Federal contractor · SAULT SAINTE MARIE, MI

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY received $278.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−0.6% vs FY2025). Since FY2024: $651.4K. Its largest customer was U.S. Coast Guard ($278.5K). It also received $2.9M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$278.5K
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
11%
UEI
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Other than small businessEducational institutionGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 92.7KFY2024
  2. 280.2KFY2025
  3. 278.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. U.S. Coast Guard$278.5K100%
    4 awards
  2. Department of the Army$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$278.5K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$247.7K89%
  2. Chippewa County, MI$30.8K11%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition11%
    US 39% · $30.8K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions11%
    US 8.7% · $30.8K
  • 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. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO CONDUCT AND ADVANCE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING, AND EVALUATION OF OIL SPILL RESPONSE KNOWLEDGE, TECHNIQUES, AND TACTICS IN FRESHWATER AND ICY WATER ENVIRONMENTS$250K
    U.S. Coast Guard· Houghton County, MI· Research & development· Dec 20, 2024 – Jan 20, 2026· 70Z02325CMER00001
  2. BAA FY26 THEME SELECTION LSSU$247.7K
    U.S. Coast Guard· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 70Z02326CMER00002
  3. IJC SAINT MARYS RAPIDS - ESTABLISH BIOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE METRICS$92.7K
    Department of the Army· Chippewa County, MI· Professional services· Feb 15, 2024 – Dec 24, 2025· W912HQ24P0008
  4. FY26 CADET INTERNSHIP PROGRAM$30.8K
    U.S. Coast Guard· Chippewa County, MI· Research & development· May 21, 2026 – May 21, 2026· 70Z02326FMER30001
  5. OBLIGATED FUNDS FOR BASE YEAR FOR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM POP: 12 MAY 2025 - 11 MAY 2026. ALL CONDITIONS AND TERMS OF THIS CALL ORDER SHALL BE IAW BPA 70Z02325AMER30001.$30.2K
    U.S. Coast Guard· Chippewa County, MI· Research & development· May 21, 2025 – Nov 5, 2025· 70Z02325FMER30001

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.

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY received $2.9M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 98 actions (9 new awards), −14% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($2.4M).

Assistance · FY2026
$2.9M
New awards
9
Actions
98
Since FY2021
$23M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 8.7MFY2021
  2. 1.6MFY2022
  3. 3.2MFY2023
  4. 3.3MFY2024
  5. 3.4MFY2025
  6. 2.9MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$2.8M96%
  2. Grants$126.5K4.3%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$2.4M84%
  2. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$272K9.3%
  3. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$68.3K2.3%
  4. 12.630 · Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering$67K2.3%
  5. 15.657 · Endangered Species Recovery Implementation$49.8K1.7%
  6. 15.687 · Great Lakes Sea Lamprey Control$9,7700.3%
  7. 84.379 · Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grants (Teach GRANTS)$7,5440.3%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$2.8M96%
  2. Department of the Army$67K2.3%
    Department of Defense
  3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$59.5K2.0%
    Department of the Interior

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$3.1M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 15, 2024 – Oct 1, 2025· P063P240235
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$2.7M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 19, 2025 – Jul 21, 2026· P063P250235
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$810.3K
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 19, 2026 – Sep 17, 2026· P063P260235
  4. CAMPUS BASED-FWS$272K
    84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P033A262029
  5. LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY WILL PRODUCE: A REPLICABLE, TESTED ARCHIVAL LITERACY MODULE EMBEDDED IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION; AN…$75.7K
    45.312 · National Leadership Grants· Institute of Museum and Library Services· Project grant· Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 4, 2026· LG-260728-OLS-26
  6. CAMPUS BASED-FSEOG$68.3K
    84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P007A262029

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: $201.5K (3 subawards)

3 primes

  1. CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$105.1K52%
    MOUNT PLEASANT, MI · 1 subaward
  2. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$64.4K32%
    LANSING, MI · 1 subaward
  3. STATE OF MICHIGAN$32K16%
    DIMONDALE, MI · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $113.1K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $115.6K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $172.5K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $766.1K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $559.2K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $201.5K 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

6 companies · $1.9M reported

  1. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$815.1K
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 2 subawards
  2. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$613.7K
    LANSING, MI · 6 subawards
  3. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY$189.5K
    OKEMOS, MI · 1 subaward

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

  1. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL DU DEVELOPPEMENT DURABL$534.9K+581% in FY2026
    WINNIPEG, CAN · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Scientific research and development services
  2. AMERICAN ROBOTICS, INC.$167.9K
    WALTHAM, MA · 26% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Scientific research and development services
  3. UNITED STATES COAST GUARD ACADEMY SPONSORED PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH, INC$600.1K−86% in FY2026
    NEW LONDON, CT · 38% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Scientific research and development 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.