Federal contractor · HOUSTON, TX
SINTELA INC
SINTELA INC received $37M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (+15% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $87M. Its largest customer was U.S. Customs and Border Protection ($36.3M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $37M
- New awards
- 6
- Sole-source
- 98%
- Single offer
- 0.2%
- UEI
- MXG2MQ1LJRV5
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 2.2MFY2020
- 1.1MFY2021
- 2.5MFY2022
- 3MFY2023
- 8.9MFY2024
- 32.3MFY2025
- 37MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection$36.3M98%4 awards
- Department of the Army$612K1.7%1 awards
- 1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Other equipment & supplies$36.9M99.8%
- Professional services$89.3K0.2%
Where the work was performed
- Harris County, TX$36.4M98%
- Warren County, MS$612K1.7%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition98%US 39% · $36.4M
- Sole-source awards98%US 30% · $36.3M
- Single-offer competitions0.2%US 8.7% · $89.3K
- 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
- Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards
Largest awards
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection· Harris County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 26, 2026 – Feb 26, 2026· 70B02C26F00000206
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection· Harris County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 26, 2025 – Aug 4, 2026· 70B02C25F00000834
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection· Harris County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 28, 2024 – Feb 26, 2026· 70B02C24F00000969
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection· Harris County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 26, 2025 – Jan 14, 2026· 70B02C25F00001225
- Department of the Army· Warren County, MS· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 18, 2025 – Dec 18, 2025· W912HZ26FA013
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Harris County, TX· Professional services· Sep 28, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026· 75D30126F21733
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.
By fiscal year
- FY2024: $0 paid out · $640K received
- FY2025: $0 paid out · $640K 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
No subawards reported to other companies.
Primes that pay it
1 company · $1.3M reported
- VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 2 subawards · Other miscellaneous manufacturing
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 6 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- B3 CONSTRUCTION, INC$32.1M−17% in FY2026SAN DIEGO, CA · 12% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Building equipment contractors
- AMERIND BG JV 2, LLC$6.3MLITTLE ROCK, AR · 8.1% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Building equipment contractors
- 11 SERIES ENERGY, INC.$5M+174% in FY2026MELBOURNE, FL · 3.2% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Building equipment contractors
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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.