2026
  11. 1.6MFY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 6,592 awards
  2. 212 awards
  3. 11 awards
  4. 58 awards
  5. 59 awards
  6. 51 awards
  7. 41 awards
  8. 14 awards
  9. 10 awards
  10. 6 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$84.5M88%
  2. Health & medical$9.8M10%
  3. IT & telecom$927K1.0%
  4. Equipment maintenance$275.5K0.3%
  5. Professional services$55.3K0.1%

Where the work was performed

  1. Abroad$1.2M1.2%
  2. Clay County, NE$405.5K0.4%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition20%
    US 39% · $19.5M
  • Sole-source awards2.9%
    US 30% · $2.8M
  • Single-offer competitions18%
    US 8.7% · $16.8M
  • Urgency justifications0.4%
    US 5.1% · $338.7K

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 Veterans Affairs · 12 awards
  2. Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards
  3. Department of Health and Human Services · 5 awards
  4. Department of the Interior · 1 awards
  5. Department of Agriculture · 3 awards

Largest awards

  1. Drug Enforcement Administration· Fairfax County, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 15, 2026 – Aug 8, 2026· 15DDHQ26F00000635
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs· Los Angeles County, CA· Health & medical· Jan 10, 2023 – Feb 6, 2026· 36C26223F0165
  3. Federal Acquisition Service· Harford County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 29, 2024 – Mar 12, 2026· 47QFNA24F0145
  4. Federal Acquisition Service· Harford County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 23, 2024 – Apr 20, 2026· 47QFNA24F0089
  5. Defense Health Agency· Duval County, FL· Health & medical· Mar 18, 2021 – Dec 3, 2025· N6264521F0091
  6. National Institute of Standards and Technology· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 19, 2024 – Apr 15, 2026· 1333ND24PNB640622
  7. Department of the Navy· Fairfax County, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 14, 2024 – Jun 4, 2026· N0017324P0056
  8. Drug Enforcement Administration· Fairfax County, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 13, 2026· 15DDHQ26F00000748

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 24.9KFY2022

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2022.

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-contracts: $7.6M (55 subawards)

9 primes

  1. LYNCHBURG, VA · 38 subawards
  2. COLUMBUS, OH · 4 subawards
  3. OLATHE, KS · 2 subawards
  4. FREDERICK, MD · 2 subawards
  5. HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward
  6. RICHLAND, WA · 2 subawards
  7. AIKEN, SC · 4 subawards
  8. KINGSPORT, TN · 1 subaward
  9. ANCHORAGE, AK · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $181.3M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $11.7M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $9.3M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $9.5M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $11.5M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $7.6M 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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

19 companies · $230.8M reported

  1. COLUMBUS, OH · 83 subawards · Facilities support services
  2. FREDERICK, MD · 136 subawards · Facilities support services
  3. LYNCHBURG, VA · 72 subawards · Facilities support services

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

  1. ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION$176.4M−37% in FY2026
    CHELMSFORD, MA · 3 entities · 49% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalersVeterans Affairs · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingVeterans Affairs · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing
  2. ARTHREX INC$188.7M−26% in FY2026
    NAPLES, FL · 2 entities · 49% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalersVeterans Affairs · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing
  3. RARITAN, NJ · 20 entities · 46% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalersVeterans Affairs · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturingVeterans Affairs · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing

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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 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.