Federal contractor · TUSCALOOSA, AL

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA received $600.1K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−6.2% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $8.8M. Its largest customer was National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ($439.8K). It also received $152.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$600.1K
New awards
6
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
RCNJEHZ83EV6
Parent company
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Other than small businessNonprofitEducational institution

Company family

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

Part of the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM company family: 2 registered entities, $17M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMBIRMINGHAM, AL · Family page
    $16.4M

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 423.9KFY2017
  2. 974.1KFY2018
  3. 1.3MFY2019
  4. 660.3KFY2020
  5. 816.5KFY2021
  6. 1.5MFY2022
  7. 1.3MFY2023
  8. 493KFY2024
  9. 639.6KFY2025
  10. 600.1KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 3 awards
  2. 1 awards
  3. 1 awards
  4. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$260.2K43%
  2. Facilities & utilities$179.6K30%
  3. Professional services$160.4K27%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $600.1K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $600.1K
  • 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. Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Department of the Army· Tuscaloosa County, AL· Research & development· May 3, 2018 – May 28, 2026· W912HQ18C0025
  2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Tuscaloosa County, AL· IT & telecom· May 26, 2022 – Apr 23, 2026· 1305M322CNWWY0003
  3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Tuscaloosa County, AL· Facilities & utilities· May 12, 2022 – May 8, 2026· 1305M322CNWWY0006
  4. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Tuscaloosa County, AL· Facilities & utilities· Jan 29, 2024 – Feb 5, 2026· 1305M324C0001
  5. National Institutes of Health· Tuscaloosa County, AL· Professional services· Jan 13, 2025 – Jul 21, 2026· 75N98025P00775
  6. Department of the Navy· Tuscaloosa County, AL· Professional services· Nov 13, 2025 – May 12, 2026· N0017326P5203

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.

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA received $152.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 832 actions (101 new awards), +2.9% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($46.7M).

Assistance · FY2026
$152.2M
New awards
101
Actions
832
Since FY2021
$1.1B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 135.3MFY2021
  2. 155.4MFY2022
  3. 274.6MFY2023
  4. 192.1MFY2024
  5. 147.9MFY2025
  6. 152.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$102.7M67%
  2. Direct payments$48.9M32%
  3. Other assistance$602.2K0.4%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$46.7M31%
  2. 11.432 · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cooperative Institutes$29.5M19%
  3. 84.411 · Education Innovation and Research (Formerly Investing in Innovation (I3) FUND)$10M6.6%
  4. 47.083 · Integrative Activities$5.7M3.7%
  5. 15.808 · U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection$4.3M2.8%
  6. 47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering$4.1M2.7%
  7. 47.049 · Mathematical and Physical Sciences$4M2.6%
  8. 47.041 · Engineering$3.4M2.2%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Commerce
  2. Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Department of the Interior
  4. Department of Defense
  5. Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. 11.432 · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cooperative Institutes· National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Cooperative agreement· Apr 4, 2022 – Aug 21, 2026· NA22NWS4320003
  2. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 12, 2025 – Sep 14, 2026· P063P250007
  3. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 14, 2024 – Jul 22, 2026· P063P240007
  4. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 5, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P260007
  5. 12.630 · Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering· Washington Headquarters Services· Cooperative agreement· Sep 10, 2024 – Jul 13, 2026· HQ00342420014
  6. 84.411 · Education Innovation and Research (Formerly Investing in Innovation (I3) FUND)· Department of Education· Project grant· Jul 30, 2026 – Jul 30, 2026· S411B260072

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 · 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: $18.7M (84 subawards)

44 sub-recipients

  1. LOGAN, UT · 8 subawards
  2. DURHAM, NC · 7 subawards
  3. MOBILE, AL · 3 subawards
  4. COLLEGE STATION, TX · 2 subawards
  5. MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 4 subawards
  6. IOWA CITY, IA · 4 subawards
  7. BOSTON, MA · 1 subaward
  8. FARGO, ND · 1 subaward
  9. ARLINGTON, MA · 2 subawards
  10. HOBOKEN, NJ · 4 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $6.4M (42 subawards)

29 primes

  1. ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF$1.3M21%
    MONTGOMERY, AL · 4 subawards
  2. CLEMSON, SC · 1 subaward
  3. FORT COLLINS, CO · 3 subawards
  4. HOBOKEN, NJ · 2 subawards
  5. MONTGOMERY, AL · 3 subawards
  6. GREENSBORO, NC · 3 subawards
  7. HONOLULU, HI · 1 subaward
  8. PRAIRIE VIEW, TX · 1 subaward
  9. MELBOURNE, FL · 1 subaward
  10. HUNTSVILLE, AL · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $26.1M paid out · $28.7M received
  • FY2022: $15.5M paid out · $17.2M received
  • FY2023: $38.1M paid out · $16.8M received
  • FY2024: $36.2M paid out · $19.4M received
  • FY2025: $37.3M paid out · $12.8M received
  • FY2026: $18.7M paid out · $6.4M 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

449 companies · $583.1M reported

  1. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, AL · 30 subawards
  2. JACKSON, MS · 67 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC · 40 subawards

Primes that pay it

250 companies · $398M reported

  1. MONTGOMERY, AL · 92 subawards
  2. NASHVILLE, TN · 45 subawards
  3. AUSTIN, TX · 22 subawards · Scientific research and development 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 26 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. NEW YORK, NY · 3 entities · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development servicesNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools+1 more
  2. LAFAYETTE, LA · 37% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development servicesNational Institutes of Health · Other animal production
  3. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$34.8M−33% in FY2026
    MADISON, WI · 11 entities · 47% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development servicesNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools+1 more

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • University of Alabama Health SystemAI match · 97%
Lobbying · 2025
$110K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2025–2026
$140K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2025$110K
    4 reports
  2. 2026$30K
    1 reports

Top issues

  1. Health issues5 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES5 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE5 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. Baker & Hostetler LLP$140K
    5 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.