Federal contractor · WASHINGTON, DC

L&M POLICY RESEARCH, LLC

L&M POLICY RESEARCH, LLC received $1.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−30% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $62M. Its largest customer was Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ($1.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.6M
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
71%
UEI
MND7PS5E28D5
Small businessWoman-ownedMinority-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.7MFY2017
  2. 3.8MFY2018
  3. 6.3MFY2019
  4. 7.1MFY2020
  5. 12.8MFY2021
  6. 6.1MFY2022
  7. 8.2MFY2023
  8. 10MFY2024
  9. 2.3MFY2025
  10. 1.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services$1.6M100%
    5 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$1.6M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$2.7M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition71%
    US 39% · $1.2M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions71%
    US 8.7% · $1.2M
  • 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

  1. MEDICARE FEE-FOR-SERVICE (FFS) - PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE (PFS)/OUTPATIENT PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM (OPPS) AND MEDICARE ADVANTAGE (PART C)/ PRESCRIPTION DRUG (PART D) PUBLIC COMMENT SUPPORT$9.4M
    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Jun 1, 2022 – May 1, 2026· 75FCMC22F0040
  2. RESEARCH TO SUPPORT MEDICARE AND INNOVATIONS COMMUNICATION$2.2M
    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 24, 2025 – May 14, 2026· 75FCMC25FJ138
  3. SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION MONITORING AND EVALUATION SUPPORT (DMES). TO PROVIDE MONITORING AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 1115 OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.$2M
    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services· Baltimore County, MD· Professional services· Aug 15, 2018 – Apr 27, 2026· 75FCMC18F0001
  4. RESEARCH TO SUPPORT MEDICARE DECISION-MAKING TOOLS AND INFORMATION$1.9M
    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services· Baltimore County, MD· Professional services· Sep 23, 2025 – Aug 28, 2026· 75FCMC25FJ102
  5. CONSUMER RESEARCH ON COMMUNICATING COVERAGE, CHOICE AND QUALITY$1.2M
    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 26, 2024 – Sep 4, 2026· 75FCMC24F0235

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: $1.1M (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. ABT GLOBAL LLC$1.1M100%
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $21K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $275.1K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.1M 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

2 companies · $2.7M reported

  1. NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER$1.4M
    CHICAGO, IL · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  2. ABT GLOBAL LLC$1.3M
    CAMBRIDGE, MA · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. EMENDATA LLC$10.1M
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 73% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  2. CHAGS HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LLC$13.8M−46% in FY2026
    COLUMBIA, MD · 79% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  3. ALAN S. NEWMAN ASSOCIATES, INC.$8.6M−21% in FY2026
    RICHMOND, VA · 62% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Other professional, scientific, and technical 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.