Federal contractor · ORANGEBURG, SC

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY received $250K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+8.9% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.1M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($250K). It also received $26M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$250K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
JHM2PHX82EM7
Other than small businessEducational institutionGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. -110.1KFY2017
  2. 247.9KFY2022
  3. 249.7KFY2023
  4. 229.6KFY2024
  5. 229.6KFY2025
  6. 250KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$250K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$250K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Orangeburg County, SC$250K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $250K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $250K
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Army$250K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. 4BDE JR-JCLC SCSU STEM PROVIDE MEALS, LODGING AND TRAINING FACILITIES CADETS AND CADER DURING 06-13 JUNE 2026.$250K
    Department of the Army· Orangeburg County, SC· Education & social services· Jun 3, 2026 – Jun 3, 2026· W9124D26PA166

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.

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY received $26M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 168 actions (12 new awards), −42% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($9.5M).

Assistance · FY2026
$26M
New awards
12
Actions
168
Since FY2021
$236.3M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 56.5MFY2021
  2. 25.9MFY2022
  3. 52.3MFY2023
  4. 30.6MFY2024
  5. 45MFY2025
  6. 26MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$15.5M59%
  2. Direct payments$10.6M41%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$9.5M36%
  2. 84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid$6.9M27%
  3. 10.205 · Payments to 1890 Land-Grant Colleges and Tuskegee University$3.4M13%
  4. 10.512 · Extension Services at 1890 Colleges and Tuskegee University, West Virginia State College, and Central State University$2.7M11%
  5. 10.216 · 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants$1.1M4.1%
  6. 10.500 · Cooperative Extension Service$964.2K3.7%
  7. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$702.1K2.7%
  8. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$387.4K1.5%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$18.1M70%
  2. National Institute of Food and Agriculture$8.2M32%
    Department of Agriculture
  3. National Science Foundation$199.4K0.8%
  4. National Institutes of Health$145.8K0.6%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM$25.1M
    84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid· Department of Education· Project grant· Aug 3, 2022 – Aug 29, 2026· P031B220027
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$14.8M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 18, 2025 – Aug 28, 2026· P063P252198
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$14.7M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Oct 1, 2024 – Jun 19, 2026· P063P242198
  4. THE 1890 RESEARCH AND EXTENSION PROGRAM AT SC STATE UNIVERSITY IS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING AN ORGANIZED RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND TEACHING…$4.6M
    10.500 · Cooperative Extension Service· National Institute of Food and Agriculture· Project grant· Feb 19, 2021 – Feb 24, 2026· 20194520029101
  5. ** AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF…$3.9M
    10.500 · Cooperative Extension Service· National Institute of Food and Agriculture· Project grant· Aug 31, 2023 – Aug 20, 2026· 20234520041132
  6. IN 2024, SC STATE UNIVERSITY ADVANCED ITS MISSION OF TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND OUTREACH BY DELIVERING IMPACTFUL PROGRAMS ACROSS 32 SOUTH…$3.4M
    10.205 · Payments to 1890 Land-Grant Colleges and Tuskegee University· National Institute of Food and Agriculture· Formula grant· Jan 7, 2026 – Jul 13, 2026· NI261445XXXXG008

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

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $7.2M (7 subawards)

4 primes

  1. CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$6.6M92%
    CLEMSON, SC · 4 subawards
  2. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH$330.2K4.6%
    CAYCE, SC · 1 subaward
  3. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$148.8K2.1%
    GAINESVILLE, FL · 1 subaward
  4. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES$137K1.9%
    COLUMBIA, SC · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.9M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $611.9K received
  • FY2023: $413.5K paid out · $4.3M received
  • FY2024: $4.8M paid out · $2.7M received
  • FY2025: $50K paid out · $1.7M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $7.2M 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 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

5 companies · $5.3M reported

  1. ALABAMA A & M UNIVERSITY$4M
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGIN ISLANDS$704.9K
    CHARLOTTE AMALIE, VI · 1 subaward
  3. CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$281.3K
    CLEMSON, SC · 2 subawards

Primes that pay it

14 companies · $18.5M reported

  1. CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$7.7M
    CLEMSON, SC · 9 subawards
  2. CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY$4M
    ORANGEBURG, SC · 1 subaward
  3. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH$2.7M
    COLUMBIA, SC · 4 subawards

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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. WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$698.8K+11% in FY2026
    WASHINGTON, DC · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  2. LANE COLLEGE$928.2K+15% in FY2026
    JACKSON, TN · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  3. THE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION, INC.$944.7K+7.8% in FY2026
    COLUMBIANA, AL · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools

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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.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • South Carolina State UniversityAI match · 92%
Lobbying · 2026
$60K
2 reports
Lobbying · 2025–2026
$110K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2025$50K
    2 reports
  2. 2026$60K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations4 reports
  2. Education4 reports
  3. Transportation4 reports
  4. Government issues3 reports
  5. Health issues3 reports
  6. Economics and economic development2 reports

Who was contacted

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. NADIK CONSULTING$110K
    4 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

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.