Financial Markets and Community Investment Team

The Government Accountability Office Financial Markets and Community Investment is a civilian sub-agency that procures contract services to support GAO research, reporting, and analysis work on financial markets and community investment policy issues. The office has awarded 14 federal contracts totaling $1.3 million in combined potential value since 2013, with all dollars obligated.

Contract activity has been intermittent and modest in scale. Over the last five years, the office awarded 1 contract in 2021, 1 in 2022, 2 in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 1 so far in 2026, with the most recent award dated March 2, 2026. The office works with a highly fragmented contractor base—nine distinct primes have been awarded across the portfolio history, and the top five contractors by award count hold 86 percent of recent awards but only 28 percent of combined potential value. This disparity reflects the portfolio's composition: Neal R. Gross And Company, Inc. leads by award count with 2 awards worth $3 thousand combined, while First Street Technology US, LLC commands the largest single contract at $195 thousand. Free State Reporting, Inc., Nielsen Consumer LLC, and Metrostudy, Inc. round out the recent leaders, each with single awards in the $2 thousand to $75 thousand range.

All 14 awards carry no set-aside designation—the entire portfolio is unrestricted open competition. The contract values are consistently small, reflecting GAO's typical procurement model for specialized research, data, reporting, and survey services rather than large-scale acquisition programs. Recent contract opportunities are not recorded against the office in available data.