Federal contractor · FULTON, MD

QUALITY ASSOCIATES, INC.

QUALITY ASSOCIATES, INC. received $239.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 9 awards (−54% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $3.8M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($78.5K).

Obligations · FY2026
$239.2K
New awards
9
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
93%
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. 614.1KFY2017
  2. 605.9KFY2018
  3. 360.5KFY2019
  4. -325KFY2020
  5. 570KFY2021
  6. 819.7KFY2022
  7. 132.6KFY2023
  8. 220.3KFY2024
  9. 525KFY2025
  10. 239.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$78.5K33%
    1 awards
  2. National Archives and Records Administration$62.1K26%
    2 awards
  3. Department of the Army$45.8K19%
    1 awards
  4. Bureau of Land Management$39.5K17%
    1 awards
  5. Defense Finance and Accounting Service$20K8.4%
    1 awards
  6. Department of the Navy$17.7K7.4%
    1 awards
  7. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement$00.0%
    1 awards
  8. Securities and Exchange Commission-$24.3K0.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$167.4K70%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$71.8K30%

Where the work was performed

  1. Prince George's County, MD$121.2K51%
  2. Harford County, MD$45.8K19%
  3. Santa Fe County, NM$39.5K17%
  4. Howard County, MD$37.7K16%
  5. Tarrant County, TX$19.3K8.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition93%
    US 39% · $221.5K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions93%
    US 8.8% · $221.5K
  • 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. MICROFICHE SCANNERS MAINTENANCE AND SOFTWARE SUPPORT.$317.6K
    Defense Finance and Accounting Service· Howard County, MD· IT & telecom· Mar 21, 2025 – Feb 17, 2026· HQ042325FE028
  2. MICROFILM AND MICROFICHE SCANNERS$78.5K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Prince George's County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· May 29, 2026 – May 29, 2026· 80NSSC26F0058
  3. NMSO PSI CAPTURE SOFTWARE BASE YR & 4OPT$77.1K
    Bureau of Land Management· Santa Fe County, NM· IT & telecom· Aug 27, 2025 – May 27, 2026· 140L4025F0024
  4. THE U.S. ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT COMMAND CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER REQUIRES THE PROCUREMENT OF ONE MEKEL MACH MINIFICHE MICROFICHE SCANNER SYSTEM.$45.8K
    Department of the Army· Harford County, MD· IT & telecom· Feb 26, 2026 – Feb 26, 2026· W91ZLK26FA016
  5. QUALITY ASSOCIATES - MEKEL MACH MINI MICROFICHE SCANNER WITH MAINTENANCE AND SOFTWARE CONTRACTS$42.7K
    National Archives and Records Administration· Prince George's County, MD· IT & telecom· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 88310326F00219
  6. NATIONAL MINE MAP REPOSITORY (NMMR) FOR MICROFILM REEL SCANNER$40.9K
    Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement· Howard County, MD· IT & telecom· Sep 11, 2023 – Jul 28, 2026· 140S0123F0003
  7. QUALITY ASSOCIATES - CROWLEY C400 ADVANCED APERTURE CARD SCANNER, MAINTENANCE SERVICES$19.3K
    National Archives and Records Administration· Tarrant County, TX· IT & telecom· Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 88310326F00215
  8. APERTURE CARD SCANNER$17.7K
    Department of the Navy· Howard County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· May 26, 2026 – May 26, 2026· N6893626F5209

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: $2.2M (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. GUIDEHOUSE INC.$1.9M87%
    MCLEAN, VA · 1 subaward
  2. SALIENT CRGT, INC.$289.3K13%
    FAIRFAX, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $545.7K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $107.4K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $681.1K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $461.8K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $2.2M 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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

7 companies · $6.2M reported

  1. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION$1.9M
    RESTON, VA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services
  2. PERATON ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS LLC$1.9M
    CHANTILLY, VA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services
  3. CGI FEDERAL INC.$1.1M
    FAIRFAX, VA · 5 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

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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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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 15 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. LORTON DATA INC$167.7K−20% in FY2026
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 17% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related services
  2. INTERNET ARCHIVE$475K+81% in FY2026
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 19% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Archives and Records Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesBureau of Land Management · Computer systems design and related services
  3. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF DELAWARE$654.6K−0.6% in FY2026
    DOVER, DE · 21% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.