National Institute on Deafness and Other Communincation Disorders

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a sub-agency of the National Institutes of Health within the Department of Health and Human Services, funds research and development programs in hearing, balance, voice, speech, and language sciences through federal grants and purchases specialized research equipment and services through contracts.

NIDCD awarded 1,394 federal contracts totaling $72.5 million in combined potential value since 2007, with $68.1 million obligated. Recent contract volume shows 79 awards in 2022, 89 in 2023, 81 in 2024, 84 in 2025, and 43 year-to-date in 2026. The contract portfolio is moderately concentrated among the top five primes by award count, who collectively account for 31 percent of recent awards. 10X Genomics, Inc. leads with 45 awards, followed by One Federal Solution Corporation with 24 awards and $8.2 million in combined potential value, and Nikon Instruments Inc. with 19 awards. When ranked by potential value, One Federal Solution Corporation and Astrix Technology LLC dominate the top positions, though the top five primes by value account for only 21 percent of combined potential value — indicating a long tail of 305 distinct prime contractors. Set-asides are nearly absent from the contract portfolio: 96 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation, with small business and other set-asides representing 4 percent of the award count combined.

NIDCD obligated $8.08 billion in federal grant dollars across 3,505 grant awards since 1975, with a total combined federal and non-federal share of $8.56 billion. Recent grant activity recorded 218 awards in 2023, 282 in 2024, 210 in 2025, 206 in 2026, and 6 most recently recorded in 2027. The recipient base is highly fragmented by both award count and federal dollars: the top five recipients by award count hold 13 percent of recent awards, while the top five by federal dollars account for only 4 percent of total federal dollars obligated. University of Pittsburgh leads by awards (46) and federal dollars ($81.8 million), followed by The Johns Hopkins University (37 awards, $72.8 million federal dollars) and The Leland Stanford Junior University (24 awards, $54.1 million federal dollars). Grants are predominantly Project Grants (98 percent of awards), with Cooperative Agreements accounting for the remaining 2 percent, reflecting a research-funding portfolio concentrated in single-investigator or single-institution research initiatives across 432 distinct recipients.

No recent contract opportunities or grant opportunities are recorded in the source data.