Federal contractor · BELMONT, CA

MSB ASSOCIATES

MSB ASSOCIATES received $895.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Since FY2021: $2.6M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($895.8K).

Obligations · FY2026
$895.8K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
EDTGFGWLMVY7
Parent company
MSB ASSOCIATES
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 247.3KFY2021
  2. 975.7KFY2022
  3. 518.5KFY2023
  4. 0FY2025
  5. 895.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$895.8K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$895.8K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. San Mateo County, CA$895.8K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $895.8K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.8% · $895.8K
  • 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. DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECT AGENCY (DARPA) SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE II FOR COMPARTMENTALISED CHROME DEMONSTRATOR (CCD).$895.8K
    Department of the Army· San Mateo County, CA· Research & development· Feb 9, 2026 – May 29, 2026· W912CG26CA006

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 · $168K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $146.1K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $270.6K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $862.3K 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 · $1.4M reported

  1. SRI INTERNATIONAL$1.4M
    MENLO PARK, CA · 4 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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. UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO$932.6K−79% in FY2026
    MAYAGUEZ, PR · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE$944.2K
    BERKELEY, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. CLEAR SCIENTIFIC, LLC$1M
    CAMBRIDGE, MA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.