Federal contractor · HOUSTON, TX

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM received $270.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 11 awards (−86% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $16.5M. Its largest customer was Federal Railroad Administration ($196.7K). It also received $71.1M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$270.3K
New awards
11
Sole-source
27%
Single offer
73%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.1MFY2017
  2. 713.5KFY2018
  3. 223.6KFY2019
  4. 949.8KFY2020
  5. 558.7KFY2021
  6. 684.3KFY2022
  7. 6MFY2023
  8. 4MFY2024
  9. 2MFY2025
  10. 270.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Railroad Administration$196.7K73%
    3 awards
  2. Defense Health Agency$59.7K22%
    1 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$13.9K5.1%
    4 awards
  4. Department of the Air Force$00.0%
    1 awards
  5. U.S. Customs and Border Protection$00.0%
    1 awards
  6. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$256.4K95%
  2. Education & social services$13.9K5.1%

Where the work was performed

  1. Harris County, TX$210.6K78%
  2. Pierce County, WA$59.7K22%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100.0%
    US 39% · $270.3K
  • Sole-source awards27%
    US 30% · $73.6K
  • Single-offer competitions73%
    US 8.7% · $196.7K
  • 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. Defense Health Agency$59.7K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$13.9K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. ROBOTIC ASSISTIVE SMART TOUCH INSPECTION$660.5K
    Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement· Harris County, TX· Research & development· Aug 4, 2023 – Dec 11, 2025· 140E0123C0007
  2. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - AFFORDABLE UAS POWER GENERATION$323.1K
    Department of the Air Force· Harris County, TX· Research & development· Mar 22, 2024 – Dec 11, 2025· FA239124CB013
  3. PROCUREMENT FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ON THE ADJUSTMENT OF U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION CONSOLIDATED OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT FEE STRUCTURE.$249.2K
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection· Harris County, TX· Research & development· Sep 29, 2025 – Sep 28, 2026· 70B03C25F00001277
  4. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A RISK ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK CAPABLE OF ASSESSING THE RISK OF RAIL FAILURE ATTRIBUTED TO TRANSVERSE DEFECTS (TDS), WHILE ACCOUNTING FOR LOCATION-SPECIFIC LOCAL LINE CONDITIONS SUCH AS TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS, RAIL WEAR, WHE$196.7K
    Federal Railroad Administration· Harris County, TX· Research & development· Sep 17, 2026 – Sep 17, 2026· 693JJ626C000030
  5. RESEARCH INITIATIVES IN SUPPORT OF RAIL SAFETY TOPIC: FRA-TR-004 NEUTRAL TEMPERATURE DETERMINATION USING RELIABLE PRESSURE SENSING CERAMICS$187.1K
    Federal Railroad Administration· Harris County, TX· Research & development· Sep 3, 2024 – Jul 1, 2026· 693JJ624C000025
  6. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TO DEVELOP A FRAMEWORK USING MARKOV CHAINS TO QUANTIFY HOW DERAILMENT RISK CHANGES WHEN NEW TRACK INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES ARE INTRODUCED OR COMBINED WITH DIFFERENT MANUAL INSPECTION REGIMES.$152K
    Federal Railroad Administration· Harris County, TX· Research & development· Aug 6, 2024 – Sep 8, 2026· 693JJ624C000016
  7. RESEARCH TO DEVELOP INTERVENTION SOFTWARE FOR MILITARY-SPECIFIC PERSONALIZED NORMATIVE FEEDBACK INTERVENTION.$59.7K
    Defense Health Agency· Pierce County, WA· Research & development· Mar 4, 2026 – Jun 8, 2026· HT942626CE006
  8. TUITION AND FEES$24.8K
    Department of the Navy· Harris County, TX· Education & social services· Jul 2, 2024 – Apr 15, 2026· N0622A24F00RV

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 HOUSTON SYSTEM received $71.1M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 330 actions (65 new awards), −16% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.867 · Vision Research ($8.5M).

Assistance · FY2026
$71.1M
New awards
65
Actions
330
Since FY2021
$692.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 266.1MFY2021
  2. 88.5MFY2022
  3. 95.2MFY2023
  4. 86.7MFY2024
  5. 84.5MFY2025
  6. 71.1MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$70.7M99%
  2. Other assistance$369.8K0.5%

Top programs

  1. 93.867 · Vision Research$8.5M12%
  2. 93.307 · Minority Health and Health Disparities Research$5.3M7.5%
  3. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$4.8M6.8%
  4. 81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program$3.5M4.9%
  5. 59.037 · Small Business Development Centers$3.5M4.9%
  6. 47.049 · Mathematical and Physical Sciences$3.3M4.6%
  7. 93.173 · Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders$3M4.2%
  8. 81.135 · Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy$2.9M4.1%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$42.9M60%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. National Science Foundation$11.4M16%
  3. Department of Energy$6.3M8.9%
  4. Small Business Administration$3.5M4.9%
  5. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$3.2M4.5%
  6. Department of Education$923.3K1.3%
  7. Department of the Army$889.2K1.3%
    Department of Defense
  8. Environmental Protection Agency$500.6K0.7%

