Federal contractor · NORFOLK, VA

NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY

NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY received $39.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (−80% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $366.3K. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($39.8K). It also received $44.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$39.8K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
XAHKEJAWL1N6
Parent company
VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Other than small businessNonprofitEducational institution
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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.

Part of the VCU HEALTH SYSTEM AUTHORITY company family: 3 registered entities, $147.1K in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. VCU HEALTH SYSTEM AUTHORITYRICHMOND, VA · Family page
    $107.3K
  2. VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITYPETERSBURG, VA
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. -28.8KFY2019
  2. -6.8KFY2021
  3. 28.1KFY2022
  4. 27KFY2023
  5. 104.6KFY2024
  6. 202.4KFY2025
  7. 39.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$39.8K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$39.8K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Norfolk city, VA$39.8K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $39.8K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $39.8K
  • 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 the Navy$39.8K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SPRING SEMESTER Q2 FY 26 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION ANDALLOWBALE FEES$39.8K
    Department of the Navy· Norfolk city, VA· Education & social services· Feb 27, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026· N3560A26FB141

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.

NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY received $44.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 188 actions (8 new awards), −9.7% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($26.1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$44.2M
New awards
8
Actions
188
Since FY2021
$313M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 106MFY2021
  2. 25.1MFY2022
  3. 44.5MFY2023
  4. 44.4MFY2024
  5. 48.9MFY2025
  6. 44.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$27.3M62%
  2. Grants$16.9M38%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$26.1M59%
  2. 84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid$10.6M24%
  3. 47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)$5M11%
  4. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$669.3K1.5%
  5. 84.042 · Trio Student Support Services$562.8K1.3%
  6. 47.083 · Integrative Activities$519.9K1.2%
  7. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$452.4K1.0%
  8. 84.047 · Trio Upward Bound$309.4K0.7%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$38.8M88%
  2. National Science Foundation$5.6M13%

Largest awards

  1. HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM$37.7M
    84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid· Department of Education· Project grant· Aug 3, 2022 – Aug 29, 2026· P031B220006
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$26.4M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 26, 2025 – Sep 17, 2026· P063P250411
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$24.9M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 28, 2024 – Jun 30, 2026· P063P240411
  4. GRANT PROGRAM$12.3M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 10, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026· P063P260411
  5. CREST CENTER FOR EMERGENT CHIRAL QUANTUM MATTER -THE NSF CENTERS FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CREST) PROGRAM SUPPORTS…$5M
    47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)· National Science Foundation· Project grant· Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 4, 2026· 2629582
  6. STRENGTHENING HISTORICALLY BLACK GRADUATE INSTITUTIONS$4.8M
    84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid· Department of Education· Project grant· Jul 31, 2024 – Sep 3, 2026· P031K240008

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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-grants: $1.2M (6 subawards)

5 primes

  1. VA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$602.1K49%
    RICHMOND, VA · 2 subawards
  2. SOCIAL SERVICES, VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF$326.6K26%
    GLEN ALLEN, VA · 1 subaward
  3. FORT LEWIS COLLEGE$153.4K12%
    DURANGO, CO · 1 subaward
  4. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA$106.6K8.6%
    SANTA BARBARA, CA · 1 subaward
  5. NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$50K4.0%
    AMHERST, MA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $929.3K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $975.1K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $2.4M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $325.8K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.2M 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

36 companies · $162.4M reported

  1. EMERGENCY MGMT DEPARTMENT OF$137.2M
    RICHMOND, VA · 14 subawards
  2. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION$4.5M
    RICHMOND, VA · 13 subawards
  3. VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$4.5M
    RICHMOND, VA · 8 subawards

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

  1. WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY$474K−17% in FY2026
    HATTIESBURG, MS · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schoolsArmy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  2. WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER M.D. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$351.3K−49% in FY2026
    KALAMAZOO, MI · 44% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  3. THE NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY$341.8K−47% in FY2026
    BOSTON, MA · 43% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools

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.

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.