Federal contractor · KNOXVILLE, TN

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION received $657.9K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Its largest customer was Forest Service ($657.9K). It also received $195K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$657.9K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
BOARD OF REGENTS TENNESSEE
Other than small businessNonprofit
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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 SOUTHWEST TN COMMUNITY COLLEGE company family: 3 registered entities, $657.9K in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. SOUTHWEST TN COMMUNITY COLLEGEMEMPHIS, TN · Family page
    $0
  2. EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONJOHNSON CITY, TN
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 657.9KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Forest Service$657.9K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Construction & real property$657.9K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Knox County, TN$657.9K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $657.9K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $657.9K
  • 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. Forest Service$657.9K
    Department of Agriculture · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SOUTHERN RESEARCH STATION FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS HEADQUARTERS RENTAL$657.9K
    Forest Service· Knox County, TN· Construction & real property· Aug 14, 2026 – Aug 14, 2026· 1240BE26P0078

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 TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION received $195K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 3 actions (0 new awards), −49% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.699 · Partnership Agreements ($195K).

Assistance · FY2026
$195K
New awards
0
Actions
3
Since FY2024
$1.4M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 813KFY2024
  2. 384.9KFY2025
  3. 195KFY2026

By type

  1. Other assistance$195K100%

Top programs

  1. 10.699 · Partnership Agreements$195K100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Forest Service$195K100%
    Department of Agriculture

Largest awards

  1. UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH PARK AT CHEROKEE FARM OFFICE AND STORAGE SPACE$707.4K
    10.699 · Partnership Agreements· Forest Service· Other financial assistance· Sep 17, 2024 – Aug 13, 2026· 24CS11330145089

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 · FY2024–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.

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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

6 companies · $2.3M reported

  1. TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$1.2M
    NASHVILLE, TN · 5 subawards
  2. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$450K
    MURFREESBORO, TN · 2 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS$323.2K
    MEMPHIS, TN · 2 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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. PHILIP DAVID STRADER$505.3K
    GLIDE, OR · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Lessors of real estate
  2. ODIN SOLUTIONS LLC$1.2M
    YULEE, FL · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Lessors of real estate
  3. ELKS RECREATION, INC.$346.3K−100% in FY2026
    SANTA MARIA, CA · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Lessors of real estate

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.

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.