Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

MORNINGSTAR INC

MORNINGSTAR INC received $1.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−26% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $14.1M. Its largest customer was Securities and Exchange Commission ($1.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.4M
New awards
6
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small business

Company family

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

Part of the PITCHBOOK DATA INC company family: 3 registered entities, $7.5M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. PITCHBOOK DATA INCSEATTLE, WA · Family page
    $6.1M
  2. $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-30

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.2MFY2017
  2. 1.2MFY2018
  3. 1.2MFY2019
  4. 1.1MFY2020
  5. 1.3MFY2021
  6. 1.5MFY2022
  7. 1.8MFY2023
  8. 1.6MFY2024
  9. 1.9MFY2025
  10. 1.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 2 awards
  2. 2 awards
  3. 1 awards
  4. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$1.3M93%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$100.8K7.1%
  3. Professional services$4,4000.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cook County, IL$287.2K20%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $1.4M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $1.4M
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of Labor · 1 awards
  2. Department of the Treasury · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Securities and Exchange Commission· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Jun 29, 2022 – Jun 10, 2026· 50310222P0036
  2. Bureau of the Fiscal Service· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· May 14, 2021 – May 29, 2026· 20341521P00011
  3. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 23, 2021 – Jun 9, 2026· 1605C121P00028
  4. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management· Cook County, IL· IT & telecom· Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 1605C126P00020
  5. Treasury Common Services Center· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 2099CJ26C00003
  6. Securities and Exchange Commission· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Apr 29, 2025 – Jun 8, 2026· 50310225P0015

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 · $7.2M reported

  1. PASCAGOULA, MS · 4 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  2. RESTON, VA · 4 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  3. MC LEAN, VA · 3 subawards · Other professional, scientific, and technical services

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

  1. WASHINGTON, DC · 15% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSecurities and Exchange Commission · Data processing, hosting, and related services
  2. BEAVERCREEK, OH · 7.9% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesAir Force · Computer systems design and related services
  3. KAPSUUN GROUP, LLC$6M−204% in FY2026
    LORTON, VA · 8.2% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesAir Force · 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 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.