Federal contractor · BOSTON, MA
METIS DESIGN CORPORATION
METIS DESIGN CORPORATION received $1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 7 awards (−25% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $20.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($749.9K).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $1M
- New awards
- 7
- Sole-source
- 62%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- CKDFRHKKRNY3
- Parent company
- METIS DESIGN CORPORATION
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 4.9MFY2017
- 380.9KFY2018
- 1.3MFY2019
- 2.9MFY2020
- 2.9MFY2021
- 2.1MFY2022
- 3.1MFY2023
- 949.8KFY2024
- 1.4MFY2025
- 1MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Department of the Navy$749.9K72%3 awards
- Department of the Army$295.1K28%1 awards
- 1 awards
- Defense Contract Management Agency-$42.400.0%2 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Research & development$1M100%
Where the work was performed
- Suffolk County, MA$945.1K90%
- Arlington County, VA$99.9K9.6%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition62%US 39% · $650K
- Sole-source awards62%US 30% · $650K
- 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.
Largest awards
- Defense Contract Management Agency· Suffolk County, MA· Research & development· Jul 22, 2020 – Dec 3, 2025· N6833520C0858
- Defense Contract Management Agency· Suffolk County, MA· Research & development· May 21, 2020 – Jan 12, 2026· N6833520C0590
- Department of the Air Force· Suffolk County, MA· Research & development· Feb 2, 2023 – Nov 25, 2025· FA864923P0485
- Department of the Navy· Suffolk County, MA· Research & development· Mar 31, 2025 – Dec 9, 2025· N6833525C0041
- NAILS$999.9KDepartment of the Army· Suffolk County, MA· Research & development· Aug 27, 2024 – Jan 6, 2026· W911W624C0008
- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT$444.2KDepartment of the Navy· Suffolk County, MA· Research & development· Mar 9, 2021 – Mar 6, 2026· N6833521C0006
- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.$239.8KDepartment of the Navy· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· May 13, 2025 – Feb 18, 2026· N6833525C0297
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
- FY2021: $0 paid out · $98.7K received
- FY2023: $0 paid out · $51.2K received
- FY2025: $0 paid out · $200K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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
1 company · $349.8K reported
- AUSTIN, TX · 5 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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.
- MERGE PLOT LLC$3M+46% in FY2026HUNTINGDON VALLEY, PA · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
- RAM LABORATORIES$3M+1,024% in FY2026SAN DIEGO, CA · 79% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
- QDIR, INC.$3.2M−100% in FY2026CHICAGO, IL · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.