Federal contractor · LOWELL, MA

TROUBLED WATERS, INC.

TROUBLED WATERS, INC. received $832.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+150% vs FY2025). Since FY2025: $1.2M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($832.2K).

Obligations · FY2026
$832.2K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
WVJ5CBKELFW8
Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 332.8KFY2025
  2. 832.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$832.2K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$832.2K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Middlesex County, MA$832.2K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $832.2K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $832.2K
  • 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. BEDFORD EMERGENCY BEDS$1.2M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Middlesex County, MA· Education & social services· Mar 27, 2025 – Jul 7, 2026· 36C24125P0371

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.

TROUBLED WATERS, INC. received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (0 new awards), −100% vs FY2025.

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
2
Since FY2023
$1.6M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 500KFY2023
  2. 1.1MFY2024
  3. 2.1KFY2025
  4. 0FY2026

Largest awards

  1. PURPOSE OF PROJECT: THE BRIDGE OF HOPE PROJECT AIMS TO CONNECT HOMELESS VETERANS AND THOSE AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS IN GREATER LOWELL AND…$1.2M
    17.805 · Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program· Veterans Employment and Training Services· Grant· Jul 17, 2024 – Mar 25, 2026· 24560HV000089

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2023–FY2026.

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. OPERATION DIGNITY, INC.$1.2M+2% in FY2026
    OAKLAND, CA · 99.7% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services
  2. BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR SERVICES, INC.$1.1M+6.3% in FY2026
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services
  3. HARMONY HOUSE, INC.$1.2M−47% in FY2026
    HOUSTON, TX · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services

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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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.