Largest awards

  1. HEALTH CENTER FOR ADDICTIONS RESEARCH AND CANCER PREVENTION$18.8M
    93.307 · Minority Health and Health Disparities Research· National Institutes of Health· Cooperative agreement· Mar 31, 2021 – Sep 14, 2026· U54MD015946
  2. CORE-VISION RESEARCH$11.6M
    93.867 · Vision Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jun 25, 2021 – Dec 16, 2025· P30EY007551
  3. SELECTED PROBLEMS IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION PHYSIC IN ALICE AT THE LHC$10.6M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Mar 23, 2021 – Sep 2, 2026· DEFG0207ER41521
  4. MECHANISM OF PHOTORECEPTOR CELL DEGENERATION$8.3M
    93.867 · Vision Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jan 12, 2021 – Jul 22, 2026· R01EY010609
  5. HOUSTON SBDC$6.7M
    59.037 · Small Business Development Centers· Small Business Administration· Grant· Nov 21, 2024 – Aug 26, 2026· SBAHQ25B0051
  6. OPTICAL COHERENCE ELASTOGRAPHY OF THE CORNEA$6.7M
    93.867 · Vision Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jun 15, 2021 – Jun 11, 2026· R01EY022362

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

  • Sub-grants: $6.5M (48 subawards)

37 sub-recipients

  1. BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$1.4M22%
    HOUSTON, TX · 6 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$431.8K6.6%
    AUSTIN, TX · 2 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON$430.3K6.6%
    HOUSTON, TX · 3 subawards
  4. THE UNIVERISTY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$377.9K5.8%
    HOUSTON, TX · 3 subawards
  5. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$300K4.6%
    CAMBRIDGE, MA · 1 subaward
  6. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$250K3.8%
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 1 subaward
  7. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$227.4K3.5%
    FAYETTEVILLE, AR · 1 subaward
  8. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$213.4K3.3%
    GAINESVILLE, FL · 1 subaward
  9. TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION$207K3.2%
    COLLEGE STATION, TX · 1 subaward
  10. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$201.2K3.1%
    LOS ANGELES, CA · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $72K (2 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $15.6M (67 subawards)

40 primes

  1. BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$6M39%
    HOUSTON, TX · 9 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON$1.7M11%
    ARLINGTON, TX · 2 subawards
  3. DUKE UNIVERSITY$1M6.4%
    DURHAM, NC · 1 subaward
  4. WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY$830.6K5.3%
    HOUSTON, TX · 5 subawards
  5. UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE$682.9K4.4%
    ANCHORAGE, AK · 3 subawards
  6. TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY$490K3.1%
    AUSTIN, TX · 4 subawards
  7. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$453K2.9%
    DALLAS, TX · 1 subaward
  8. AMPEERS LLC$380K2.4%
    HOUSTON, TX · 1 subaward
  9. BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION$360K2.3%
    RENO, NV · 1 subaward
  10. SRI INTERNATIONAL$336K2.1%
    MENLO PARK, CA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $11.2M paid out · $18.9M received
  • FY2022: $8.4M paid out · $10M received
  • FY2023: $7.4M paid out · $19.9M received
  • FY2024: $12.4M paid out · $17M received
  • FY2025: $19M paid out · $23.2M received
  • FY2026: $6.5M paid out · $15.6M 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.

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

  1. CLOUDJUNCXION INC$5M
    BRIDGEWATER, NJ · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. SYMETRICA INC$5.2M−99% in FY2026
    MAYNARD, MA · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. FASTLION ENERGY INC.$4.7M−100% in FY2026
    STATE COLLEGE, PA · 75% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development 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 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.

Matched organizations

  • University of Houston SystemAI match · 100%
  • University of HoustonAI match · 95%
Lobbying · 2025
$40K
11 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$152K
$152K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$42K
    8 reports
  2. 2024$40K
    8 reports
  3. 2025$40K
    11 reports
  4. 2026$30K
    5 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations32 reports
  2. Education27 reports
  3. Energy and nuclear16 reports
  4. Sports and athletics9 reports
  5. Health issues8 reports
  6. Alcohol and drug abuse1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES32 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE32 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. HB STRATEGIES$570K
    12 reports
  2. CT Group fka CTF GLOBAL LLC$225K
    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 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 Sep 30, 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.