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Department of Education (ED)

Federal contracts · top awardee Accenture Federal Services LLC

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Department of Education (ED) shows $2.9B in SCOUT transaction volume across 728 award actions (trailing 12 months, Sep 2025 – Sep 2026, ≥$100K floor), with an average action value of $4.0M. The agency focuses on student aid, education research, and grants administration.. SCOUT aggregates all USASpending transaction records including modifications — differs from published FY2025 annual totals. See methodology note below. Data: PrimeRFP SCOUT · FPDS.

$2.9B

SCOUT Transaction Vol.

728

Total Awards

$4.0M

Avg. Award Value

2026-08-20

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Top ED Contractors by Obligation — Trailing 12 Months

Rank	Contractor	Awards	Total Obligation
#1	Accenture Federal Services LLCfamily	28	$415.3M
#2	Nelnet Servicing	35	$399.1M
#3	Maximus Education	29	$319.8M
#4	Edfinancial Services	40	$262.9M
#5	MAXIMUS FEDERAL SERVICES, INC.	14	$247.6M
#6	Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority	35	$212.3M
#7	Central Research	16	$97.1M
#8	General Dynamics Corporationfamily	13	$82.6M
#9	WESTAT, INC.	34	$51.8M
#10	Educational Testing Service	26	$46.8M

Top 10 awardees by obligation · PrimeRFP SCOUT · Federal procurement records ≥$100K cumulative · 2025-08-25 – 2026-08-20

SCOUT Analysis — ED Market Intelligence

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FSA servicing and aid-IT vehicles are the main multi-year services competitions.

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Beyond the historical award data above, PrimeRFP SCOUT surfaces active Department of Education solicitations — RFPs, RFQs, and sources-sought notices — updated from SAM.gov and related sources.

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ED Recompete Pipeline

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Frequently Asked Questions — Department of Education Contracting

Does “ED” here mean Education or another agency?

ED is the Department of Education abbreviation. Totals are awarding-agency Department of Education only.

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About Department of Education

Education procures student-aid systems, grants administration, research, and IT supporting federal K-12 and higher-education programs.

Mission focus: Student aid, education research, and grants administration.

Key vehicles: OASIS+

Primary NAICS: 541611, 541512, 611710

Data Coverage

PrimeRFP SCOUT · Federal procurement records
Awards ≥$100K cumulative total (PIID-keyed)
Coverage: 2025-08-25 – 2026-08-20
Last refreshed: 2026-09-10

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SCOUT Signal

September 2026

Service-disabled veteran-owned contract actions fell 15% at the VA in a single month.

Meanwhile VA's service-disabled veteran-owned contract actions fell 15.3%. The same agency, the same month, the large-vendor lane expanding while the small-business lane contracted. Figures are civilian-agency obligations through 2026-08-31; DoD FPDS for this window is labeled incomplete.

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Data & Methodology

Federal contract and award data sourced from government procurement systems — including FPDS-NG, SAM.gov, and related federal data repositories. PrimeRFP SCOUT ingests, normalizes, and continuously updates records as agencies publish them. Reporting timelines vary by agency; some components (particularly DoD) carry a 60–90 day lag relative to award execution.

Dataset coverage — ≥ $100K floor

All intelligence on this page and within SCOUT is filtered to federal contract awards whose current total award value is $100K or more. PrimeRFP applies this floor at the award level (on current_total_value_award), not per-transaction, so large awards split across many mid-size obligation lines are retained in full. PrimeRFP's own empirical sampling against the raw USASpending dataset shows this threshold captures 98%+ of total federal contract dollars while excluding a long tail of micro-purchases, small modifications, and administrative actions — the trade-off that makes market intelligence tractable without distorting the dollar picture. Coverage: 560,000+ active contract awards and 2.5M+ unique awardees, including small-business set-asides, task orders, and mid-market opportunities.

Award identification: Each record is keyed by federal Award ID (PIID). Task orders recorded as independent awards appear as separate rows. IDIQs and their task orders are tracked distinctly.

Why SCOUT dollar figures differ from published annual totals: Per-agency dollar figures on SCOUT intelligence pages aggregate all USASpending transaction records — including base contract awards, task orders, delivery orders, and modifications to existing contracts. Annual federal contract obligation figures cited in industry reports (e.g., FY2025: $833.8B per Bloomberg Government) count only new prime award actions in the fiscal year, excluding mods. An IDIQ vehicle (like OASIS+) carries no obligation at award — only task orders issued against it are counted. SCOUT's transaction-level aggregates are larger because they capture the full activity picture across a contract's lifecycle, making them useful for competitive analysis and pipeline sizing rather than year-over-year spending comparison.

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