Federal contractor · VERMILLION, SD

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA received $200.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−31% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $3.2M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($140K). It also received $31.8M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$200.3K
New awards
5
Sole-source
93%
Single offer
7.5%
UEI
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Other than small businessEducational institutionGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 480.6KFY2017
  2. 389.7KFY2018
  3. 274.8KFY2019
  4. 301.6KFY2020
  5. 254.5KFY2021
  6. 339.5KFY2022
  7. 330.5KFY2023
  8. 325.7KFY2024
  9. 291.5KFY2025
  10. 200.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$140K70%
    3 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$60.4K30%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$125K62%
  2. Education & social services$60.4K30%
  3. Research & development$15K7.5%

Where the work was performed

  1. Minnehaha County, SD$120K60%
  2. Clay County, SD$75.4K38%
  3. Cass County, ND$5,0002.5%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $200.3K
  • Sole-source awards93%
    US 30% · $185.3K
  • Single-offer competitions7.5%
    US 8.7% · $15K
  • 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 Navy$60.4K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. WEGNER CENTER MEDICAL LIBRARY SERVICES FOR THE SIOUX FALLS VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.$348.5K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Minnehaha County, SD· Professional services· May 16, 2024 – Jun 23, 2026· 36C26324P0424
  2. TUITION AND FEES$58.7K
    Department of the Navy· Clay County, SD· Education & social services· Aug 22, 2025 – Mar 17, 2026· N0622A25FA511
  3. TUITION AND FEES$57.2K
    Department of the Navy· Clay County, SD· Education & social services· Apr 20, 2026 – Apr 20, 2026· N0622A26FA332
  4. BASE YEAR RESEARCH IACUC/IRB SERVICES CONTRACT$45K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Clay County, SD· Research & development· May 22, 2024 – Jun 26, 2026· 36C26324C0046
  5. INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD$15K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Cass County, ND· Professional services· Oct 1, 2023 – Jun 23, 2026· 36C26324P0007

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.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA received $31.8M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 332 actions (19 new awards), +9.5% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($8.1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$31.8M
New awards
19
Actions
332
Since FY2021
$204.7M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 40.2MFY2021
  2. 28.2MFY2022
  3. 36MFY2023
  4. 39.4MFY2024
  5. 29.1MFY2025
  6. 31.8MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$22.6M71%
  2. Direct payments$9.2M29%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$8.1M25%
  2. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$4.1M13%
  3. 93.600 · Head Start$3.2M10%
  4. 93.286 · Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health$2.8M8.8%
  5. 84.184 · School Safely National Activities$1.3M4.0%
  6. 47.083 · Integrative Activities$850K2.7%
  7. 59.037 · Small Business Development Centers$833.3K2.6%
  8. 47.041 · Engineering$795K2.5%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$11.9M37%
  2. National Institutes of Health$8.4M26%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Administration for Children and Families$3.2M10%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  4. National Science Foundation$2.4M7.7%
  5. Health Resources and Services Administration$2.4M7.4%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  6. Small Business Administration$833.3K2.6%
  7. Administration for Community Living$629K2.0%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  8. Rural Utilities Service$565.5K1.8%
    Department of Agriculture

Largest awards

  1. SOUTH DAKOTA BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK$54.2M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· May 16, 2021 – Aug 12, 2026· P20GM103443
  2. HEAD START EARLY HEAD START$9.6M
    93.600 · Head Start· Administration for Children and Families· Project grant· Mar 8, 2024 – Mar 23, 2026· 08CH012531
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$8.3M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 7, 2025 – Sep 11, 2026· P063P252215
  4. MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF PROTEIN SURPLUS CARDIOMYOPATHY$5.5M
    93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jun 21, 2021 – Sep 18, 2026· R01HL072166
  5. LEADERSHIP EDUC CARING FOR CHLDRN W/NEURODEVELOPMENTAL RELATED DISEASES$5.5M
    93.877 · Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· May 20, 2021 – Sep 23, 2026· T7300037
  6. AHEC POINT OF SERVICE MAINT & ENHANCEMENT$4.3M
    93.107 · Area Health Education Centers· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Nov 6, 2020 – Sep 10, 2026· U7726850

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: $5.3M (33 subawards)

20 sub-recipients

  1. DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.$747.2K14%
    BOSTON, MA · 1 subaward
  2. SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY$701.6K13%
    RAPID CITY, SD · 4 subawards
  3. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$689.7K13%
    CAMBRIDGE, MA · 1 subaward
  4. PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT III$497.1K9.3%
    YANKTON, SD · 5 subawards
  5. DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$468.2K8.8%
    MADISON, SD · 1 subaward
  6. GROW SOUTH DAKOTA$435K8.1%
    SISSETON, SD · 3 subawards
  7. TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER$431.4K8.1%
    LUBBOCK, TX · 2 subawards
  8. WEST RIVER FOUNDATION$395K7.4%
    STURGIS, SD · 3 subawards
  9. BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY$138.1K2.6%
    SPEARFISH, SD · 1 subaward
  10. WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER$120.9K2.3%
    BOX ELDER, SD · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $2.2M (18 subawards)

12 primes

  1. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC$666.5K30%
    LAWRENCE, KS · 1 subaward
  2. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$564.8K25%
    BROOKINGS, SD · 1 subaward
  3. BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY$244K11%
    SPEARFISH, SD · 3 subawards
  4. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$198.5K9.0%
    GRAND FORKS, ND · 3 subawards
  5. AVERA MCKENNAN$141K6.4%
    SIOUX FALLS, SD · 2 subawards
  6. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$100K4.5%
    LINCOLN, NE · 1 subaward
  7. SANFORD RESEARCH NORTH$63.6K2.9%
    FARGO, ND · 1 subaward
  8. SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$62.5K2.8%
    PIERRE, SD · 2 subawards
  9. SANFORD RESEARCH$55K2.5%
    FARGO, ND · 1 subaward
  10. NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$50K2.3%
    AMHERST, MA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $1.2M paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2022: $1.2M paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2023: $1.9M paid out · $3.1M received
  • FY2024: $2M paid out · $909.8K received
  • FY2025: $4M paid out · $2.1M received
  • FY2026: $5.3M paid out · $2.2M 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 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

38 companies · $15.6M reported

  1. SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY$2.2M
    RAPID CITY, SD · 5 subawards
  2. BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY$1.9M
    SPEARFISH, SD · 10 subawards
  3. AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION$1.3M
    SIOUX FALLS, SD · 5 subawards

Primes that pay it

34 companies · $12.1M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC$1.7M
    LAWRENCE, KS · 3 subawards
  2. STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA-DIVISION OF OASI$1.3M
    PIERRE, SD · 8 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$1.1M
    GRAND FORKS, ND · 12 subawards

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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 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY$405.6K−76% in FY2026
    MEMPHIS, TN · 50% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  2. ORLANDO HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY LLC$418.1K−27% in FY2026
    WINTER GARDEN, FL · 50% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  3. VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM$421.4K−68% in FY2026
    RICHMOND, VA · 50% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · 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 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 2026.