Federal contractor · PIERRE, SD

SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION received $167.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+43% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1M. Its largest customer was Department of Education ($123.7K). It also received $231.3M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$167.8K
New awards
2
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 123.7KFY2017
  2. 36.9KFY2018
  3. 145.8KFY2019
  4. 62.1KFY2020
  5. 14.2KFY2021
  6. 229.7KFY2022
  7. 109.6KFY2023
  8. 0FY2024
  9. 117.8KFY2025
  10. 167.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Education$123.7K74%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Army$44.2K26%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$123.7K74%
  2. Facilities & utilities$44.2K26%

Where the work was performed

  1. Hughes County, SD$123.7K74%
  2. Douglas County, NE$44.2K26%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $167.8K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $167.8K
  • 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$44.2K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SOUTH DAKOTA - NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS (NAEP) STATE COORDINATOR$241.4K
    Department of Education· Hughes County, SD· Professional services· Mar 25, 2025 – Jun 5, 2026· 91990025C0067
  2. ARMS ACCESS AND COLLECTION MAINTENANCE FEES$44.2K
    Department of the Army· Douglas County, NE· Facilities & utilities· Jan 9, 2026 – Jan 9, 2026· W9128F26FA030

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 DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION received $231.3M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 103 actions (43 new awards), +5.2% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies ($57.7M).

Assistance · FY2026
$231.3M
New awards
43
Actions
103
Since FY2021
$1.9B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 795.8MFY2021
  2. 249.4MFY2022
  3. 210.6MFY2023
  4. 199.1MFY2024
  5. 219.9MFY2025
  6. 231.3MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$229.2M99%
  2. Direct payments$2.1M0.9%
  3. Other assistance$16K0.0%

Top programs

  1. 84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies$57.7M25%
  2. 10.555 · National School Lunch Program$55.3M24%
  3. 84.027 · Special Education Grants to States$44.3M19%
  4. 84.371 · Comprehensive Literacy Development$13.3M5.8%
  5. 84.367 · Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (Formerly Improving Teacher Quality State GRANTS)$10.8M4.7%
  6. 84.374 · Teacher and School Leader Incentive Grants (Formerly the Teacher Incentive FUND)$7.1M3.1%
  7. 84.424 · Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program$6.7M2.9%
  8. 84.287 · Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers$6.5M2.8%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$153.1M66%
  2. Food and Nutrition Service$60.8M26%
    Department of Agriculture
  3. Employment and Training Administration$13.1M5.7%
    Department of Labor
  4. Federal Communications Commission$2.1M0.9%
  5. Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.3M0.6%
  6. National Park Service$896.5K0.4%
    Department of the Interior
  7. Forest Service$16K0.0%
    Department of Agriculture

Largest awards

  1. TITLE I PART A BASIC GRANTS TO LEAS$57.7M
    84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· S010A250041
  2. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$51M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 25, 2023 – Jun 9, 2026· 243SD310N1199
  3. STATE GRANT - B (611)$43.8M
    84.027 · Special Education Grants to States· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· H027A250091
  4. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND$41.3M
    84.425 · Education Stabilization Fund· Department of Education· Formula grant· Sep 9, 2026 – Sep 9, 2026· S425D200050
  5. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$39.1M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 14, 2025 – Jul 2, 2026· 263SD310N1199
  6. CNP CN BLOCK PROGRAMS TOTAL CONSOLIDATED$27.4M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 4, 2024 – Apr 17, 2026· 253SD310N1099

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

  • Sub-grants: $140.6M (638 subawards)

213 sub-recipients

  1. SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 49-5$21.1M15%
    SIOUX FALLS, SD · 17 subawards
  2. RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4$12.4M8.8%
    RAPID CITY, SD · 12 subawards
  3. OGLALA LAKOTA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$8.3M5.9%
    BATESLAND, SD · 9 subawards
  4. GARRETSON SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-4$7.8M5.5%
    GARRETSON, SD · 4 subawards
  5. TODD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 66-1$7.2M5.2%
    MISSION, SD · 10 subawards
  6. ABERDEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT 6-1$4.3M3.0%
    ABERDEEN, SD · 10 subawards
  7. HURON SCHOOL DISTRICT 2 2$4M2.8%
    HURON, SD · 9 subawards
  8. YANKTON SCHOOL DISTRICT 63-3$3.2M2.3%
    YANKTON, SD · 10 subawards
  9. HARRISBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT 41-2$3.1M2.2%
    HARRISBURG, SD · 7 subawards
  10. MITCHELL SCHOOL DISTRICT$2.7M1.9%
    MITCHELL, SD · 10 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $838.5M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $225.3M paid out · $450K received
  • FY2023: $156.3M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2024: $151.7M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $190.6M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $140.6M 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 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

325 companies · $1.7B reported

  1. SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 49-5$201.1M
    SIOUX FALLS, SD · 139 subawards
  2. CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICE, INC$145.5M
    PIERRE, SD · 7 subawards
  3. RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4$143.6M
    RAPID CITY, SD · 115 subawards

Primes that pay it

1 company · $450K reported

  1. SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY$450K
    PIERRE, SD · 1 subaward

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

  1. ATOMIC SOFTWARE INC$250K
    BROOKLYN, NY · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  2. NEUMATHICA, LLC$250K
    LEXINGTON, MA · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  3. THE CANAAN CENTER LLC$250K
    PLANTATION, FL · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development 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 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.