Federal contractor · RAHWAY, NJ

MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC

MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC received $445.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 35 awards (−91% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $4.2B. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($239.5K).

Obligations · FY2026: $445.3K
New awards: 35
Sole-source: 43%
Single offer: 57%

UEI: FCFDA78HKKG2
Parent company: MERCK & CO., INC.

Other than small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $1.2M in FY2026 together.

MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLCRAHWAY, NJ · Family page
Reported parent$445.3K
BIOMARK LLCBOISE, ID
Reported parent$712.6K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

1BFY2017
520MFY2018
26.7MFY2019
170.6MFY2020
1.3BFY2021
995.9MFY2022
34.5MFY2023
154.8MFY2024
5.2MFY2025
445.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of Veterans Affairs$239.5K54%
28 awards
Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$190.5K43%
2 awards
Federal Bureau of Investigation$18K4.0%
1 awards
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$00.0%
1 awards
Defense Threat Reduction Agency$00.0%
1 awards
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration-$2,6130.0%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Health & medical$445.3K100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $445.3K
Sole-source awards43%
US 30% · $190.5K
Single-offer competitions57%
US 8.7% · $254.9K
Urgency justifications9.7%
US 5.1% · $43.2K

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

IGF::OT::IGF$236.3M
Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response· Hunterdon County, NJ· Health & medical· Sep 28, 2017 – Aug 5, 2026· HHSO100201700012C
ERVEBO PROCUREMENT$156M
Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response· Union County, NJ· Health & medical· Sep 27, 2024 – Sep 10, 2026· 75A50124C00057
BASE PERIOD - PSC: AN12$8.3M
Defense Threat Reduction Agency· Montgomery County, PA· Research & development· Oct 31, 2016 – Apr 29, 2026· HDTRA115C0058
VACCINE STORAGE AND ROTATION, 2021-2026$6.4M
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Union County, NJ· Professional services· Aug 31, 2021 – Jun 9, 2026· 75D30121F00001
WINREVAIR 45MG/VIAL INJ,LYPHL$342.3K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Shelby County, TN· Health & medical· May 11, 2026 – May 11, 2026· 36C26026F0282
EMERGENCY WINREVAIR$336.6K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Shelby County, TN· Health & medical· Mar 10, 2025 – Apr 16, 2026· 36C26225F0329
WINREVAIR (SOTATERCEPT-CSRK)$168K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Shelby County, TN· Health & medical· Feb 6, 2025 – Jun 23, 2026· 36C26025F0148
MERCK VACCINES FOR STOCK$124.3K
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration· Hunterdon County, NJ· Health & medical· Nov 16, 2017 – Mar 11, 2026· HHSP284201800044G

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: $11.5M (2 subawards)

2 primes

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$8M70%
BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward
STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES$3.4M30%
MADISON, WI · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2022: $0 paid out · $308.7K received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $11.5M 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

5 companies · $13.5M reported

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$8M
LAUREL, MD · 1 subaward
STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES$3.4M
MADISON, WI · 1 subaward
SPECIES CONSERVATION, OFFICE OF$1.6M
BOISE, ID · 5 subawards

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

ELUSYS THERAPEUTICS INC$123.9M−100% in FY2026
PARSIPPANY, NJ · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffice of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing
PHLOW CORP.$204.8M+1,158% in FY2026
RICHMOND, VA · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffice of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing
PARTNER THERAPEUTICS, INC.$124.5M+28% in FY2026
LEXINGTON, MA · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffice of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing

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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.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

MERCK & CO., INC.AI match · 100%
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $11M; 48 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $36.6M; $36.6M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026: $434K; 1 PAC

Lobbying by year

2023$10M
43 reports
2024$9.2M
41 reports
2025$11M
48 reports
2026$6.4M
22 reports

Top issues

Medicare and Medicaid122 reports
Health issues102 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code58 reports
Trade (domestic and foreign)38 reports
Budget and appropriations14 reports
Copyright, patent and trademark14 reports
Pharmacy9 reports
Animals6 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES122 reports
U.S. SENATE119 reports
Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)11 reports
Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)10 reports
Executive Office of the President (EOP)10 reports
White House Office9 reports
Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)7 reports
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)6 reports
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)6 reports
Commerce - Dept of (DOC)3 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Tiber Creek Group$700K
14 reports
Williams and Jensen, PLLC$700K
14 reports
Avenue Solutions$700K
14 reports
W Strategies, LLC$700K
14 reports
Tiber Creek Health Strategies, Inc.$700K
14 reports
Crossroads Strategies, LLC$560K
14 reports
Todd Strategy Group$480K
14 reports
The Nickles Group, LLC$340K
6 reports

14 firms in all. Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Republican$281.5K65%
Democratic$152.5K35%

PACs sponsored

MERCK & CO., INC., EMPLOYEES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (MERCK PAC)$1.3M raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2026 cycle

Tom Emmer$10K
R-MN-6 · House · 1 PAC
Brett Guthrie$10K
R-KY-2 · House · 1 PAC
Josh Gottheimer$10K
D-NJ-5 · House · 1 PAC
Richard Hudson$10K
R-NC-9 · House · 1 PAC
Mike Johnson$10K
R-LA-4 · House · 1 PAC
Roger Marshall$10K
R-KS · Senate · 1 PAC
Steve Scalise$10K
R-LA-1 · House · 1 PAC
Mike Kelly$9,000
R-PA-16 · House · 1 PAC
Brian K. Fitzpatrick$8,500
R-PA-1 · House · 1 PAC
John Joyce$8,000
R-PA-13 · House · 1 PAC

$425.5K of the $434K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 110 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Marsha Blackburn$10K
R-TN · Senate · 1 PAC
John Barrasso$10K
R-WY · Senate · 1 PAC
Lisa Blunt Rochester$10K
D-DE · Senate · 1 PAC
Robert P. Casey, Jr.$10K
D-PA · Senate · 1 PAC
J. Luis Correa$10K
D-CA-46 · House · 1 PAC

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

S. 1339 · Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act19 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2026
H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.19 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025–2026
H.R. 5376 · Inflation Reduction Act of 202215 reports
117th Congress · Became law · 2023–2025
S. 1355 · PASTEUR Act of 202315 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
H.R. 5378 · Lower Costs, More Transparency Act13 reports

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

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.