Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC

UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC received $1.2B in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (−6.2% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $10.6B. Its largest customer was Department of Energy ($1.2B). It also received $5.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$1.2B
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
JA8EP8EKX8Y9
Parent company
UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
Other than small businessNonprofitEducational institution
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $1.2B in FY2026 together.

  1. UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLCCHICAGO, IL · Family page
    $1.2B
  2. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOCHICAGO, IL
    $4.8M
  3. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THECHICAGO, IL
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 783.7MFY2017
  2. 920.6MFY2018
  3. 973.2MFY2019
  4. 1.1BFY2020
  5. 992.8MFY2021
  6. 1.1BFY2022
  7. 1.1BFY2023
  8. 1.2BFY2024
  9. 1.3BFY2025
  10. 1.2BFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Energy$1.2B100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$1.2B100%

Where the work was performed

  1. DuPage County, IL$1.2B100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $1.2B
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $1.2B
  • 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. PERFORMANCE-BASED CONTRACT FOR MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY$17.6B
    Department of Energy· DuPage County, IL· Facilities & utilities· Oct 27, 2016 – Sep 29, 2026· DEAC0206CH11357

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.

UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC received $5.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 10 actions (2 new awards), +7.7% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training ($4.3M).

Assistance · FY2026
$5.2M
New awards
2
Actions
10
Since FY2021
$28.4M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 0FY2021
  2. 6.6MFY2022
  3. 7MFY2023
  4. 4.8MFY2024
  5. 4.8MFY2025
  6. 5.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$5.2M100%

Top programs

  1. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$4.3M84%
  2. 12.431 · Basic Scientific Research$808.9K16%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$4.3M84%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Department of the Army$808.9K16%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. GM/CA@APS: A MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY RESOURCE$29.9M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Sep 1, 2021 – Sep 11, 2026· P30GM138396
  2. PROBING COMPETING WATER FLUXES IN BIPOLAR MEMBRANES$408.9K
    12.431 · Basic Scientific Research· Department of the Army· Project grant· Jul 16, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· W911NF261A276
  3. ADVANCED COMPOSITION/STRUCTURE DUAL-GRADIENT CATHODES FOR HIGH ENERGY DENSITY AND HARSH-OPERATION BATTERY TECHNOLOGY$400K
    12.431 · Basic Scientific Research· Department of the Army· Project grant· Aug 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· W911NF261A312

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

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $340.8K (2 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $45K (1 subaward)

3 primes

  1. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$257.8K67%
    PASADENA, CA · 1 subaward
  2. LEIDOS, INC.$83K22%
    RESTON, VA · 1 subaward
  3. ALTEX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION$45K12%
    SAN JOSE, CA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $920.6K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $3M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $6.8M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $385.8K 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 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

224 companies · $261.8M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION$24.8M
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 10 subawards
  2. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$21.5M
    EVANSTON, IL · 57 subawards
  3. ROSWELL PARK CANCER RESEARCH CORPORATION$20.9M
    BUFFALO, NY · 2 subawards

Primes that pay it

202 companies · $461.5M reported

  1. LEIDOS, INC.$72.3M
    RESTON, VA · 15 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$58.6M
    EVANSTON, IL · 264 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$25.9M
    URBANA, IL · 113 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 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 20 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$4.3B−3.7% in FY2026
    OAKLAND, CA · 9 entities · 99.6% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Scientific research and development services
  2. ALLIANCE FOR ENERGY INNOVATION, LLC$2.8B−15% in FY2026
    LAKEWOOD, CO · 78% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Scientific research and development services
  3. FERMI FORWARD DISCOVERY GROUP, LLC$2.5B−55% in FY2026
    CHICAGO, IL · 69% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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.

Across the company family of UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (3 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • The University of ChicagoAI match · 100%
  • The University of Chicago Medical CenterAI match · 96%
Lobbying · 2025
$130K
15 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$721.6K
$721.6K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$300.3K
    12 reports
  2. 2024$225.3K
    12 reports
  3. 2025$130K
    15 reports
  4. 2026$66K
    10 reports

Top issues

  1. Health issues19 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations14 reports
  3. Science and technology12 reports
  4. Education11 reports
  5. Medicare and Medicaid11 reports
  6. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code7 reports
  7. Law enforcement, crime and criminal justice2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES46 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE46 reports
  3. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)13 reports
  4. White House Office4 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. Carmen Group Incorporated$906K
    14 reports
  2. Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.$700K
    14 reports
  3. BGR Government Affairs$390K
    5 reports
  4. Brooks Bawden Moore, LLC, formerly reported as Brooks Bawden, LLC$20K
    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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.