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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA received $300K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Since FY2023: $760.4K. Its largest customer was Federal Railroad Administration ($300K). It also received $150K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$300K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 185KFY2023
  2. 315.1KFY2024
  3. -39.7KFY2025
  4. 300KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Railroad Administration$300K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$300K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Abroad$300K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $300K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $300K
  • 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

  1. SUPPORT FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON WHEEL/RAIL INTERFACE RESEARCH THRU NRC'S ICRI INITIATIVE.$600K
    Federal Railroad Administration· Research & development· Sep 26, 2024 – Mar 24, 2026· 693JJ624C000046

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA received $150K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (0 new awards), 0% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 12.431 · Basic Scientific Research ($150K).

Assistance · FY2026
$150K
New awards
0
Actions
1
Since FY2021
$1.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 250KFY2021
  2. 244KFY2022
  3. 108.1KFY2023
  4. 150KFY2024
  5. 150KFY2025
  6. 150KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$150K100%

Top programs

  1. 12.431 · Basic Scientific Research$150K100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of the Army$150K100%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. NEW GRANT$450K
    12.431 · Basic Scientific Research· Department of the Army· Project grant· Jul 29, 2024 – May 8, 2026· W911NF2410214

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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

  1. FORCING FUNCTION LLC$625.9K
    GAITHERSBURG, MD · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Railroad Administration · Scientific research and development services
  2. WABTEC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, LLC$515.6K
    ERIE, PA · 87% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Railroad Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. VTECH B.V.$358.4K0% in FY2026
    ROTTERDAM, NLD · 62% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Railroad Administration · 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.