Federal contractor · ALEXANDRIA, VA

NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND

NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND received $179M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 253,381 awards (+14% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.5B. Its largest customer was Federal Acquisition Service ($102.8M).

Obligations · FY2026: $179M
New awards: 253,381
Sole-source: 98%
Single offer: 1.7%

UEI: E8QNBC287DY4

Other than small businessNonprofit

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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, $179M in FY2026 together.

NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLINDALEXANDRIA, VA · Family page
Reported parent$179M
NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLINDEARTH CITY, MO
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

133.4MFY2017
140.8MFY2018
145.1MFY2019
132.3MFY2020
124.4MFY2021
143.4MFY2022
158.5MFY2023
216.8MFY2024
157MFY2025
179MFY2026
1MFY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Federal Acquisition Service$102.8M57%
253,198 awards
Defense Logistics Agency$64M36%
113 awards
Defense Contract Management Agency$4.8M2.7%
5 awards
Transportation Security Administration$3.1M1.7%
1 awards
Department of the Air Force$1.9M1.0%
8 awards
Department of the Navy$1.5M0.8%
25 awards
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$455.1K0.3%
10 awards
USTRANSCOM$289.3K0.2%
1 awards
U.S. Coast Guard$232.9K0.1%
2 awards
Defense Commissary Agency$1,5750.0%
4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$170.7M95%
Professional services$8.3M4.7%
Health & medical$4930.0%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100.0%
US 39% · $178.9M
Sole-source awards98%
US 30% · $175.9M
Single-offer competitions1.7%
US 8.7% · $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

Federal Acquisition Service$102.8M
General Services Administration · 253,151 awards
Defense Logistics Agency$64M
Department of Defense · 106 awards
Defense Contract Management Agency$4.8M
Department of Defense · 1 awards
Department of the Air Force$1.9M
Department of Defense · 1 awards
Department of the Navy$1.5M
Department of Defense · 3 awards

Largest awards

8512099013!COAT, ACU, TYPE I, CLASS II,$8M
Defense Logistics Agency· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· May 11, 2026 – May 11, 2026· SPE1C126F4165
8512132313!MATTRESS,INNERSPRIN$7.2M
Defense Logistics Agency· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· May 21, 2026 – May 21, 2026· SPE1C126F4400
8512099014!TROUSERS, ACU, TYPE I, CLASS$4.9M
Defense Logistics Agency· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· May 11, 2026 – May 11, 2026· SPE1C126F4166
CONTRACT CLOSEOUT SUPPORT SERVICES$4.8M
Defense Contract Management Agency· Alexandria city, VA· Professional services· Jun 8, 2026 – Jun 8, 2026· S5121A26FE003
8511603320!SHIRT,COMBAT$4.8M
Defense Logistics Agency· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 27, 2025 – Apr 15, 2026· SPE1C125F5612
8511808096!MATTRESS,INNERSPRIN$4.5M
Defense Logistics Agency· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 16, 2025 – Dec 16, 2025· SPE1C126F1236
8511912322!COAT, ACU, TYPE I, CLASS II,$4M
Defense Logistics Agency· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 12, 2026 – May 8, 2026· SPE1C126F2403
8511742720!COAT, ACU, TYPE I, CLASS II,$3.7M
Defense Logistics Agency· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 7, 2025 – Nov 7, 2025· SPE1C126F0677

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

AMERICAN APPAREL, INC.$121.9M−38% in FY2026
SELMA, AL · 2 entities · 22% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Cut and sew apparel manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing
READYONE INDUSTRIES INC$285.7M−78% in FY2026
EL PASO, TX · 25% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Cut and sew apparel manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturingArmy · Cut and sew apparel manufacturing
FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INC$111.7M−62% in FY2026
WASHINGTON, DC · 20% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Cut and sew apparel manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Converted paper product manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Apparel accessories and other apparel 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 NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLINDAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $365K; 8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $1.3M; $1.3M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$340K
8 reports
2024$366K
8 reports
2025$365K
8 reports
2026$205K
4 reports

Top issues

Government issues28 reports
Defense11 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES28 reports
U.S. SENATE28 reports
Defense - Dept of (DOD)14 reports
Education - Dept of14 reports
Natl Council on Disability14 reports
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)14 reports
White House Office14 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

BRUMIDI GROUP$530K
14 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

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.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 2670 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20244 reports
118th Congress · Became law · 2024
H.R. 2804 · Protecting Small Business Competitions Act of 20261 report
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2026
H.R. 8800 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 report
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2026
S. 2656 · Protecting Small Business Competitions Act of 20251 report
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026

5 of 28 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

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.