Federal contractor · HELENA, MT

THE THIRD ELEMENT, INCORPORATED

THE THIRD ELEMENT, INCORPORATED received $6,748 in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (−99% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $1.2M. Its largest customer was Forest Service ($6,748).

Obligations · FY2026
$6,748
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 8KFY2020
  2. 5KFY2023
  3. 1.2MFY2025
  4. 6.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Forest Service$6,748100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Construction & real property$6,748100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Lewis and Clark County, MT$6,748100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. MERIWETHER PICNIC AREA WATER SYSTEM REPAIR$141.1K
    Forest Service· Lewis and Clark County, MT· Construction & real property· Aug 29, 2025 – Jun 1, 2026· 1240LU25C0024

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-contracts: $160.6K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. COPPER CREEK, LLC$160.6K100%
    GREAT FALLS, MT · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $2,357 received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $39.3K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $176.8K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $160.6K 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 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

2 companies · $379.1K reported

  1. COPPER CREEK, LLC$376.7K
    GREAT FALLS, MT · 3 subawards · Nonresidential building construction
  2. LEIDOS, INC.$2,357
    RESTON, VA · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services

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

  1. AG SOLUTIONS LLC$983.1K−100% in FY2026
    FARMINGTON, NM · 79% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education · Building equipment contractors
  2. MICHAEL SMILEY$726.9K−100% in FY2026
    ST MICHAELS, AZ · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education · Building equipment contractors
  3. TECHWORX LLC$716.3K
    LAS VEGAS, NV · 58% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education · 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 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.