Federal contractor · SAINT LOUIS, MO

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE received $6.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 14 awards (+91% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $63.4M. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($5.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$6.4M
New awards
14
Sole-source
10%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
L6NFUM28LQM5
Other than small businessEducational institution
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 4.4MFY2017
  2. 4.4MFY2018
  3. 8.6MFY2019
  4. 6.6MFY2020
  5. 9.9MFY2021
  6. 8.9MFY2022
  7. 2.6MFY2023
  8. 8.1MFY2024
  9. 3.4MFY2025
  10. 6.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institutes of Health$5.7M88%
    9 awards
  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$548K8.5%
    1 awards
  3. Department of the Army$196.6K3.1%
    1 awards
  4. Department of Veterans Affairs$55K0.9%
    1 awards
  5. Department of the Navy-$3,1950.0%
    1 awards
  6. Offices, Boards and Divisions-$26.7K0.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$5.2M80%
  2. Professional services$1.2M19%
  3. Education & social services$51.8K0.8%

Where the work was performed

  1. St. Louis County, MO$6.4M99%
  2. Montgomery County, MD$57.5K0.9%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition9.7%
    US 39% · $625.3K
  • Sole-source awards10%
    US 30% · $650.6K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · -$25.3K
  • 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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$548K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1 awards
  2. National Institutes of Health$77.5K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 2 awards
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs$55K
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards

Exclusions in SAM.gov

Records of the SAM.gov exclusions list (parties debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or otherwise excluded) matched to this recipient by its Unique Entity ID or CAGE code.

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Largest awards

  1. THE NIH NATIONAL NEUROHIV TISSUE CONSORTIUM (NNTC) - NEW CLINICAL SITE$6.3M
    National Institutes of Health· St. Louis County, MO· Research & development· Sep 20, 2024 – Sep 9, 2026· 75N95024C00027
  2. THE PRIMARY GOAL IS THE DELINEATION OF FUNCTIONAL B CELL EPITOPES RECOGNIZED BY POTENTLY NEUTRALIZING OR PROTECTIVE ANTIBODIES TO FACILITATE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF SAFE AND EFFECTIVE VACCINES AND THERAPEUTICS.$5.5M
    National Institutes of Health· St. Louis County, MO· Research & development· Sep 12, 2024 – Jul 15, 2026· 75N93024C00070
  3. TASK ORDER FOR SINGLE-CELL SEQUENCING AND SPATIAL GENOMIC CHARACTERIZATION SUPPORT FOR CANCER RESEARCH$1.2M
    National Institutes of Health· St. Louis County, MO· Professional services· Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· 75N91026F00001
  4. TRUSS OPTICAL BENCH WILL BE UTILIZED BY THE ST14 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OFFICE ON THE SUPER - HIGH ENERGY REPLICATED OPTICS (SUPERHERO) BALLOON MISSION$548K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· St. Louis County, MO· Research & development· May 8, 2026 – May 8, 2026· 80MSFC26C0010
  5. SERDP WP25-0269 NEW START "DEFLUORINATION OF METAL-FLUOROPOLYMER COMPOSITES." GOAL - TO DEVELOP A METHOD TO REMOVE THE FLUORINE FROM METAL/FLUOROPOLYMER COMPOSITES WITHOUT INADVERTENTLY IGNITING THE MATERIAL.$321.6K
    Department of the Army· St. Louis County, MO· Research & development· May 14, 2025 – Jun 10, 2026· W912HQ25P0044
  6. HIGH PRECISION MASS SPECTROMETRY ASSAYS TO TRACK THE TEMPORAL PROGRESSION OF PLASMA AD BIOMARKERS IN BLSA PET PARTICIPANTS$267.2K
    National Institutes of Health· St. Louis County, MO· Health & medical· Aug 4, 2022 – May 8, 2026· 75N95022P00440
  7. MEDICAL RECORD ABSTRACTION SERVICES FOR PEDIATRIC PROTON AND PHOTON THERAPY COMPARISON COHORT$250K
    National Institutes of Health· St. Louis County, MO· Professional services· Oct 29, 2024 – Dec 11, 2025· 75N91025P00013
  8. MO, THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY TUITION AND FEES FOR ANNUAL TERM SEP 2025 - JUN 2026$70.2K
    Department of the Navy· St. Louis County, MO· Education & social services· Sep 29, 2025 – Jan 5, 2026· N0622A25FA593

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.

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Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

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Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

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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.

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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.

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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.