Federal contractor · LAKE FOREST, IL

W.W. GRAINGER, INC.

W.W. GRAINGER, INC. received $343.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 153,390 awards (−4.2% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $2.3B. Its largest customer was Federal Acquisition Service ($340.2M).

Obligations · FY2026: $343.2M
New awards: 153,390
Sole-source: 0.1%
Single offer: 0.1%

UEI: DBQGN324ULK3

Other than small business

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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.

8 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $343.2M in FY2026 together.

W.W. GRAINGER, INC.LAKE FOREST, IL · Family page
Reported parent$343.2M
IMPERIAL SUPPLIES LLCGREEN BAY, WI
Reported parent$43.9K
E & R INDUSTRIAL SALES INCSTERLING HEIGHTS, MI
Reported parent$0
GHC SPECIALTY BRANDS, LLCJANESVILLE, WI
Reported parent$0
GHC SPECIALTY BRANDS, LLCJANESVILLE, WI
Reported parent$0
SAFETY SOLUTIONS, INC.DUBLIN, OH
Reported parent$0
W. W. GRAINGER, INC.BOSTON, MA
Reported parent$0
W. W. GRAINGER, INC.ATLANTA, GA
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

76MFY2017
108MFY2018
158MFY2019
224.2MFY2020
197.8MFY2021
209.8MFY2022
263.8MFY2023
319.7MFY2024
358.2MFY2025
343.2MFY2026
1.7MFY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Federal Acquisition Service$340.2M99%
153,214 awards
Federal Aviation Administration$908.6K0.3%
17 awards
Indian Health Service$333.7K0.1%
17 awards
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$315.5K0.1%
11 awards
Agricultural Research Service$264.2K0.1%
6 awards
Department of Veterans Affairs$223.7K0.1%
7 awards
U.S. Coast Guard$221.6K0.1%
10 awards
Department of State$206.4K0.1%
32 awards
Federal Prison Industries / Unicor$143.5K0.0%
6 awards
Department of the Air Force$69.1K0.0%
5 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$342.9M99.9%
Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$234.7K0.1%
Construction & real property$43.4K0.0%
IT & telecom$23.4K0.0%
Health & medical$7,0020.0%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition0.2%
US 39% · $827.4K
Sole-source awards0.1%
US 30% · $491K
Single-offer competitions0.1%
US 8.7% · $336.4K
Urgency justifications0.0%
US 5.1% · $85K

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 Veterans Affairs$153.2K
Department of Veterans Affairs · 4 awards
U.S. Coast Guard$124.4K
Department of Homeland Security · 2 awards
National Institutes of Health$63.6K
Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards
Federal Aviation Administration$50K
Department of Transportation · 1 awards
Defense Logistics Agency$41.2K
Department of Defense · 13 awards

Largest awards

ALUM HEAVY CABLE REEL STORAGE RACK$2.4M
Federal Acquisition Service· Lake County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· 47QSCC26F76JE
MODULAR OFFICE WORKSTATION PKG. - L$2.1M
Federal Acquisition Service· Lake County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 31, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026· 47QSCC26F6MSC
(A)MODULAR WASH RACK SYS. - M$2M
Federal Acquisition Service· Lake County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 30, 2026 – Jul 30, 2026· 47QSCC26F5UCY
LAMINATE WORK TABLE 30X72,30MM SURF,HP$1.8M
Federal Acquisition Service· Lake County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 8, 2026 – Jul 8, 2026· 47QSCC26F5AWA
SOFT TOUGH WORKBENCH HEIGHT CHAIR, BLACK$1.7M
Federal Acquisition Service· Lake County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 3, 2026 – Jun 3, 2026· 47QSCC26F4QPB
(A)ELECTRONIC TOOLCABINET3 56X24X55TOOLS$1.7M
Federal Acquisition Service· Lake County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 17, 2026 – Mar 17, 2026· 47QSCC26F2TZF
ELECTROMAGNETIC LOCK,INPUT 1.5VDC$1.5M
Federal Acquisition Service· Lake County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 4, 2026 – Mar 4, 2026· 47QSCC26F2HK4
F-35 MAINT STAND RAILS & CASTERS, 1 OF 8$1.4M
Federal Acquisition Service· Lake County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 4, 2025 – Dec 4, 2025· 47QSCC26F0H1E

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-contracts: $1M (12 subawards)

10 primes

GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.$215.3K21%
FAIRFAX, VA · 2 subawards
SERCO INC$128.1K13%
HERNDON, VA · 1 subaward
HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC$119.9K12%
PASCAGOULA, MS · 1 subaward
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SERVICES, LLC$98.3K9.8%
HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward
GENERAL DYNAMICS ORDNANCE AND TACTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.$94.4K9.4%
SCRANTON, PA · 2 subawards
AMENTUM SPACEPORT LLC$90K9.0%
ARLINGTON, VA · 1 subaward
SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC$80.3K8.0%
ENGLEWOOD, CO · 1 subaward
CACI, INC. - FEDERAL$67.8K6.7%
CHANTILLY, VA · 1 subaward
AAR GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC.$66.2K6.6%
WOOD DALE, IL · 1 subaward
TEXTRON SYSTEMS CORPORATION$43.8K4.4%
NEW ORLEANS, LA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $2.4M received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.3M received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $3.3M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $6.5M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $3.1M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $1M 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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

41 companies · $17.6M reported

HEALTH, LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF$4.4M
NEW ORLEANS, LA · 1 subaward
ASRC FEDERAL FACILITIES LOGISTICS, LLC$4M
FAIRFIELD, NJ · 43 subawards · Other miscellaneous manufacturing
ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$1.4M
GROTON, CT · 24 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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

MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO., INC.$292.5M+2.7% in FY2026
MELVILLE, NY · 5 entities · 27% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · Building material and supplies dealers
WINSTON-SALEM INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND INC$98M−57% in FY2026
WINSTON SALEM, NC · 3 entities · 0.7% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · Building material and supplies dealers
GRAYBAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.$11.5M+38% in FY2026
SAINT LOUIS, MO · 86 entities · 0.1% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Other electrical equipment and component manufacturingFederal Aviation Administration · Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers

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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 W.W. GRAINGER, INC. (8 recipients).

Matched organizations

W.W. Grainger, Inc.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $200K; 6 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $560K

Lobbying by year

2023$80K
9 reports
2024$80K
4 reports
2025$200K
6 reports
2026$200K
4 reports

Top issues

Budget and appropriations10 reports
Government issues8 reports
Defense6 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. SENATE18 reports
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES17 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

AxAdvocacy Government Relations$390K
14 reports
K&L GATES LLP$160K
4 reports
Clark Hill, PLC$10K
1 reports
HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$0
4 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 Oct 6, 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. 3838 · Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20264 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025–2026
S. 2296 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20264 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025–2026
H.R. 9595 · FIT Procurement Act1 report
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024

5 of 23 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.