USAspending.gov · Parent recipient
The University of Iowa
According to USAspending.gov, The University of Iowa ranks among the smallest federal contractors by lifetime obligations in this dataset
- Corpus rank
- #4,937 of 5,000
- Lifetime awards
- $26.9M
- UEI
- Z1H9VJS8NG16
- Percentile · bottom quartile nationally
- 1st
The University of Iowa vs all tracked contractors by lifetime obligations
Where this recipient's cumulative award total sits among every tracked prime, USAspending.gov lifetime ledgers
$26,944,835 1st percentile higher than 1% of 5,000 contractors
Contractors, banded by lifetime obligation dollars
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Source USAspending.gov · 2026-09-12
The University of Iowa federal award total
The University of Iowa is a tracked USAspending.gov prime recipient; this page reports its lifetime obligations across every award action filed under one recipient ID.
PlainFedContract reports USAspending.gov /recipient/ lifetime ledgers for The University of Iowa: cumulative prime obligations on this recipient ID, not a single fiscal year. Lifetime totals can exceed one year's national pool; do not read the scale bar as an annual share. Open linked agency or state breakdowns when present; see /methodology/#populations/.
Reading The University of Iowa's Federal Contract Record
According to USAspending.gov, The University of Iowa has accumulated federal contract obligations over its tracked history at the parent recipient level.
The University of Iowa ranks among the smallest federal contractors by lifetime obligations in this dataset, #4,937 of 5,000 tracked recipients, same order as the top-contractors rankings.
To see what makes up the header figures, read the largest awards, the year-by-year trend and the nearest peers below. See methodology.
How to read this obligation total (lifetime ledger, not annual spend)
This figure is a rolling aggregate of every prime-award action ever reported for this recipient ID, new awards, modifications, option exercises, and de-obligations all flow into the same total, so the dollar amount shown above is a lifetime ledger rather than an annual budget. Interpreting it as a single-year spend would overstate current activity; interpreting it as a guaranteed revenue stream would overstate commitment, because modifications can cut scope or scope can simply lapse unexercised. The parent classification also matters for how this record should be read: prime recipients hold the contract directly with a federal agency and are fully responsible for performance; parent-level rollups aggregate awards across subsidiaries, which can inflate totals for large conglomerates whose operating units compete separately. The UEI in the header is the post-2022 federal identifier that replaced the DUNS number, it persists across name changes, acquisitions, and reorganizations, making it the most reliable anchor for tracking this entity over time. For researchers, journalists, and procurement staff, the practical layer under this total is verification: USAspending.gov exposes every underlying transaction by award ID, so any totals on this page can be reconstructed action-by-action through the agency's advanced search. Contract amounts displayed here reflect obligations, money the government has committed, not outlays, which is cash actually disbursed, and the gap between obligation and outlay can span multiple fiscal years on multi-year contracts, so a large obligation total does not imply equivalent cash flow in any single period.
The University of Iowa's federal contractor value score
One verdict number from this portal's own compiled award data, benchmarked against the tracked contractor corpus: scale, recent momentum, and revenue consistency.
- Contract scale F $26,944,835 Total tracked federal contract value
- Recent momentum N/A N/A Most recent tracked year vs. the prior year
- Revenue consistency N/A N/A Year-over-year variation across every tracked year
Higher scale, stronger recent momentum, and steadier year-over-year revenue all score higher. A dimension with too little tracked history for this recipient drops out and its weight redistributes across the rest -- it never silently lowers the score. Full method: federal contractor value score.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Nationwide similar contractors
Data-derived peers across the USAspending recipient extract: nearest lifetime obligation total and nearest represented-agency count. Not geography, name-group siblings, or recommendations.
Closest lifetime-obligation totals
- Fedwriters, Inc. $26.9M
- Fedwriters, Inc. $26.9M
- Ptc Inc. $26.9M
- Ptc Inc. $26.9M
- Sysco Raleigh, LLC $27.0M
- Nisga'a Ciops LLC $26.9M
The University of Iowa's largest tracked contracts
The 5 largest individual contract awards on file for this recipient, direct from USAspending.gov: not the lifetime aggregate above, but the actual awards behind it.
