Federal contractor · SAN DIEGO, CA

RIVET OPERATIONS COMPANY LLC

RIVET OPERATIONS COMPANY LLC received $35.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 10 awards (−7.3% vs FY2025). Since FY2018: $172.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($21M).

Obligations · FY2026
$35.7M
New awards
10
Sole-source
56%
Single offer
43%
UEI
KYP9UPNMQL67
Parent company
RIVET OPERATIONS CO LLC
Small businessMinority-owned8(a) programNative-owned

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 7.7MFY2018
  2. 3.4MFY2019
  3. 5.6MFY2020
  4. 5.8MFY2021
  5. 19.6MFY2022
  6. 23.1MFY2023
  7. 33.8MFY2024
  8. 38.4MFY2025
  9. 35.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 7 awards
  2. 2 awards
  3. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$34.5M97%
  2. IT & telecom$1M2.8%
  3. Construction & real property$130.7K0.4%
  4. Research & development$5000.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Norfolk city, VA$130.7K0.4%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition99.6%
    US 39% · $35.5M
  • Sole-source awards56%
    US 30% · $20M
  • Single-offer competitions43%
    US 8.7% · $15.5M
  • 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 Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Professional services· May 4, 2022 – May 29, 2026· M6785422C0500
  2. Department of the Army· El Paso County, CO· Professional services· Aug 19, 2025 – May 28, 2026· W9126025FA015
  3. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Professional services· Sep 29, 2023 – Apr 14, 2026· N0024423C0024
  4. Department of the Navy· Honolulu County, HI· Facilities & utilities· Sep 17, 2021 – May 27, 2026· N3225321C0009
  5. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Professional services· Aug 15, 2024 – Mar 30, 2026· N0003924C6000
  6. Department of the Navy· Norfolk city, VA· Construction & real property· Sep 24, 2024 – May 22, 2026· N3220524C4093
  7. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· IT & telecom· Jan 29, 2026 – Jun 11, 2026· N6852026F1025
  8. Department of the Army· Riverside County, CA· Professional services· May 8, 2026 – May 8, 2026· W50S7426PA013

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-contracts: $142.9K (2 subawards)

1 sub-recipient

  1. JOHNSON SERVICE GROUP, INC.$142.9K100%
    WESTMONT, IL · 2 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Its reported sub-contracts equal 0.4% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $7.5M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2023: $1.2M paid out · $520.8K received
  • FY2024: $5.9M paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2025: $79.3K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $142.9K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

8 companies · $14.8M reported

  1. HERNDON, VA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services
  2. LA MESA, CA · 1 subaward · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. VSOLVIT LLC$2.6M
    VENTURA, CA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services

Primes that pay it

1 company · $1.7M reported

  1. ARLINGTON, VA · 2 subawards · Computer systems design and related 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 10 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SIGNIFICANCE INC$87.7M−49% in FY2026
    ANNAPOLIS, MD · 64% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  2. RMC 2021 LLC$78.3M−76% in FY2026
    ARLINGTON, VA · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesArmy · Computer systems design and related services
  3. CALIFORNIA, MD · 31% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related 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.