Federal contractor · MADISON, WI

W.F. BAIRD & ASSOCIATES LTD.

W.F. BAIRD & ASSOCIATES LTD. received $2.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 19 awards (−70% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $51.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($1.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.3M
New awards
19
Sole-source
44%
Single offer
44%
UEI
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Other than small businessForeign-owned

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 146.8KFY2017
  2. 2.1MFY2018
  3. 6MFY2019
  4. 1.1MFY2020
  5. 3.4MFY2021
  6. 5.5MFY2022
  7. 7.2MFY2023
  8. 16.4MFY2024
  9. 7.7MFY2025
  10. 2.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 15 awards
  2. 4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Construction & real property$1.3M56%
  2. Professional services$1M44%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition89%
    US 39% · $2M
  • Sole-source awards44%
    US 30% · $1M
  • Single-offer competitions44%
    US 8.7% · $1M
  • 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 Justice · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Department of the Army· Queens County, NY· Construction & real property· Apr 5, 2024 – Mar 13, 2026· W912DS24F0039
  2. Department of the Army· Essex County, NJ· Construction & real property· Dec 3, 2020 – Feb 17, 2026· W912DS21F0016
  3. Department of the Army· Prince George's County, MD· Construction & real property· Sep 18, 2022 – Jan 8, 2026· W912DR22F0205
  4. Department of the Army· New York County, NY· Construction & real property· May 4, 2023 – Apr 17, 2026· W912DS23F0044
  5. Offices, Boards and Divisions· Dane County, WI· Professional services· May 3, 2018 – Aug 27, 2026· 15JENR18P00000259
  6. Offices, Boards and Divisions· Dane County, WI· Professional services· Sep 20, 2024 – Aug 28, 2026· 15JENR24P00000386
  7. Department of the Army· Hudson County, NJ· Construction & real property· Apr 7, 2023 – Apr 23, 2026· W912DS23F0041
  8. Department of the Army· Richmond County, NY· Construction & real property· Sep 5, 2025 – Oct 16, 2025· W912DS25FA039

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 · $437.9K received
  • FY2022: $332.9K paid out · $635.5K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $13.4K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $40.3K 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 · $332.9K reported

  1. AQUIFER DRILLING & TESTING INC$332.9K
    MINEOLA, NY · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services

Primes that pay it

1 company · $1.1M reported

  1. HOUSTON, TX · 4 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services

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. ANCHORAGE, AK · 86% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  2. WESTON-EA JV$23.4M+5.4% in FY2026
    WEST CHESTER, PA · 86% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. HONOLULU, HI · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Architectural, engineering, and related 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.