Federal contractor · HELENA, MT

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION MONTANA OFFICE OF

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION MONTANA OFFICE OF received $128.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+14% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.2M. Its largest customer was Department of Education ($128.7K). It also received $212.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$128.7K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 128KFY2017
  2. 134.4KFY2018
  3. 63.6KFY2019
  4. 153.3KFY2020
  5. 119.9KFY2021
  6. 96.7KFY2022
  7. 137.4KFY2023
  8. 129.4KFY2024
  9. 113.3KFY2025
  10. 128.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Education$128.7K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$128.7K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Lewis and Clark County, MT$128.7K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $128.7K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $128.7K
  • 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. MONTANA- NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS (NAEP) STATE COORDINATOR$254.5K
    Department of Education· Lewis and Clark County, MT· Professional services· Mar 25, 2025 – Jun 4, 2026· 91990025C0051

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.

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION MONTANA OFFICE OF received $212.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 69 actions (26 new awards), −7.6% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies ($57.4M).

Assistance · FY2026
$212.2M
New awards
26
Actions
69
Since FY2021
$1.9B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 776.1MFY2021
  2. 250MFY2022
  3. 228.4MFY2023
  4. 184.1MFY2024
  5. 229.7MFY2025
  6. 212.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$212.2M100%

Top programs

  1. 84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies$57.4M27%
  2. 84.027 · Special Education Grants to States$46.4M22%
  3. 10.555 · National School Lunch Program$42.8M20%
  4. 84.371 · Comprehensive Literacy Development$15.5M7.3%
  5. 84.367 · Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (Formerly Improving Teacher Quality State GRANTS)$10.8M5.1%
  6. 84.411 · Education Innovation and Research (Formerly Investing in Innovation (I3) FUND)$9.9M4.7%
  7. 84.424 · Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program$6.7M3.2%
  8. 84.287 · Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers$6.5M3.1%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$162.1M76%
  2. Food and Nutrition Service$46.8M22%
    Department of Agriculture
  3. Employment and Training Administration$3.1M1.5%
    Department of Labor
  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$161K0.1%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. TITLE I PART A BASIC GRANTS TO LEAS$57.3M
    84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· S010A250026
  2. STATE GRANT - B (611)$46M
    84.027 · Special Education Grants to States· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· H027A250096
  3. CNP CN BLOCK PROGRAMS TOTAL CONSOLIDATED$41.7M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Dec 8, 2025 – Apr 2, 2026· 263MT306N1099
  4. CNP CN BLOCK PROGRAMS TOTAL CONSOLIDATED$22.2M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 4, 2024 – Jun 4, 2026· 253MT306N1099
  5. TITLE I PART A BASIC GRANTS TO LEAS$22.2M
    84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2026 – Jul 1, 2026· S010A260026
  6. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$18.7M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 14, 2025 – Jul 2, 2026· 263MT306N1199

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: $61M (196 subawards)

158 sub-recipients

  1. BILLINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 2$6.4M10%
    BILLINGS, MT · 2 subawards
  2. GREAT FALLS PARENT PARTICIPATION PRESCHOOL, INC$4.1M6.7%
    GREAT FALLS, MT · 2 subawards
  3. HELENA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$3M4.9%
    HELENA, MT · 3 subawards
  4. MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2.4M4.0%
    MISSOULA, MT · 1 subaward
  5. KALISPELL SCHOOL DISTRICT 5$2.3M3.8%
    KALISPELL, MT · 2 subawards
  6. BUTTE SCHOOL DISTRICT 1$2.2M3.6%
    BUTTE, MT · 2 subawards
  7. SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 7$1.9M3.2%
    BOZEMAN, MT · 2 subawards
  8. COUNTY OF GLACIER SCHOOL DISTRICT 9$1.4M2.3%
    BROWNING, MT · 2 subawards
  9. COUNTY OF BIG HORN BIG HORN CO SCHOOL DISTRICT 17H & 1$1.3M2.1%
    HARDIN, MT · 3 subawards
  10. PRICKLY PEAR SPECIAL SERVICES COOPERATIVE$1.2M2.0%
    EAST HELENA, MT · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $154.2M paid out · $100K received
  • FY2022: $236M paid out · $70K received
  • FY2023: $341.9M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2024: $454.7M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $143.9M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $61M paid out · $0 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

421 companies · $1.4B reported

  1. BILLINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 2$125.6M
    BILLINGS, MT · 45 subawards
  2. GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT 1$68.8M
    GREAT FALLS, MT · 31 subawards
  3. HELENA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$55.8M
    HELENA, MT · 41 subawards

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $170K reported

  1. DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS MONTANA$100K
    FORT HARRISON, MT · 1 subaward
  2. MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INDUSTRY$70K
    HELENA, MT · 1 subaward

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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. MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$370.1K+16% in FY2026
    JACKSON, MS · 99.6% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  2. KANSAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$372.8K+19% in FY2026
    TOPEKA, KS · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  3. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$377.6K+2.8% in FY2026
    WEST COLUMBIA, SC · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services

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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.