Federal contractor · HARRISBURG, PA

PENNSYLVANIA DEPT OF EDUCATION

PENNSYLVANIA DEPT OF EDUCATION received $199K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+68% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.5M. Its largest customer was Department of Education ($199K). It also received $2.4B in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$199K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
Other than small businessGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 147.4KFY2017
  2. 133.6KFY2018
  3. 81.9KFY2019
  4. 200KFY2020
  5. 159.6KFY2021
  6. 151.1KFY2022
  7. 177.4KFY2023
  8. 175.2KFY2024
  9. 118.2KFY2025
  10. 199KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Education$199K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$199K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Dauphin County, PA$199K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $199K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $199K
  • 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. PENNSYLVANIA - NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS (NAEP) STATE COORDINATOR$330.1K
    Department of Education· Dauphin County, PA· Professional services· Mar 31, 2025 – Jul 23, 2026· 91990025C0063

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.

PENNSYLVANIA DEPT OF EDUCATION received $2.4B in federal assistance in FY2026, on 88 actions (28 new awards), −5% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.555 · National School Lunch Program ($831.1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$2.4B
New awards
28
Actions
88
Since FY2021
$14.8B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2BFY2021
  2. 2.7BFY2022
  3. 2.7BFY2023
  4. 2.4BFY2024
  5. 2.6BFY2025
  6. 2.4BFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$2.4B100%

Top programs

  1. 10.555 · National School Lunch Program$831.1M34%
  2. 84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies$750.4M31%
  3. 84.027 · Special Education Grants to States$523.5M21%
  4. 84.367 · Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (Formerly Improving Teacher Quality State GRANTS)$72.1M3.0%
  5. 84.424 · Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program$53.8M2.2%
  6. 84.287 · Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers$51.9M2.1%
  7. 84.048 · Career and Technical Education -- Basic Grants to States$50.9M2.1%
  8. 84.002 · Adult Education - Basic Grants to States$20.7M0.8%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$1.5B62%
  2. Food and Nutrition Service$856.8M35%
    Department of Agriculture
  3. Employment and Training Administration$71.6M2.9%
    Department of Labor

Largest awards

  1. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$840.7M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Nov 12, 2024 – May 27, 2026· 251PA305N1199
  2. TITLE I PART A BASIC GRANTS TO LEAS$742.9M
    84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· S010A250038
  3. TITLE I PART A BASIC GRANTS TO LEAS$660.9M
    84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies· Department of Education· Formula grant· Oct 1, 2020 – May 5, 2026· S010A200038
  4. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$582.4M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 15, 2025 – Aug 25, 2026· 261PA305N1199
  5. STATE GRANT - B (611)$518.9M
    84.027 · Special Education Grants to States· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· H027A250093
  6. CNP CN BLOCK PROGRAMS TOTAL CONSOLIDATED$391.3M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Dec 9, 2025 – Jul 2, 2026· 261PA305N1099

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.

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

  • Sub-grants: $2.5B (34,090 subawards)

1,745 sub-recipients

  1. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA$337.4M13%
    PHILADELPHIA, PA · 81 subawards
  2. LANCASTER LEBANON INTERMEDIATE UNIT 13$51.3M2.0%
    LANCASTER, PA · 36 subawards
  3. BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH$45.7M1.8%
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 63 subawards
  4. MONTGOMERY COUNTY INTERMEDIATE UNIT 23$40.5M1.6%
    NORRISTOWN, PA · 61 subawards
  5. ALLENTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$33.4M1.3%
    ALLENTOWN, PA · 69 subawards
  6. ALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNIT$30.9M1.2%
    HOMESTEAD, PA · 66 subawards
  7. READING SCHOOL DISTRICT$30.7M1.2%
    READING, PA · 57 subawards
  8. CAPITAL AREA INTERMEDIATE UNIT$28.9M1.1%
    SUMMERDALE, PA · 32 subawards
  9. HAZLETON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$27.2M1.1%
    HAZLE TOWNSHIP, PA · 63 subawards
  10. CHESTER COUNTY INTERMEDIATE UNIT 24$25.6M1.0%
    DOWNINGTOWN, PA · 68 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $42.4K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. PA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OMB$42.4K100%
    HARRISBURG, PA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $1.8B paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $2.3B paid out · $375K received
  • FY2023: $1.6B paid out · $0 received
  • FY2024: $1.7B paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $1.1B paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $2.5B paid out · $42.4K 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 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

2,764 companies · $11.1B reported

  1. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA$1.6B
    PHILADELPHIA, PA · 560 subawards
  2. LANCASTER LEBANON INTERMEDIATE UNIT 13$256.6M
    LANCASTER, PA · 188 subawards
  3. BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH$207.8M
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 388 subawards

Primes that pay it

No prime reported paying it.

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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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION$487.4K+14% in FY2026
    RALEIGH, NC · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  2. MAINE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$479.5K+10% in FY2026
    AUGUSTA, ME · 97% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  3. WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$508.4K+10% in FY2026
    CHARLESTON, WV · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development 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.

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.