Federal contractor · NASHVILLE, TN

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY received $6.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+8.6% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $29.4M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($4.9M).

Obligations · FY2026: $6.2M
New awards: 3
Sole-source: 79%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: CU5LDY9V2M76
Parent company: THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Other than small businessNonprofitEducational 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 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER company family: 4 registered entities, $43.8M in FY2026 together. See the family

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERNASHVILLE, TN · Family page
AI name match · 100%$36M
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITYNASHVILLE, TN
AI name match · 100%$1.6M
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THENASHVILLE, TN
AI name match · 98%$0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-30

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

141.9KFY2017
105.9KFY2018
218.3KFY2019
1.9MFY2020
3.1MFY2021
3.6MFY2022
3.7MFY2023
4.9MFY2024
5.7MFY2025
6.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Navy$4.9M79%
2 awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.3M21%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Education & social services$4.9M79%
Research & development$1.3M21%

Where the work was performed

Davidson County, TN$6.2M100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition79%
US 39% · $4.9M
Sole-source awards79%
US 30% · $4.9M
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

Department of the Navy$4.9M
Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND SCIENCE MANAGEMENT TEAM SUPPORT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE POLARIZED SUBMILLIMETER ICE-CLOUD RADIOMETER INSTRUMENT MISSION FOR THE NASA LIFE CYCLE FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION PHASES A THOUGH F.$3M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Davidson County, TN· Research & development· Nov 27, 2023 – Sep 10, 2026· 80LARC24CA001
SPRING 2026 NROTC MIDN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$2.5M
Department of the Navy· Davidson County, TN· Education & social services· Feb 20, 2026 – Mar 2, 2026· N3560A26FB109
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY FALL 2025 TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$2.4M
Department of the Navy· Davidson County, TN· Education & social services· Sep 19, 2025 – Mar 24, 2026· N3560A25FB245

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: $174.8K (1 subaward)

1 prime

BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$174.8K100%
OMAHA, NE · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2022: $0 paid out · $376K received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $430.2K received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $176.8K received
FY2025: $34.7K paid out · $200K received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $174.8K 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 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

498 companies · $1.3B reported

FRIENDS IN GLOBAL HEALTH, LLC$149.5M
NASHVILLE, TN · 5 subawards
THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC$134.5M
CAMBRIDGE, MA · 25 subawards
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE$40.8M
NASHVILLE, TN · 132 subawards

Primes that pay it

235 companies · $565.6M reported

TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$45.3M
NASHVILLE, TN · 117 subawards
STATE OF TENNESSEE$36.6M
NASHVILLE, TN · 14 subawards
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE$18.7M
SAINT LOUIS, MO · 80 subawards · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE$27.1M+2.7% in FY2026
LOUISVILLE, KY · 3 entities · 19% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Colleges, universities, and professional schoolsNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER, INC.$26.7M+19% in FY2026
WASHINGTON, DC · 19% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
MEDICAL FACULTY ASSOCIATES, INC.$32.5M+47% in FY2026
WASHINGTON, DC · 18% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Colleges, universities, and professional schools

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.

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 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (4 recipients).

Matched organizations

Vanderbilt UniversityAI match · 100%
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $1.2M; 19 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $2.8M; $2.8M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$450K
8 reports
2024$430K
8 reports
2025$1.2M
19 reports
2026$680K
10 reports

Top issues

Budget and appropriations30 reports
Medical and disease research, clinical labs28 reports
Education22 reports
Health issues21 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code21 reports
Defense20 reports
Science and technology20 reports
Veterans20 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES45 reports
U.S. SENATE44 reports
Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA)9 reports
Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)6 reports
Defense - Dept of (DOD)6 reports
Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)5 reports
Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)3 reports
White House Office3 reports
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)1 reports
Office of Policy Development1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

BALLARD PARTNERS$510K
6 reports
ATLAS CROSSING LLC$270K
6 reports
WASHINGTON NAVIGATORS$93.6K
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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.10 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025–2026
H.R. 2389 · Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 20235 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
H.R. 2584 · SAVE Act5 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
H.R. 3635 · Save Rural Hospitals Act of 20235 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
H.R. 5933 · DETERRENT Act5 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
H.R. 6585 · Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act5 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
H.R. 9029 · Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20255 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
S. 1302 · Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 20235 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
S. 2768 · SAVE Act5 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
S. 803 · Save Rural Hospitals Act of 20235 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024

28 of 45 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

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.