Federal contractor · EL PASO, TX

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO received $505.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (+781% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($450K). It also received $127M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$505.5K
New awards
4
Sole-source
11%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.3MFY2017
  2. 624.4KFY2018
  3. 605.1KFY2019
  4. 372.6KFY2020
  5. 776.7KFY2021
  6. 261.1KFY2022
  7. 1.3MFY2023
  8. 29.8KFY2024
  9. 57.4KFY2025
  10. 505.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$450K89%
    2 awards
  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$55K11%
    1 awards
  3. Missile Defense Agency$5000.1%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$450K89%
  2. Research & development$55.5K11%

Where the work was performed

  1. El Paso County, TX$505K99.9%
  2. Madison County, AL$5000.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition11%
    US 39% · $55K
  • Sole-source awards11%
    US 30% · $55K
  • 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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$55K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. 1AD ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TRAINING$450K
    Department of the Army· El Paso County, TX· Professional services· May 8, 2026 – May 8, 2026· W911SG26PA023
  2. ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (AM) ANGLED WALLS AND LASER SYSTEM CHARACTERIZATION$55K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· El Paso County, TX· Research & development· Mar 9, 2026 – Jul 21, 2026· 80NSSC26P0314
  3. CURATION OF U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, ALBUQUERQUE DISTRICT ARCHAELOGICAL COLLECTIONS.$20.4K
    Department of the Army· El Paso County, TX· Professional services· Dec 20, 2016 – May 21, 2026· W912PP15V0002
  4. SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
    Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 19, 2025 – Jun 9, 2026· HQ085926FF934

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 TEXAS AT EL PASO received $127M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 322 actions (27 new awards), +0.5% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($96.1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$127M
New awards
27
Actions
322
Since FY2021
$837.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 184.4MFY2021
  2. 118.5MFY2022
  3. 137MFY2023
  4. 143.9MFY2024
  5. 126.4MFY2025
  6. 127MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$99.3M78%
  2. Grants$27.7M22%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$96.1M76%
  2. 12.006 · National Defense Education Program$9.6M7.6%
  3. 93.307 · Minority Health and Health Disparities Research$6.6M5.2%
  4. 47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)$3.7M2.9%
  5. 47.041 · Engineering$1.8M1.4%
  6. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$1.8M1.4%
  7. 84.141 · Migrant Education High School Equivalency Program$1.4M1.1%
  8. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$1.4M1.1%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$104.1M82%
  2. Washington Headquarters Services$9.6M7.6%
    Department of Defense
  3. National Science Foundation$6.8M5.3%
  4. National Institutes of Health$3.6M2.8%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  5. Health Resources and Services Administration$1.3M1.0%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  6. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$484.7K0.4%
  7. Department of the Army$355.8K0.3%
    Department of Defense
  8. Department of the Air Force$342.9K0.3%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$96.3M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 20, 2025 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P252338
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$92.9M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 19, 2024 – Apr 9, 2026· P063P242338
  3. HIGHER EDUCATION EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND FOR UTEP$63.6M
    84.425 · Education Stabilization Fund· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jan 15, 2021 – Apr 27, 2026· P425E200084
  4. GRANT PROGRAM$38M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 19, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P262338
  5. IMPLEMENTING COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACHES TO INCREASE SARS-COV-2 TESTING AMONG AN UNDERSERVED AND VULNERABLE HISPANIC POPULATION$30.9M
    93.307 · Minority Health and Health Disparities Research· National Institutes of Health· Cooperative agreement· Feb 19, 2021 – Sep 23, 2026· U54MD007592
  6. MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK MODEL DESIGNED TO MAXIMIZE THE SUCCESSFUL ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PROGRESSION OF UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS…$18.9M
    12.006 · National Defense Education Program· Washington Headquarters Services· Cooperative agreement· Oct 16, 2024 – Mar 4, 2026· HQ00342520001

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: $3.3M (21 subawards)

21 sub-recipients

  1. UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO$334.7K10%
    TOLEDO, OH · 1 subaward
  2. MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY$298.4K8.9%
    SPRINGFIELD, MO · 1 subaward
  3. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED$200K6.0%
    MERCED, CA · 1 subaward
  4. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA$200K6.0%
    SANTA BARBARA, CA · 1 subaward
  5. SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$200K6.0%
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 1 subaward
  6. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$200K6.0%
    IRVINE, CA · 1 subaward
  7. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$200K6.0%
    TEMPE, AZ · 1 subaward
  8. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$200K6.0%
    MIAMI, FL · 1 subaward
  9. RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$200K6.0%
    NEW YORK, NY · 1 subaward
  10. THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES$200K6.0%
    ORLANDO, FL · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $125.7K (1 subaward)
  • Sub-grants: $3.4M (15 subawards)

16 primes

  1. HOWARD UNIVERSITY$726.7K20%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON$460K13%
    ARLINGTON, TX · 1 subaward
  3. ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$378.2K11%
    NEW YORK, NY · 1 subaward
  4. CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$377K11%
    MOUNT PLEASANT, MI · 1 subaward
  5. CORNELL UNIVERSITY$324.5K9.1%
    ITHACA, NY · 1 subaward
  6. RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$262.6K7.4%
    CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA · 1 subaward
  7. GOVERNOR, TEXAS OFFICE OF THE$158.7K4.5%
    AUSTIN, TX · 1 subaward
  8. JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INC.$125.7K3.5%
    TULLAHOMA, TN · 1 subaward
  9. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$121.9K3.4%
    URBANA, IL · 1 subaward
  10. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$121.6K3.4%
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $1.1M paid out · $23.5M received
  • FY2022: $16.5M paid out · $10.4M received
  • FY2023: $5.6M paid out · $17.7M received
  • FY2024: $4.6M paid out · $31.9M received
  • FY2025: $8.1M paid out · $6.9M received
  • FY2026: $3.3M paid out · $3.5M received
  • FY2027: $0 paid out · $75K 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

100 companies · $39.2M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.$4.7M
    ORLANDO, FL · 1 subaward
  2. EL PASO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT$2.7M
    EL PASO, TX · 7 subawards
  3. TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$2M
    NASHVILLE, TN · 2 subawards

Primes that pay it

81 companies · $94M reported

  1. NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING$46.3M
    BLAIRSVILLE, PA · 17 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  2. UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY SPACE DYNAMICS LABORATORY$7M
    NORTH LOGAN, UT · 5 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$4.5M
    AUSTIN, TX · 15 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 5 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. VOICE OF INFLUENCE, LLC$508.1K−100% in FY2026
    NORTH PLATTE, NE · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Business schools and computer and management training
  2. C PARKER CONSULTING INC$509.4K0% in FY2026
    FREDERICKSBURG, VA · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Business schools and computer and management training
  3. THREE SIXTY, INC.$384K+136% in FY2026
    BULVERDE, TX · 75% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Business schools and computer and management training

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 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.