Federal contractor · BANGOR, ME

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM received $2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Since FY2025: $2M. Its largest customer was Food and Drug Administration ($2M). It also received $2.7M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$2M
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessEducational 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.

Part of the UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM company family: 5 registered entities, $2.1M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEMORONO, ME · Family page
    $77.2K
  2. UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEMORONO, ME
    $0
  3. UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEMORONO, ME
    $0
  4. UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEMPORTLAND, ME
    $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 0FY2025
  2. 2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Food and Drug Administration$2M100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$2M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Penobscot County, ME$2M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. EO 14398-BAA FY26C1JP17 - DETERMINING THE PHARMACOKINETICS OF PFAS CONTAMINATION IN DAIRY CATTLE ACROSS LACTATIONS$2M
    Food and Drug Administration· Penobscot County, ME· Research & development· Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 75F40126C00120

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 MAINE SYSTEM received $2.7M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 26 actions (13 new awards). Its largest program was 32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries ($2.7M).

Assistance · FY2026
$2.7M
New awards
13
Actions
26
Since FY2021
$15.9M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 1.9MFY2021
  2. 5.4MFY2022
  3. 927.9KFY2023
  4. 4.9MFY2024
  5. 2.7MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$2.7M100%

Top programs

  1. 32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries$2.7M100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Federal Communications Commission$2.7M100%

Largest awards

  1. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES$670.2K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 30, 2024 – Feb 28, 2026· SL-2499019488
  2. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$656.7K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Feb 28, 2026 – Feb 28, 2026· SL-2599017104
  3. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$509.7K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Feb 28, 2026 – Feb 28, 2026· SL-2599017105
  4. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES$508.6K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 30, 2024 – Feb 28, 2026· SL-2499019489
  5. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$506.4K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Feb 28, 2026 – Feb 28, 2026· SL-2599017106
  6. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES$505.4K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 30, 2024 – Feb 28, 2026· SL-2499019490

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $616.4K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $146K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $145.2K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $351.8K 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

165 companies · $97.8M reported

  1. BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES$15.2M
    EAST BOOTHBAY, ME · 10 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE$12M
    BURLINGTON, VT · 14 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$6.8M
    DURHAM, NH · 15 subawards

Primes that pay it

103 companies · $87.8M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$11M
    DENVER, CO · 6 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE$8.4M
    BURLINGTON, VT · 38 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$5.8M
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 4 subawards

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

  1. GSI ENVIRONMENTAL INC.$16.4M−35% in FY2026
    HOUSTON, TX · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY$16M+15% in FY2026
    LAS CRUCES, NM · 6 entities · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. BENNETT AEROSPACE INC$17.6M+2.6% in FY2026
    RALEIGH, NC · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · 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 UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM (5 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • University of Maine SystemAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$200K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$650K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$150K
    3 reports
  2. 2024$200K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$200K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$100K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations11 reports
  2. Defense8 reports
  3. Education8 reports
  4. Agriculture7 reports
  5. Homeland security2 reports
  6. Environment and Superfund1 reports
  7. Telecommunications1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES9 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE9 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. Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.$650K
    13 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.