Federal contractor · TAMPA, FL

TRACE SYSTEMS INC.

TRACE SYSTEMS INC. received $41.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 276 awards (+14% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $228.7M. Its largest customer was Federal Acquisition Service ($17.8M).

Obligations · FY2026
$41.9M
New awards
276
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.4%
UEI
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Other than small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 24.1MFY2019
  2. 20.7MFY2020
  3. 18.7MFY2021
  4. 36.9MFY2022
  5. 36.9MFY2023
  6. 12.7MFY2024
  7. 36.8MFY2025
  8. 41.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 1 awards
  2. 3 awards
  3. 1 awards
  4. 269 awards
  5. 1 awards
  6. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$35.5M85%
  2. IT & telecom$6.4M15%
  3. Research & development$5000.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Abroad$10.6M25%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.4%
    US 39% · $167.5K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.4%
    US 8.8% · $167.5K
  • 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. Defense Information Systems Agency· Prince George's County, MD· IT & telecom· Sep 9, 2019 – May 13, 2026· HC104719F5053
  2. Defense Information Systems Agency· Prince George's County, MD· IT & telecom· Dec 14, 2021 – May 14, 2026· HC104722F0004
  3. Department of the Air Force· Sumter County, SC· Professional services· Oct 4, 2024 – Apr 29, 2026· FA489025F0002
  4. Federal Acquisition Service· Hillsborough County, FL· Professional services· May 8, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 47QFLA26F0022
  5. Department of the Army· Professional services· Nov 27, 2024 – Jun 9, 2026· W91RUS25C0002
  6. LABOR$10.7M
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Fairfax County, VA· IT & telecom· Apr 20, 2022 – Mar 30, 2026· HC101322F0082
  7. Department of the Air Force· Los Angeles County, CA· IT & telecom· Feb 13, 2025 – Apr 29, 2026· FA281625F0017
  8. Defense Information Systems Agency· Anne Arundel County, MD· IT & telecom· Mar 20, 2024 – Jan 15, 2026· HC104724F0024

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-contracts: $1.9M (1 subaward)

1 sub-recipient

  1. MC LEAN, VA · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $404.5K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. FAIRFAX, VA · 2 subawards

Its reported sub-contracts equal 4.6% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $10.6M received
  • FY2025: $2.5M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $1.9M paid out · $404.5K 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

4 companies · $4.4M reported

  1. FAYETTEVILLE, NC · 1 subaward · Office administrative services
  2. MC LEAN, VA · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. WOODBRIDGE, VA · 1 subaward · Office administrative services

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $11M reported

  1. CHANTILLY, VA · 2 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  2. GROTON, CT · 2 subawards · Computer systems design and related services

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

  1. AVARINT, LLC$24.9M−37% in FY2026
    BUFFALO, NY · 27% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. URSA MAJOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$25.3M−52% in FY2026
    BERTHOUD, CO · 27% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. BRTRC FEDERAL SOLUTIONS, INC.$27.7M−50% in FY2026
    HERNDON, VA · 27% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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.

Matched organizations

  • Trace Systems Inc.AI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2023
$30K
2 reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$30K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations1 reports
  2. Defense1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. SENATE1 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. Van Scoyoc Associates$30K
    2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.