Federal contractor · SILVER SPRING, MD

PALLADIAN PARTNERS, INC.

PALLADIAN PARTNERS, INC. received $985K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 16 awards (−71% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $219.7M. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($2M).

Obligations · FY2026
$985K
New awards
16
Sole-source
17%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
ALTARUM INSTITUTE
Small business
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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, $6.5M in FY2026 together.

  1. PALLADIAN PARTNERS, INC.SILVER SPRING, MD · Family page
    $985K
  2. ALTARUM INSTITUTEANN ARBOR, MI
    $5.5M

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 22.6MFY2017
  2. 20MFY2018
  3. 25.2MFY2019
  4. 28.3MFY2020
  5. 31.6MFY2021
  6. 32.8MFY2022
  7. 31.4MFY2023
  8. 23.4MFY2024
  9. 3.4MFY2025
  10. 985KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institutes of Health$2M100%
    12 awards
  2. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$166.6K17%
    1 awards
  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-$1.2M0.0%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$985K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, MD$1M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · -$2.5M
  • Sole-source awards17%
    US 30% · $166.6K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · -$2.6M
  • 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. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$166.6K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. PALLADIAN PARTNERS INC:1108361 [19-002119]$36M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Feb 27, 2019 – Jun 8, 2026· 75N98019F00847
  2. OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC LIAISON COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT AND OUTREACH CONTRACT$12.8M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Apr 11, 2019 – Jun 1, 2026· 75N98019F00849
  3. COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH SUPPORT ACTIVITIES DISTRIBUTED TO SCIENTIFIC, PROVIDER, AND PUBLIC AUDIENCES$10.2M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Sep 21, 2021 – Feb 13, 2026· 75N94021F00177
  4. DHDSP MILLION HEARTS COMMUNICATIONS ACTIVITIES SUPPORT SERVICES$9.4M
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Aug 25, 2020 – Jun 10, 2026· 75D30120F09197
  5. BPA ORDER TITLED "CONTENT DEVELOPMENT AND GRAPHIC/MEDICAL ARTS, IMAGING, AND BRAND MANAGEMENT" AGAINST THE NHLBI OSPEEC BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT (BPA) TASK AREA 2.$7.9M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Sep 14, 2020 – Dec 10, 2025· 75N92020F00001
  6. PALLADIAN PARTNERS INC:1108361 [24-002735]$3.9M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Sep 4, 2024 – May 28, 2026· 75N98024F00001
  7. HEALTH COMMUNICATION FOR THE DIVISION FOR HEART DISEASE AND STROKE PREVENTION$2.3M
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· DeKalb County, GA· Professional services· Aug 24, 2026 – Aug 24, 2026· HHSD2002007206450002
  8. SAFE TO SLEEP CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT AND OUTREACH$1.3M
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 75N98026F00003

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

28 companies · $13.1M reported

  1. DATASTAT INC.$3.4M
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 4 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. WESTAT, INC.$2.1M
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 2 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1.3M
    EVANSTON, IL · 3 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Primes that pay it

14 companies · $12.9M reported

  1. KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT$2.6M
    TOPEKA, KS · 3 subawards
  2. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1.8M
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 3 subawards
  3. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS$1.4M
    ITASCA, IL · 14 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 13 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. IQ SOLUTIONS, INC.$56M−80% in FY2026
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 48% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishersNational Institutes of Health · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesNational Institutes of Health · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers
  2. RIPPLE EFFECT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.$37.6M+80% in FY2026
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 32% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Health Agency · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesNational Institutes of Health · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. ZYGOS CONSULTING LLC$9.6M−62% in FY2026
    ARLINGTON, VA · 18% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Health Agency · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 PALLADIAN PARTNERS, INC. (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Palladian Partners, Inc.,AI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2025
$50K
1 reports
Lobbying · 2024–2025
$100K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2024$50K
    1 reports
  2. 2025$50K
    1 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations2 reports
  2. Health issues2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES2 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE2 reports
  3. Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)1 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. Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (FKA Hogan Lovells US LLP)$100K
    2 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

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.