Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an independent civilian agency that regulates the nuclear power industry and manages federal nuclear safety and security, has awarded 12,610 federal contracts since 1979 with a combined potential value of $5.8 billion and $4.69 billion obligated. Contract activity over the last five years has ranged from 149 to 230 awards annually—221 in 2023, 230 in 2024, 149 in 2025, and 156 in 2026, with one recorded award so far in 2027. The NRC transacts across a highly fragmented contractor base of 2,668 distinct primes, with no single vendor commanding significant market concentration; the top five primes by award count over the last five years—Software Information Resource Corp., Southwest Research Institute, R I Solutions LLC, Enterprise Technology Solutions Inc., and CTG Federal LLC—hold only 12 percent of recent awards. By potential value, CGI Federal Inc. leads at $63.9 million across nine awards, but even this top tier covers only 2 percent of combined recent potential value, reflecting a dispersed portfolio dominated by task orders, BPA calls, and below-threshold purchase orders where explicit dollar reporting is sparse. The contract set-aside mix is overwhelmingly unrestricted work: 82 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation, with 11 percent classified as Total Small Business and 5 percent as 8(a) Sole Source. Recent contract opportunities span technical and logistical support; the NRC issued a pre-solicitation in October 2026 (due November 2) for Force-on-Force inspection logistics and equipment support at approximately 57 licensed facilities, a small-business-set-aside solicitation in September for Flow-Induced Vibration technical review and guidance, and several sole-source notices, including a $160,000 award to Willis Towers Watson US LLC for a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board safety-culture survey and a Perseus personnel-security software implementation contract to Chainbridge Solutions LLC.

The NRC has awarded 1,026 federal grants since 2002 with $279.4 million in combined federal dollars obligated. Grant activity shows 44 awards in 2021, 46 in 2022, 34 in 2023, 63 in 2024, and 6 in 2025, with the most recent grant awarded in January 2025. Grant recipients are fragmented across 187 distinct organizations, with the top five by award count—University of Illinois, Purdue University, North Carolina State University, Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute—accounting for only 21 percent of recent awards. These same universities also dominate by federal dollars, holding 5 percent of obligated funding. Grants are predominantly Project Grants (96 percent of 1,026 awards), with smaller shares of Cooperative Agreements (2 percent) and Block Grants (1 percent). No recent grant opportunities are recorded.

An independent agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates commercial nuclear power plants and other uses of nuclear materials.