Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

GWO, INC.

GWO, INC. received $1.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−4.9% vs FY2025). Since FY2025: $2.8M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($745K).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.4M
New awards
4
Sole-source
54%
Single offer
1.3%
UEI
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Small businessWoman-ownedMinority-owned8(a) program
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.4MFY2025
  2. 1.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$745K55%
    3 awards
  2. Forest Service$605.5K45%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$702.6K52%
  2. Construction & real property$647.8K48%

Where the work was performed

  1. Will County, IL$1.3M96%
  2. Cook County, IL$42.3K3.1%
  3. Brown County, IL$18K1.3%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition55%
    US 39% · $745K
  • Sole-source awards54%
    US 30% · $727K
  • Single-offer competitions1.3%
    US 8.7% · $18K
  • 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 the Army$727K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. THE WORK INCLUDES CONCRETE WORK REQUIRED TO CONSTRUCT A FOUNDATION FOR THE GOVERNMENT FURNISHED 375 KVA STAND-BY GENERATOR AND ASSOCIATED CONCRETE PAD.$1.3M
    Department of the Army· Cook County, IL· Construction & real property· Sep 25, 2025 – May 28, 2026· W912P625CA006
  2. ILLINOIS WATERWAY LOCKPORT DEWATERING SUPPLIES$684.6K
    Department of the Army· Will County, IL· Facilities & utilities· Jan 29, 2026 – Apr 13, 2026· W912EK26CA007
  3. THIS PROJECT IS FOR CULVERT REPLACEMENT CONSTRUCTION SERVICES ON THE MIDEWIN NATIONAL TALLGRASS PRAIRIE. WORK INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO STAKING, CLEARING AND GRUBBING, STRUCTURE EXCAVATION, DEWATERING, RIPRAP PLACEMENT, CONCRETE BARRIER, CONSERV$605.5K
    Forest Service· Will County, IL· Construction & real property· Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 4, 2026· 12445526P0050
  4. TUGBOAT SERVICE AT LAGRANGE LOCK AND DAM$18K
    Department of the Army· Brown County, IL· Facilities & utilities· Mar 9, 2026 – Jun 1, 2026· W912EK26PA018

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

  1. COAL CREEK CONSTRUCTION, INC.$1.9M−67% in FY2026
    UNDERWOOD, ND · 2 entities · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Utility system constructionForest Service · Highway, street, and bridge construction
  2. OSBORNE CONSTRUCTION CO$1.2M
    REDMOND, WA · 43% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Utility system construction
  3. JOHN KENO AND COMPANY, INC.$1.1M
    CHICAGO, IL · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Utility system construction

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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.