Federal contractor · MADISON, WI

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM received $891.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+3% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $10.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($891.5K).

Obligations · FY2026
$891.5K
New awards
3
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
DU31CJWGFKU1
Other than small businessEducational institutionGovernment entity
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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 WISCONSIN SYSTEM company family: 11 registered entities, $8.2M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMMADISON, WI · Family page
    $4.4M
  2. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMMADISON, WI
    $2.7M
  3. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMMADISON, WI
    $277.4K
  4. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMMADISON, WI
    $0
  5. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMSUPERIOR, WI
    $0

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

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1MFY2017
  2. 1.4MFY2018
  3. 1MFY2019
  4. 1.2MFY2020
  5. 1.2MFY2021
  6. 1.1MFY2022
  7. 1.1MFY2023
  8. 661.9KFY2024
  9. 865.6KFY2025
  10. 891.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$891.5K100%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$891.5K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Dane County, WI$891.5K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $891.5K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $891.5K
  • 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 the Navy$891.5K
    Department of Defense · 3 awards

Largest awards

  1. FALL 2025 RETROACTIVE TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES FOR TWENTY-TWO MIDSHIPMEN$472.8K
    Department of the Navy· Dane County, WI· Education & social services· Jan 6, 2026 – Jan 6, 2026· N3560A26FB072
  2. SPRING 26 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$411.2K
    Department of the Navy· Dane County, WI· Education & social services· Mar 3, 2026 – Mar 3, 2026· N3560A26FB146
  3. RATIFICATION OF GOVERNMENT-AT-FALUT RETROACTIVE TUITION FOR SUMMER 2025 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$7,458
    Department of the Navy· Dane County, WI· Education & social services· Apr 15, 2026 – Apr 15, 2026· N3560A26FB070

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 · $53.8K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $53.9K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $45K 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

540 companies · $668.3M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$31.1M
    SEATTLE, WA · 61 subawards
  2. WISCONSIN CHEESE-MAKERS' ASSOCIATION$28.4M
    MADISON, WI · 7 subawards
  3. TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY$14.1M
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 33 subawards

Primes that pay it

290 companies · $559.9M reported

  1. STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES$45M
    MADISON, WI · 180 subawards
  2. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$34.7M
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 68 subawards
  3. THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$21M
    PRINCETON, NJ · 17 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 43 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES$57M−12% in FY2026
    LOS ANGELES, CA · 64% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · Scientific research and development servicesNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development services+4 more
  2. MAGNIX USA INC$11.3M
    EVERETT, WA · 31% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. VISTA PHOTONICS, INC$12.7M−90% in FY2026
    LAS CRUCES, NM · 31% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · 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.

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.