Federal contractor · NAPERVILLE, IL

NALCO COMPANY LLC

NALCO COMPANY LLC received $2.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 30 awards (−43% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $23.6M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($1.4M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.3M
New awards
30
Sole-source
24%
Single offer
55%
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.

11 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $4.9M in FY2026 together.

  1. NALCO COMPANY LLCNAPERVILLE, IL · Family page
    $2.3M
  2. ECOLAB INCSAINT PAUL, MN
    $1.8M
  3. $446.2K
  4. $259.9K
  5. ECOLAB INC.HORSHAM, PA
    $100.2K
  6. $0
  7. ECOLAB S.A.HALANDRI, GRC
    $0
  8. G C S SERVICE INCSAINT PAUL, MN
    $0
  9. $0
  10. $0
  11. $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 24.3KFY2017
  2. 25.5KFY2018
  3. 83.1KFY2019
  4. 770.4KFY2020
  5. 3MFY2021
  6. 3.9MFY2022
  7. 4.9MFY2023
  8. 4.5MFY2024
  9. 4MFY2025
  10. 2.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 15 awards
  2. 1 awards
  3. 1 awards
  4. 1 awards
  5. 1 awards
  6. 9 awards
  7. 1 awards
  8. Forest Service$19.4K0.8%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$608.8K27%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$520.5K23%
  3. Professional services$399.4K18%
  4. Facilities & utilities$378.1K17%
  5. Construction & real property$375.4K16%

Where the work was performed

  1. 72$164.7K7.2%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition80%
    US 39% · $1.8M
  • Sole-source awards24%
    US 30% · $557.8K
  • Single-offer competitions55%
    US 8.7% · $1.3M
  • 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 Veterans Affairs · 3 awards
  2. Department of Justice · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Federal Bureau of Investigation· DuPage County, IL· Construction & real property· Jan 26, 2023 – Aug 12, 2026· 15F06723F0000236
  2. Social Security Administration· Baltimore city, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 1, 2021 – Jul 17, 2026· 28321321FDX030169
  3. Department of the Air Force· Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 21, 2022 – Jan 20, 2026· FA500422C0006
  4. Department of Veterans Affairs· Professional services· Apr 5, 2023 – May 21, 2026· 36C24823P1129
  5. Department of Veterans Affairs· Bernalillo County, NM· Equipment maintenance· Oct 1, 2023 – Mar 12, 2026· 36C26224F0002
  6. Department of Veterans Affairs· Hennepin County, MN· Professional services· Jul 17, 2023 – Jun 25, 2026· 36C26323P0721
  7. Department of Veterans Affairs· Fayette County, KY· Equipment maintenance· Nov 30, 2022 – Oct 1, 2025· 36C24923F0023
  8. Department of Veterans Affairs· Jefferson County, AL· Facilities & utilities· Mar 22, 2024 – Jun 30, 2026· 36C24724P0601

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-contracts: $528.4K (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. TULLAHOMA, TN · 1 subaward
  2. COLUMBUS, OH · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $814.4K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $309.8K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $682.5K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $972.1K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $528.4K 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

12 companies · $6.2M reported

  1. GERMANTOWN, MD · 9 subawards · Facilities support services
  2. GREENVILLE, SC · 1 subaward · Facilities support services
  3. FAIRFIELD, NJ · 2 subawards · Facilities support 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 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 57 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. APPLIED ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CORP$5.2M+111% in FY2026
    BURTON, TX · 18% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other chemical product and preparation manufacturingAir Force · Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing
  2. ALTON, IL · 14% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing
  3. HANWHA DEFENSE USA, INC.$4.7M+2.4% in FY2026
    MC LEAN, VA · 15% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing

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 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 NALCO COMPANY LLC (11 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • ECOLAB INC.AI match · 100%
  • Nalco CompanyAI match · 96%
Lobbying · 2025
$1.7M
16 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$5.1M
$5.1M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$115.5K
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$1.1M
    14 reports
  2. 2024$1.4M
    16 reports
  3. 2025$1.7M
    16 reports
  4. 2026$950K
    8 reports

Top issues

  1. Environment and Superfund48 reports
  2. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code36 reports
  3. Energy and nuclear19 reports
  4. Trade (domestic and foreign)19 reports
  5. Pharmacy10 reports
  6. Transportation9 reports
  7. Chemicals and chemical industry5 reports
  8. Consumer issues, safety and products2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES53 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE53 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Invariant LLC$840K
    14 reports
  2. OGR$700K
    14 reports
  3. HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$450K
    6 reports
  4. Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)$360K
    6 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$64.5K56%
  2. Democratic$48.5K42%
  3. Other or none$2,5002.2%

PACs sponsored

  • ECOLAB INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$233K 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.

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.