Federal contractor · BOZEMAN, MT

HEADWATERS ECONOMICS INC

HEADWATERS ECONOMICS INC received $35K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−36% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $932.7K. Its largest customer was Bureau of Land Management ($35K). It also received $1.3M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$35K
New awards
3
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
F24KN14HRKA9
Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 75KFY2017
  2. 60KFY2018
  3. 17.9KFY2019
  4. 9.8KFY2020
  5. 55KFY2021
  6. 80KFY2022
  7. 465KFY2023
  8. 80KFY2024
  9. 55KFY2025
  10. 35KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Bureau of Land Management$35K100%
    2 awards
  2. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$35K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Gallatin County, MT$35K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $35K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $35K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Bureau of Land Management$35K
    Department of the Interior · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. CO-NRPC-SE TOOL MAINT.$150K
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service· Gallatin County, MT· IT & telecom· May 19, 2021 – Mar 10, 2026· 140F0921P0032
  2. ANNUAL UPDATES & MAINTENANCE OF SOCIOECONOMIC PROFILE (SEP) TOOL & ECONOMIC PROFILE SYSTEM (EPS)$35K
    Bureau of Land Management· Gallatin County, MT· Professional services· Aug 12, 2026 – Aug 12, 2026· 140L0626P0032
  3. SEP & EPS ANNUAL DATA UPDATES$25K
    Bureau of Land Management· Jefferson County, CO· Professional services· Aug 1, 2025 – Feb 10, 2026· 140L0625P0042

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.

HEADWATERS ECONOMICS INC received $1.3M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (2 new awards), +5.6% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.699 · Partnership Agreements ($1.3M).

Assistance · FY2026
$1.3M
New awards
2
Actions
2
Since FY2021
$8.6M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 755KFY2021
  2. 2.3MFY2022
  3. 1.6MFY2023
  4. 1.3MFY2024
  5. 1.3MFY2025
  6. 1.3MFY2026

By type

  1. Other assistance$1.3M100%

Top programs

  1. 10.699 · Partnership Agreements$1.3M100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Forest Service$1.3M100%
    Department of Agriculture

Largest awards

  1. COMMUNITY FIRE MITIGATION PROGRAM. THE PURPOSE OF THIS AGREEMENT IS TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY PLANNING ASSISTANCE TO RURAL COMMUNITIES LOCATED…$800K
    10.699 · Partnership Agreements· Forest Service· Other financial assistance· Sep 22, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026· 26PA11132543075
  2. THIS NEW AWARD WILL SUPPORT ONE YEAR OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES THAT ENABLES COMMUNITIES AND FIRE MANAGERS TO ACCESS AND…$520K
    10.699 · Partnership Agreements· Forest Service· Other financial assistance· Sep 28, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026· 26PA11132543091

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 · FY2021–FY2026.

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-grants: $40K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$40K100%
    SEATTLE, WA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $35K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $48.5K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $210K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $33.8K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $40K 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

3 companies · $367.3K reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$168.7K
    SEATTLE, WA · 3 subawards
  2. MULTIPLIER$115K
    OAKLAND, CA · 1 subaward
  3. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$83.5K
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 2 subawards

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

  1. D.R. SYSTEMS NORTHWEST INC.$101.5K+4.7% in FY2026
    SEATTLE, WA · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Land Management · Computer systems design and related services
  2. GOSERCO INC$103.8K0% in FY2026
    MESA, AZ · 58% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Land Management · Computer systems design and related services
  3. CENTURION CONSULTING GROUP, LLC$138.3K
    ASHBURN, VA · 65% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Land Management · Computer systems design and related services

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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.