THE TANDEM RECONNECTION AND CUSP ELECTRODYNAMICS RECONNAISSANCE SATELLITE (TRACERS) IS PROPOSED BY THE CONTRACTOR IN RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL AERONAUTIC AND SPACE ADMINSTRATION'S (NASA) 2016 HELIOPHYSICS SMALL EXPLORER (SMEX) ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY (AO). THIS STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW) DESCRIBES THE WORK TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE CONTRACTOR DURING THE PHASE A (TRACERS) PROJECT. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY PERSONNEL, MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, AND FACILITIES TO PRODUCE THE TRACERS PHASE A CONCEPT STUDY REPORT (CSR) THAT ENCOMPASSES: 1. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR PROGRAM OFFICE (PIPO). 2. INSTRUMENT SYSTEM ENGINEERING, INCLUDING INSTRUMENT MISSION ASSURANCE. 3. DESIGN OF A FLIGHT QUALIFIED TRACERS INSTRUMENT MEETING MISSION AND SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS. 4. DEVELOP PLANS IN SUPPORT OF INTEGRATION AND TEST OF THE TRACERS INSTRUMENT FLIGHT SYSTEM. 5. DEVELOP PLANS IN SUPPORT OF ESSENTIAL FIELD OPERATIONS. 6. DEVELOP PLANS IN SUPPORT OF LAUNCH OPERATIONS, FLIGHT OPERATIONS. 7. DEVELOP PLANS FOR AND LEAD THE TRACERS SCIENCE INVESTIGATION, AS WELL AS THE GENERATION OF RESULTING DATA PRODUCTS. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE A BRIEFING ON THE TRACERS SCIENCE AND SCIENCE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AT THE PHASE A SITE VISIT. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE AN ORGANIZATION CHART DEFINING THE CONTRACTOR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, REPORTING PROCEDURES, AND LINES OF AUTHORITY. PARTICIPATE IN DEFINING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CONTRACTOR PIPO AND THE NASA EXPLORERS PROGRAM OFFICE. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DEVELOP A TRACERS INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT AND A TRACERS MISSION SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DEVELOP DETAILED BLOCK DIAGRAMS AND TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL CONDUCT IN-DEPTH INSTRUMENT-LEVEL REVIEWS OF THE PROPOSED INSTRUMENT DESIGN. CONDUCT ESSENTIAL TRADE STUDIES, ANALYSES, MODELING AND SIMULATIONS TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH INSTRUMENT REQUIREMENTS. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL LEAD THE SCIENCE TEAM. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DEVELOP AN INSTRUMENT-LEVEL TEST PLAN AND PARTICIPATE IN PLANNING FOR INTEGRATION AND TEST. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PREPARE A DETAILED INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE COVERING ALL MISSION PHASES, LISTING MAJOR MILESTONES AND INCLUDING A DEFINED CRITICAL PATH AND SCHEDULE RESERVES. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PREPARE UPDATED INSTRUMENT BUDGETS AND REVIEW AND APPROVE THE OVERALL TRACERS BUDGET. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PREPARE AND SUBMIT THE CONCEPT STUDY REPORT.
Award 80GSFC18C0008 · 2018-03-05 to 2026-11-30
SURVEILLANCE, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND END RESULTS (SEER) PROGRAM
Award 75N91018F00001 · 2018-05-01 to 2027-04-30
Award 00261200305D261035143 · 2003-05-15 to 2010-07-31
BIOMEDICAL (APPLIED/EXPLORATORY)
Award HHSN272200800008C · 2007-11-01 to 2018-09-30
TAS::75 0849::TAS SURVEILLANCE, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND END RESULTS PROGRAM
Award HHSN261201000032C · 2010-08-01 to 2013-09-29
Disclaimer: This data is for informational purposes only. Contract amounts are aggregated from USAspending.gov and may not reflect the most current data. Do not use this data for business decisions without verifying with official sources.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where does The University of Iowa rank among tracked federal contractors?
Tracked recipients are ordered by USAspending.gov lifetime obligation totals, the same sort as the top-contractors rankings; The University of Iowa's position is the Corpus rank in the header at the top of this page.
How much has The University of Iowa received in federal contracts?
The lifetime total is the Lifetime awards figure in the header at the top of this page. It sums every prime-award action reported under this recipient ID on USAspending.gov, modifications included, so it is a running ledger rather than one year's spending.
What is the UEI for The University of Iowa?
The Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) is shown in the header stat rail above; it is recorded at the parent recipient level.
Where does The University of Iowa's contract data come from?
All contract data for The University of Iowa is sourced from USAspending.gov prime-award records. No agency- or state-level breakdown is on file for this contractor.
How this record relates to the rest of the data
USAspending publishes 2 separate recipient records under the name The University of Iowa. This page covers one of them – the parent-level record registered as UEI Z1H9VJS8NG16, one of several the source reports at a similar size. The same registration also appears at the other recipient level.
- Child record · UEI Z1H9VJS8NG16 same registration $26.9M
Each record carries its own lifetime total as published by the source. Those totals overlap across recipient levels without a stated rule, so they are separate attributions and must not be added together to reach a company-wide figure.
By lifetime obligations this record sits just below Sysco Raleigh, LLC ($27.0M) and just above Fedwriters, Inc. ($26.9M), the nearest recipients by size that do not share its name.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainFedContract is rendered directly from USAspending.gov federal contract data, no number is typed in by an editor. Contractor figures are computed directly from USAspending.gov data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a correction.