Federal contractor · BEAVERCREEK, OH

ILLUMINATION WORKS, LLC

ILLUMINATION WORKS, LLC received $18.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 9 awards (+1.8% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $52.8M. Its largest customer was Federal Acquisition Service ($11M).

Obligations · FY2026
$18.5M
New awards
9
Sole-source
84%
Single offer
16%
UEI
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Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 376.7KFY2019
  2. 910.3KFY2020
  3. 1.6MFY2021
  4. 1.9MFY2022
  5. 5.1MFY2023
  6. 6.3MFY2024
  7. 18.1MFY2025
  8. 18.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 5 awards
  2. 4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$18.5M100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $18.5M
  • Sole-source awards84%
    US 30% · $15.5M
  • Single-offer competitions16%
    US 8.7% · $3M
  • 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. General Services Administration · 1 awards
  2. Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Federal Acquisition Service· Greene County, OH· Research & development· May 23, 2023 – Aug 19, 2026· 47QFLA23F0102
  2. Federal Acquisition Service· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Sep 25, 2024 – Sep 28, 2026· 47QFLA24F0156
  3. Federal Acquisition Service· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Mar 29, 2024 – Aug 19, 2026· 47QFLA24F0071
  4. Department of the Air Force· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Sep 8, 2025 – May 29, 2026· FA810025FB013
  5. Department of the Air Force· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Jul 19, 2023 – Mar 19, 2026· FA864923P1087
  6. Department of the Air Force· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Jun 12, 2026 – Jun 12, 2026· FA810026FB012
  7. Department of the Air Force· Montgomery County, OH· Research & development· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· FA864126CB001
  8. Federal Acquisition Service· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Apr 17, 2025 – Aug 18, 2026· 47QFLA25F0050

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

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $178.9K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.9M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1M received
  • FY2025: $215.1K paid out · $2.2M 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

2 companies · $215.1K reported

  1. MAURICE'S MANAGEMENT CONSULTING MMC LLC$126.9K
    WAYNESVILLE, OH · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services
  2. GAINESVILLE, VA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services

Primes that pay it

4 companies · $5.3M reported

  1. HOUSTON, TX · 6 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. ALEXANDRIA, VA · 2 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. ANN ARBOR, MI · 1 subaward

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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

  1. AGILE5 TECHNOLOGIES INC$24.9M−76% in FY2026
    FAIRMONT, WV · 55% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · Computer systems design and related services
  2. WINGBRACE LLC$22.6M+135% in FY2026
    LINCOLN, MA · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · Computer systems design and related services
  3. THE GREENTREE GROUP, INC.$26.3M−100% in FY2026
    BEAVERCREEK, OH · 55% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · 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 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.