Federal contractor · SAN FRANCISCO, CA
TWIST BIOSCIENCE CORPORATION
TWIST BIOSCIENCE CORPORATION received $166.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards. Since FY2017: $7.5M. Its largest customer was Federal Bureau of Investigation ($97.1K).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $166.3K
- New awards
- 6
- Sole-source
- 90%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- CMN5DM38JLN1
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 5.1KFY2017
- 6.7KFY2018
- 456.9KFY2020
- 1.1MFY2021
- 6.9MFY2022
- 207KFY2023
- 350.4KFY2024
- -1.7MFY2025
- 166.3KFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation$97.1K58%1 awards
- Department of the Navy$50.4K30%1 awards
- National Institutes of Health$16.7K10%2 awards
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2,0571.2%2 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Other equipment & supplies$137.4K65%
- Health & medical$74.2K35%
Where the work was performed
- San Mateo County, CA$161.3K97%
- Honolulu County, HI$50.4K30%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition84%US 39% · $139.5K
- Sole-source awards90%US 30% · $149.6K
- Single-offer competitions0.0%US 8.8% · -$10.1K
- 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
- Department of Justice · 1 awards
- Department of the Navy$50.4KDepartment of Defense · 1 awards
- Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards
Largest awards
- Department of Veterans Affairs· Dane County, WI· Research & development· Aug 19, 2024 – Aug 26, 2026· 36C25224C0034
- Federal Bureau of Investigation· San Mateo County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 20, 2026· 15F06726P0000533
- Department of the Navy· Honolulu County, HI· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 8, 2026 – Jun 8, 2026· N3239826P0116
- Department of Veterans Affairs· San Mateo County, CA· Health & medical· Jun 24, 2026 – Jun 24, 2026· 36C26226P1118
- National Institutes of Health· San Mateo County, CA· Health & medical· Aug 3, 2026 – Aug 3, 2026· 75N98026P01129
- National Institutes of Health· San Mateo County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 18, 2020 – Jul 27, 2026· 75N95A21P00027
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: $474.8K (3 subawards)
2 primes
- THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$375.4K79%BALTIMORE, MD · 2 subawards
- FORT DETRICK, MD · 1 subaward
By fiscal year
- FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.1M received
- FY2022: $0 paid out · $120.5K received
- FY2023: $0 paid out · $35.5K received
- FY2024: $0 paid out · $79.5K received
- FY2025: $0 paid out · $633.5K received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $474.8K 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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
4 companies · $2.4M reported
- WORCESTER, MA · 1 subaward
- PURDUE UNIVERSITY$595.1KWEST LAFAYETTE, IN · 1 subaward
- FORT DETRICK, MD · 8 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.
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
- Twist Bioscience CorporationAI match · 100%
- Lobbying · 2025
- $300K
- 4 reports
- Lobbying · 2023–2026
- $809.5K
Lobbying by year
- 2023$159.5K4 reports
- 2024$185K4 reports
- 2025$300K4 reports
- 2026$165K2 reports
Top issues
- Budget and appropriations8 reports
- Health issues8 reports
- Copyright, patent and trademark7 reports
- Intelligence and surveillance7 reports
- Science and technology6 reports
- Trade (domestic and foreign)3 reports
- Miscellaneous tariff bills2 reports
- Defense1 reports
Who was contacted
- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
- U.S. SENATE14 reports
- Commerce - Dept of (DOC)4 reports
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)1 reports
- Natl Security Council (NSC)1 reports
- State - Dept of (DOS)1 reports
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)1 reports
Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).
Lobbying firms hired
- iPolicy Solutions$809.5K14 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.
Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.