Federal contractor · THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY received $3.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+66% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $16.3M. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($3.2M). It also received $5.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$3.3M
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
4.5%
UEI
CRPQN9NU7X28
Other than small businessEducational institution
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 99.3KFY2017
  2. 20KFY2019
  3. 0FY2020
  4. 3.2MFY2022
  5. 4.5MFY2023
  6. 3.1MFY2024
  7. 2MFY2025
  8. 3.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institutes of Health$3.2M95%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Army$150K4.5%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$3.3M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Abroad$3.3M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition4.5%
    US 39% · $150K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions4.5%
    US 8.7% · $150K
  • 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. ADVANCING VACCINE ADJUVANT RESEARCH FOR TUBERCULOSIS$14.1M
    National Institutes of Health· Research & development· Aug 30, 2022 – Aug 28, 2026· 75N93022C00041
  2. AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE (AUV)$150K
    Department of the Army· Research & development· Dec 29, 2025 – Dec 29, 2025· W911NF26CA003

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 SYDNEY received $5.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 129 actions (4 new awards), +24% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 12.420 · Military Medical Research and Development ($1.2M).

Assistance · FY2026
$5.2M
New awards
4
Actions
129
Since FY2021
$26.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2.5MFY2021
  2. 2.5MFY2022
  3. 3.5MFY2023
  4. 8.4MFY2024
  5. 4.2MFY2025
  6. 5.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$5.2M100%

Top programs

  1. 12.420 · Military Medical Research and Development$1.2M23%
  2. 12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research$911.3K17%
  3. 93.273 · Alcohol Research Programs$748.7K14%
  4. 93.855 · Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research$736.9K14%
  5. 12.431 · Basic Scientific Research$727.8K14%
  6. 93.393 · Cancer Cause and Prevention Research$481.6K9.2%
  7. 93.279 · Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs$267.5K5.1%
  8. 93.310 · Trans-NIH Research Support$154.8K3.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$2.4M46%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Defense Health Agency$1.2M23%
    Department of Defense
  3. Department of the Navy$911.3K17%
    Department of Defense
  4. Department of the Army$727.8K14%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. BRAIN TISSUE RESOURCE CENTRE FOR ALCOHOL RESEARCH$6.6M
    93.273 · Alcohol Research Programs· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Aug 2, 2021 – Aug 25, 2026· R28AA012725
  2. HEROIC PROSTATE CANCER PRECISION HEALTH (PCAPH) AFRICA1K: POWERING PRECISION HEALTH TO IMPROVE PROSTATE CANCER OUTCOMES IN AFRICA$4.8M
    12.420 · Military Medical Research and Development· Defense Health Agency· Project grant· Sep 18, 2024 – Aug 5, 2026· HT94252411116
  3. NEW START SUPPORTING IARPA ENTANGLED LOGICAL QUBITS (ELQ)$2M
    12.431 · Basic Scientific Research· Department of the Army· Cooperative agreement· Sep 14, 2023 – Aug 25, 2026· W911NF2320223
  4. THE ROLE OF THE LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS IN THE BALANCE OF LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR TOWARDS RELEVANT STIMULI - PROJECT SUMMARY RELAPSE IS A MAJOR…$1.5M
    93.279 · Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Sep 21, 2022 – Jun 30, 2026· R01DA054967
  5. GENOMIC BASES FOR AFRICAN GEO-ETHNIC PROSTATE CANCER HEALTH DISPARITY - GENOMIC BASES FOR AFRICAN GEO-ETHNIC PROSTATE CANCER HEALTH…$1.5M
    93.393 · Cancer Cause and Prevention Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Mar 22, 2024 – May 7, 2026· R01CA285772
  6. MAPPING THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL RISKS AND CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL USE IN ADOLESCENCE AND ACROSS THE LIFESPAN - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT…$1.2M
    93.310 · Trans-NIH Research Support· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Sep 15, 2023 – Sep 2, 2026· R01AA030575

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

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $1.2M (7 subawards)

4 primes

  1. YALE UNIV$981.2K83%
    NEW HAVEN, CT · 4 subawards
  2. GEISINGER CLINIC$97.5K8.3%
    DANVILLE, PA · 1 subaward
  3. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE$60.6K5.1%
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 1 subaward
  4. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$42.1K3.6%
    MADISON, WI · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $108K paid out · $2.4M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.9M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $2.7M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $933.2K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.2M 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

1 company · $108K reported

  1. LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE$108K
    LONDON, GBR · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

33 companies · $11M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$1.1M
    MADISON, WI · 7 subawards
  2. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE$1M
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 5 subawards
  3. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$984.2K
    BOSTON, MA · 14 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 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 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. ICON GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.$8.2M+1,164% in FY2026
    HINCKLEY, OH · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development services
  2. BLACKSMITH MEDICINES, INC.$8.2M
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development services
  3. ACCESS TO ADVANCED HEALTH INSTITUTE$7.4M
    SEATTLE, WA · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.