Federal contractor · GREENVILLE, WI

SCHOOL SPECIALTY, LLC

SCHOOL SPECIALTY, LLC received $7.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 10 awards (+4,391% vs FY2025). Since FY2022: $9.3M. Its largest customer was Department of Defense Education Activity ($7.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$7.3M
New awards
10
Sole-source
0.2%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the SCHOOL SPECIALTY, INC. company family: 3 registered entities, $7.3M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. SCHOOL SPECIALTY, INC.GREENVILLE, WI · Family page
    $0
  2. SCHOOL SPECIALTY, INC.SAN DIEGO, CA
    $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.1MFY2022
  2. 476.4KFY2023
  3. 272.9KFY2024
  4. 162KFY2025
  5. 7.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Defense Education Activity$7.3M99.8%
    9 awards
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$12.8K0.2%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$7.3M99.8%
  2. Education & social services$16.2K0.2%

Where the work was performed

  1. Outagamie County, WI$7.3M99.8%
  2. Laurens County, GA$12.8K0.2%
  3. Alexandria city, VA$5,3380.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.2%
    US 39% · $12.8K
  • Sole-source awards0.2%
    US 30% · $12.8K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$12.8K
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. K-5 SCIENCE INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES AND LAB KITS$7.2M
    Department of Defense Education Activity· Outagamie County, WI· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 22, 2026 – Apr 22, 2026· HE125426FE335
  2. SNOEZELEN INSTALLATION$12.8K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Laurens County, GA· Education & social services· May 15, 2026 – Jul 24, 2026· 36C24726P0551
  3. FOSS ORDER FOR HEROS ELEMENTARY$3,433
    Department of Defense Education Activity· Outagamie County, WI· Education & social services· Feb 23, 2026 – Feb 23, 2026· HE125426FE222
  4. NAPLES ES, LAB KIT MATERIALS.$3,006
    Department of Defense Education Activity· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 12, 2026 – Jun 8, 2026· HE125426FE204
  5. DELIVERY ORDER FOR K-5 FOSS REPLACEMENT KIT FOR 4TH GRADE CLASSROOM AT BARSANTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.$2,713
    Department of Defense Education Activity· Outagamie County, WI· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 22, 2026 – Jan 22, 2026· HE125426FE143
  6. ES SCIENCE KITS TO SUPPORT SCIENCE CURRICULUM FOR THE VICENZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.$2,333
    Department of Defense Education Activity· Alexandria city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 8, 2025 – Feb 12, 2026· HE125425FE744
  7. DELIVERY ORDER TO REPLENISH CLASSROOM LAB KIT MATERIALS FOR KINGSOLVER ES.$1,722
    Department of Defense Education Activity· Outagamie County, WI· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 28, 2026 – Jan 28, 2026· HE125426FE157
  8. FOSS REPLENISHMENT SUPPLIES LANDSTUHL ES.$1,565
    Department of Defense Education Activity· Outagamie County, WI· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 8, 2025 – Dec 19, 2025· HE125425FE513

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

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

1 company · $35.5K reported

  1. EDUCATION & TRAINING RESOURCES LLC$35.5K
    BOWLING GREEN, KY · 1 subaward · Technical and trade schools

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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES LLC$9.5M−99% in FY2026
    CLIFTON, VA · 87% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Education Activity · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers
  2. CARNEGIE LEARNING INC$4.8M−100% in FY2026
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 5 entities · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Education Activity · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers
  3. VISTA HIGHER LEARNING, LLC$2.8M−100% in FY2026
    BOSTON, MA · 36% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Education Activity · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers

Showing the top 3 of 19 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.