Federal contractor · BANNOCKBURN, IL

STERICYCLE INC

STERICYCLE INC received $1.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 87 awards (−21% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $22.5M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($1.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.7M
New awards
87
Sole-source
25%
Single offer
10%
UEI
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Parent company
ZIPPY SHELL INCORPORATED
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 WASTE MANAGEMENT OF NEW JERSEY, INC. company family: 255 registered entities, $21.9M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. WASTE MANAGEMENT OF NEW JERSEY, INC.TRENTON, NJ · Family page
    $3.1M
  2. PEN-ROB, INC.JOSEPH CITY, AZ
    $4.9M
  3. USA WASTE OF CALIFORNIA, INCEL CAJON, CA
    $3.2M
  4. WASTE MANAGEMENT INC OF FLORIDAKEY WEST, FL
    $2.1M
  5. STERICYCLE INCFAIRFIELD, OH
    $802.7K

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

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.4MFY2017
  2. 3MFY2018
  3. 2.5MFY2019
  4. 2.7MFY2020
  5. 2.4MFY2021
  6. 1.8MFY2022
  7. 1.5MFY2023
  8. 1.3MFY2024
  9. 2.2MFY2025
  10. 1.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$1.5M87%
    31 awards
  2. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$165.6K9.6%
    19 awards
  3. Department of the Air Force$70.8K4.1%
    1 awards
  4. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$6,4480.4%
    1 awards
  5. Offices, Boards and Divisions$5,7200.3%
    1 awards
  6. U.S. Coast Guard$5,4040.3%
    3 awards
  7. National Park Service$2,1210.1%
    1 awards
  8. Department of the Navy-$7260.0%
    1 awards
  9. Indian Health Service-$5,9630.0%
    25 awards
  10. Federal Emergency Management Agency-$7,7580.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$1.5M86%
  2. Health & medical$170K9.9%
  3. Professional services$66.1K3.8%
  4. Construction & real property$5,8010.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Sacramento County, CA$249.5K15%
  2. Cass County, ND$212.8K12%
  3. Erie County, NY$194.9K11%
  4. Steuben County, NY$177.4K10%
  5. Lake County, IL$152.7K8.9%
  6. King County, WA$144.5K8.4%
  7. Vermilion County, IL$91.3K5.3%
  8. Kennebec County, ME$88.3K5.1%
  9. Hennepin County, MN$85K4.9%
  10. Suffolk County, MA$84.5K4.9%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition36%
    US 39% · $616.7K
  • Sole-source awards25%
    US 30% · $437.2K
  • Single-offer competitions10%
    US 8.7% · $179.5K
  • Urgency justifications0.3%
    US 5.1% · $5,320

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$438.7K
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 8 awards
  2. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$35.7K
    Department of Justice · 4 awards
  3. Indian Health Service-$23.5K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL SERVICES - PUGET SOUND VAHCS$671.4K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· King County, WA· Facilities & utilities· Mar 31, 2021 – Mar 30, 2026· 36C26021P0476
  2. SHARPS DISPOSAL$511.8K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· King County, WA· Facilities & utilities· May 31, 2024 – Jun 2, 2026· 36C26024P0661
  3. BIOHAZARDOUS WASTE REMOVAL SERVICES FOR THE VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (VANCHCS)$358.5K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Sacramento County, CA· Facilities & utilities· Jun 9, 2026 – Jun 9, 2026· 36C26126N0451
  4. HAZARDOUS WASTE PICKUP SERVICE - BASE +4$266.4K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Cass County, ND· Facilities & utilities· Jul 1, 2025 – Jun 24, 2026· 36C26325P0892
  5. 21-GIMC PHARMACY SERVICES VENDOR STERICYCLE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE 05 01 21-04 30 22$255.1K
    Indian Health Service· McKinley County, NM· Facilities & utilities· Jun 8, 2021 – Jun 12, 2026· 75H71021P01457
  6. FOREIGN WASTE REMOVAL SERVICES$252K
    Department of the Air Force· Charleston County, SC· Facilities & utilities· Mar 1, 2023 – Dec 1, 2025· FA441823C0010
  7. SHARPS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE DESTRUCTION AND DISPOSAL SERVICES.$231.8K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Erie County, NY· Facilities & utilities· Jun 24, 2026 – Jun 24, 2026· 36C24226N0548
  8. BIOHAZARDOUS WASTE REMOVAL SERVICES FOR THE VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (VANCHCS)$218K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Sacramento County, CA· Facilities & utilities· Jul 17, 2024 – May 11, 2026· 36C26124N0746

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

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $78K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $46K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $50.4K 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

18 companies · $13M reported

  1. 381 CONSTRUCTORS$8.7M
    OMAHA, NE · 1 subaward · Other heavy and civil engineering construction
  2. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, INC$1.4M
    CINCINNATI, OH · 20 subawards · Remediation and other waste management services
  3. VIGOR MARINE LLC$542.5K
    PORTLAND, OR · 3 subawards · Ship and boat building

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

  1. PERRY MANAGEMENT CORP OF SOUTH DAKOTA, L.L.C$36.5M−33% in FY2026
    WAHIAWA, HI · 47% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Waste collectionAir Force · Waste collectionArmy · Waste collection+1 more
  2. YAMAKI CO., LTD.$31.3M+7.2% in FY2026
    KUMAGAYA-SHI, JPN · 42% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Waste collectionAir Force · Waste collection
  3. KURASHIKI, CO.,LTD.$24.6M−9.3% in FY2026
    OKINAWA-SHI, JPN · 39% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Waste collectionAir Force · Waste collection

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.

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.

Across the company family of WASTE MANAGEMENT OF NEW JERSEY, INC. (255 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • STERICYCLE, INC.AI match · 100%
  • WASTE MANAGEMENTAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$830K
12 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$2.9M
$2.9M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$76.5K
2 PACs

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$740K
    16 reports
  2. 2024$840K
    16 reports
  3. 2025$830K
    12 reports
  4. 2026$510K
    6 reports

Top issues

  1. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code34 reports
  2. Waste (hazardous, solid, interstate, nuclear)33 reports
  3. Transportation27 reports
  4. Energy and nuclear14 reports
  5. Environment and Superfund14 reports
  6. Labor issues, antitrust and workplace14 reports
  7. Health issues8 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES50 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE50 reports
  3. Treasury - Dept of5 reports
  4. Transportation - Dept of (DOT)3 reports
  5. Office of Management & Budget (OMB)2 reports
  6. Energy - Dept of1 reports
  7. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)1 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Michael Best Strategies LLC$560K
    14 reports
  2. FEROX STRATEGIES$440K
    14 reports
  3. Bose Public Affairs Group$320K
    8 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Democratic$47.5K62%
  2. Republican$29K38%

PACs sponsored

  • WASTE MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES BETTER GOVERNMENT FUND$354.6K raised this cycle
  • STERICYCLE, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$0 raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

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.