Federal contractor · SILVER SPRING, MD
Z, INC.
Z, INC. received $986.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 22 awards (−41% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $33.5M. Its largest customer was Department of Energy ($986.5K).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $986.5K
- New awards
- 22
- Sole-source
- 0.0%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- WJ31QJZTKTE5
- Parent company
- Z INC
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 13.1MFY2017
- 2.8MFY2018
- 3.1MFY2019
- 3.4MFY2020
- 1.2MFY2021
- 2.2MFY2022
- 2.4MFY2023
- 2.7MFY2024
- 1.7MFY2025
- 986.5KFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Department of Energy$986.5K100%21 awards
- 1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Professional services$986.5K100%
Where the work was performed
- Prince George's County, MD$1.3M100%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition0.0%US 39% · -$74.1K
- Sole-source awards0.0%US 30% · $0
- Single-offer competitions0.0%US 8.8% · -$74.1K
- 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.
Largest awards
- Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Nov 18, 2016 – Nov 24, 2025· DEDT0009950
- Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Oct 23, 2025 – Oct 23, 2025· DEDT0002317
- Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Dec 1, 2025 – Dec 1, 2025· DEDT0002026
- Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 23, 2020 – Jan 6, 2026· 89303020FEI400074
- Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Jan 10, 2017 – Jul 15, 2026· DEDT0012724
- Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 20, 2017 – Jun 22, 2026· DEDT0014058
- Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Nov 24, 2025 – Nov 24, 2025· DEDT0001734
- Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Jan 10, 2017 – Jul 22, 2026· DEDT0012725
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: $60K (1 subaward)
1 prime
- APPRISE INC$60K100%PRINCETON, NJ · 1 subaward
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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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
1 company · $60K reported
- APPRISE INC$60KPRINCETON, NJ · 1 subaward · Management, scientific, and technical consulting 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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.
- OPEN ACCESS TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL INC$7.3M+9.8% in FY2026MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Data processing, hosting, and related services
- BLOCS LLC$5M−51% in FY2026BELTSVILLE, MD · 48% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Data processing, hosting, and related services
- IMG - CROWN ENERGY SERVICES JOINT VENTURE, LLC$32M−74% in FY2026ALEXANDRIA, VA · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Data processing, hosting, and related 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.