Federal contractor · BOULDER, CO

WESTERN INTERSTATE COMMISSION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

WESTERN INTERSTATE COMMISSION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION received $1.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−26% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $19.4M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($874.4K). It also received $650K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$1.2M
New awards
2
Sole-source
26%
Single offer
74%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 260KFY2017
  2. 1.3MFY2018
  3. 1MFY2019
  4. 2.4MFY2020
  5. 2.9MFY2021
  6. 3MFY2022
  7. 3.2MFY2023
  8. 2.4MFY2024
  9. 1.6MFY2025
  10. 1.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$874.4K74%
    1 awards
  2. Indian Health Service$300K26%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Health & medical$874.4K74%
  2. Professional services$300K26%

Where the work was performed

  1. Adams County, CO$874.4K74%
  2. San Juan County, NM$300K26%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $1.2M
  • Sole-source awards26%
    US 30% · $300K
  • Single-offer competitions74%
    US 8.7% · $874.4K
  • 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. Indian Health Service$300K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SUICIDE PREVENTION$9M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Adams County, CO· Health & medical· Sep 30, 2022 – Mar 13, 2026· 36C25922C0144
  2. FY26-NNMC-WICHE-REQUIREMENT FOR INTERNSHIP COORDINATION AND OVERSIGHT$300K
    Indian Health Service· San Juan County, NM· Professional services· Aug 5, 2026 – Aug 5, 2026· 75H71026F26002

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.

WESTERN INTERSTATE COMMISSION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION received $650K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 3 actions (1 new awards). Its largest program was 93.788 · Opioid Str ($650K).

Assistance · FY2026
$650K
New awards
1
Actions
3
Since FY2021
$3.6M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 474.9KFY2021
  2. 824.4KFY2022
  3. 649.5KFY2023
  4. 1MFY2024
  5. 0FY2025
  6. 650KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$650K100%

Top programs

  1. 93.788 · Opioid Str$650K100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration$650K100%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. REGION 8 RURAL OPIOID TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE - THE WESTERN INTERSTATE COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION (WICHE) BEHAVIORAL…$1.9M
    93.243 · Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance· Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration· Project grant· Sep 15, 2022 – Dec 8, 2025· H79TI085607
  2. RURAL OPIOID TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REGIONAL CENTER (ROTA-RC) FOR HHS REGION 8 - THE MOUNTAIN PLAINS RURAL OPIOID TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER…$650K
    93.788 · Opioid Str· Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration· Project grant· Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 4, 2026· H79TI088820

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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: $187.6K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$187.6K100%
    HONOLULU, HI · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $580.1K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $280.6K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $317.6K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $155.1K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $202.7K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $187.6K 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

7 companies · $1.7M reported

  1. ARIZONA HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT SYSTEM$439.9K
    PHOENIX, AZ · 1 subaward
  2. HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$406.6K
    HONOLULU, HI · 5 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$320.8K
    GRAND FORKS, ND · 2 subawards

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

  1. AMERICAN DIRECTIONS RESEARCH GROUP INC.$5.6M−100% in FY2026
    WASHINGTON, DC · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  2. VANCRO$5.9M+273% in FY2026
    CASTLE ROCK, WA · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  3. DATA CAPTURE SOLUTIONS-REPAIR AND REMARKETING, INC$6.7M+569% in FY2026
    ELLINGTON, CT · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Other professional, scientific, and technical services

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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.

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.