Federal contractor · LINCOLN, NE

PEN-LINK, LTD

PEN-LINK, LTD received $20.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 23 awards (+26% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $174.3M. Its largest customer was U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ($11.9M).

Obligations · FY2026
$20.8M
New awards
23
Sole-source
99.6%
Single offer
0.4%
UEI
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Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 10.9MFY2017
  2. 18.5MFY2018
  3. 18MFY2019
  4. 18.4MFY2020
  5. 22.6MFY2021
  6. 17MFY2022
  7. 16.8MFY2023
  8. 14.7MFY2024
  9. 16.5MFY2025
  10. 20.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 5 awards
  2. 4 awards
  3. 2 awards
  4. 1 awards
  5. 1 awards
  6. 1 awards
  7. 1 awards
  8. 2 awards
  9. 1 awards
  10. 3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$21.3M100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $20.8M
  • Sole-source awards99.6%
    US 30% · $20.8M
  • Single-offer competitions0.4%
    US 8.8% · $91K
  • 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 Homeland Security · 3 awards
  2. Department of Justice · 1 awards
  3. Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards
  4. Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards
  5. Department of State · 2 awards

Largest awards

  1. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Lancaster County, NE· IT & telecom· Jun 29, 2022 – Aug 13, 2026· 70CMSD22C00000001
  2. Drug Enforcement Administration· Lancaster County, NE· IT & telecom· May 20, 2024 – Sep 1, 2026· 15DDHQ24P00000493
  3. Drug Enforcement Administration· Lancaster County, NE· IT & telecom· Jun 30, 2022 – Jun 29, 2026· 15DDHQ22P00000562
  4. U.S. Marshals Service· Lancaster County, NE· Equipment maintenance· Aug 26, 2020 – Apr 30, 2026· 15M10320PA4100159
  5. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Lancaster County, NE· IT & telecom· Sep 16, 2025 – Dec 11, 2025· 70CMSD25P00000138
  6. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Lancaster County, NE· IT & telecom· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 70CMSD26FR0000187
  7. U.S. Customs and Border Protection· Loudoun County, VA· IT & telecom· Sep 29, 2026 – Sep 29, 2026· 70B03C26P00000539
  8. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Lancaster County, NE· IT & telecom· Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· 70CMSD26FR0000181

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-contracts: $1.6M (3 subawards)

2 primes

  1. RESTON, VA · 2 subawards
  2. PERATON INC.$322.5K20%
    HERNDON, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $3.5M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.3M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.6M 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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

4 companies · $6.4M reported

  1. ARLINGTON, VA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services
  2. CHANTILLY, VA · 4 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. MCLEAN, VA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 34 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. PRESIDIO GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS LLC$59.9M−45% in FY2026
    RESTON, VA · 36% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDrug Enforcement Administration · Computer systems design and related servicesInternal Revenue Service · Computer systems design and related services
  2. ASHBURN, VA · 27% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Software publishersInternal Revenue Service · Computer systems design and related services
  3. JSI TELECOM INC.$78.9M−68% in FY2026
    CHANTILLY, VA · 2 entities · 36% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDrug Enforcement Administration · Computer systems design and related servicesDrug Enforcement Administration · Communications equipment manufacturing

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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.

Matched organizations

  • PEN-LINK LTDAI match · 100%

PACs sponsored

  • PEN - LINK LTD PAC (PEN-LINK PAC)$0 raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.