Federal contractor · BISMARCK, ND

NORTHERN PLAINS LABORATORY LLC

NORTHERN PLAINS LABORATORY LLC received $5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 50 awards (+7.5% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $40M. Its largest customer was Indian Health Service ($5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$5M
New awards
50
Sole-source
0.7%
Single offer
0.2%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 4.8MFY2017
  2. 3.9MFY2018
  3. 3.8MFY2019
  4. 3.3MFY2020
  5. 3.7MFY2021
  6. 3.1MFY2022
  7. 4.3MFY2023
  8. 3.5MFY2024
  9. 4.6MFY2025
  10. 5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Indian Health Service$5M99.8%
    49 awards
  2. Department of the Army$10K0.2%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Health & medical$4.9M98%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$77K1.6%

Where the work was performed

  1. Oglala Lakota County, SD$1.6M33%
  2. Dewey County, SD$789.8K16%
  3. Todd County, SD$739.3K15%
  4. Rolette County, ND$582.3K12%
  5. Sioux County, ND$266.9K5.4%
  6. Buffalo County, SD$261K5.3%
  7. Roberts County, SD$240.8K4.9%
  8. Charles Mix County, SD$213.7K4.3%
  9. Lyman County, SD$147K3.0%
  10. Corson County, SD$52.9K1.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.9%
    US 39% · $45K
  • Sole-source awards0.7%
    US 30% · $35K
  • Single-offer competitions0.2%
    US 8.7% · $10K
  • 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. Indian Health Service$35K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING AND PATHOLOGY SERVICES. PPA# GPA-26-PD08-0236$445.9K
    Indian Health Service· Oglala Lakota County, SD· Health & medical· Mar 31, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026· 75H70626F03159
  2. TASK ORDER NO. 75H70625F03135 TO PROVIDE REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING & PATHOLOGY SITE VISITS FOR THE PINE RIDGE INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE HOSPITAL, KYLE HEALTH CENTER, AND WANBLEE HEALTH CENTER.$382.2K
    Indian Health Service· Oglala Lakota County, SD· Health & medical· Jul 28, 2025 – Jan 16, 2026· 75H70625F03135
  3. TASK ORDER WITH NORTHERN PLAINS LABORATORY, LLC TO PROVIDE REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING AND PATHOLOGY SERVICES FOR SISSETON, SD$345.9K
    Indian Health Service· Roberts County, SD· Health & medical· Feb 26, 2026 – Feb 26, 2026· 75H70626F03155
  4. TASK ORDER FOR REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING AND PATHOLOGIST SERVICES FOR 03/05/2026 - 07/31/2026$302.4K
    Indian Health Service· Todd County, SD· Health & medical· Feb 26, 2026 – Feb 26, 2026· 75H70626F03154
  5. FIRM-FIXED-PRICE TASK ORDER FOR REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING AND PATHOLOGIST SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF THE PINE RIDGE SERVICE UNIT, INCLUDING PINE RIDGE, KYLE, AND WANBLEE, UNDER CONTRACT NO. 75H70623D00014 FOR THE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE JULY 1, 2026 THR$298.5K
    Indian Health Service· Oglala Lakota County, SD· Health & medical· Jun 30, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026· 75H70626F03003
  6. TASK ORDER 75H70626F3167 TO ID/IQ 75H70623D00014 NORTHERN PLAINS LABORATORY LCC TO PROVIDE REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING & PATHOLOGY SERVICE TO THE PINE RIDGE INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE UNIT, WANBLEE HEALTH CENTER, AND KYLE HEALTH CENTER.$298.5K
    Indian Health Service· Oglala Lakota County, SD· Health & medical· Aug 3, 2026 – Aug 3, 2026· 75H70626F03167
  7. REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING AND PATHOLOGIST CONSULTANT SITE VISITS$241.9K
    Indian Health Service· Todd County, SD· Health & medical· Jul 9, 2026 – Jul 9, 2026· 75H70626F03162
  8. REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING AND PATHOLOGY SERVICES FOR THE IHS PINE RIDGE SERVICE UNIT, KYLE HEALTH CENTER, AND WANBLEE HEALTH CENTER.$237.3K
    Indian Health Service· Oglala Lakota County, SD· Health & medical· May 30, 2025 – Mar 19, 2026· 75H70625F03131

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.

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

1 company · $31.5K reported

  1. NORTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES$31.5K
    BISMARCK, ND · 1 subaward

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

  1. SONORA QUEST LABORATORIES LLC$13.4M−3.2% in FY2026
    TEMPE, AZ · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveIndian Health Service · Medical and diagnostic laboratories
  2. DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING ASSOCIATES, INC.$10.8M+54% in FY2026
    TULSA, OK · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveIndian Health Service · Medical and diagnostic laboratories
  3. LABCORP OKLAHOMA INC$5M−110% in FY2026
    TULSA, OK · 38% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveIndian Health Service · Medical and diagnostic laboratories

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.