Top 100 Contractors in NAICS 5131: Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers, FY2025
Parent companies by net contract obligations Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025 Code page on GovTribe
The top 10 won 62% of FY2025 NAICS 5131 contract dollars
Ranking facts
- Contract obligations
- $101,910,287 Net of deobligations, by contracts coded NAICS 5131 or a code under it
- Contractors
- 273 Parent companies with an obligation
- Largest contractor
- Lexisnexis Special Services Inc $17.8 million, 17.3% of obligations
- Data as of
Contract actions from FPDS (SAM.gov). How the rankings work · Download all 100 rows as CSV · Free to reuse with credit to GovTribe (CC BY 4.0)
Full ranking
| Rank | Contractor | Net obligations | Share | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Lexisnexis Special Services Inc
|
$17,752,082 | ||
| 2 | $11,154,101 | |||
| 3 | $9,557,238 | |||
| 4 | $6,595,537 | |||
| 5 | $4,376,548 | |||
| 6 |
Carnegie Learning Inc.
Top agencies
|
$4,115,346 | ||
| 7 |
Fors Marsh Group LLC
Top agencies
|
$3,684,830 | ||
| 8 | $2,691,587 | |||
| 9 | $2,429,359 | |||
| 10 |
CCH Incorporated
|
$1,718,726 | ||
| 11 | $1,408,552 | |||
| 12 | $1,390,000 | |||
| 13 | $1,353,854 | |||
| 14 | $1,339,547 | |||
| 15 |
First Databank Inc
|
$1,104,522 | ||
| 16 | $1,098,473 | |||
| 17 | $1,048,995 | |||
| 18 | $1,020,638 | |||
| 19 | $1,009,671 | |||
| 20 |
Vesequ LLC
Top agencies
|
$965,236 | ||
| 21 | $911,498 | |||
| 22 | $895,617 | |||
| 23 | $872,632 | |||
| 24 | $829,477 | |||
| 25 | $713,438 | |||
| 26 |
CQ-Roll Call Inc
|
$712,771 | ||
| 27 |
West Publishing Corporation
|
$708,233 | ||
| 28 | $675,544 | |||
| 29 |
Proquest LLC
|
$651,031 | ||
| 30 | $647,767 | |||
| 31 | $599,538 | |||
| 32 |
Teton Data Systems
Top agencies
|
$527,055 | ||
| 33 | $506,625 | |||
| 34 |
Cengage Learning Holdings II Inc.
|
$473,741 | ||
| 35 | $413,586 | |||
| 36 | $410,550 | |||
| 37 | $367,873 | |||
| 38 | $337,977 | |||
| 39 |
The Reimagined Classroom LLC
Top agencies
|
$325,900 | ||
| 40 | $305,713 | |||
| 41 |
Blue Ivy Partners, LLC
Top agencies
|
$284,157 | ||
| 42 | $278,674 | |||
| 43 |
Observer Capital LLC
Top agencies
|
$275,625 | ||
| 44 | $270,837 | |||
| 45 |
Brodart Co
Top agencies
|
$268,816 | ||
| 46 |
American Physical Society
|
$264,102 | ||
| 47 |
IHS Global Inc
|
$261,413 | ||
| 48 |
Shoreland Inc.
Top agencies
|
$259,119 | ||
| 49 |
Networking Technology, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$253,750 | ||
| 50 | $234,600 | |||
| 51 | $229,627 | |||
| 52 |
Nationwide Pharmaceutical LLC
Top agencies
|
$227,120 | ||
| 53 | $217,988 | |||
| 54 | $214,579 | |||
| 55 | $204,256 | |||
| 56 |
Informa Business Media Inc.
|
$198,583 | ||
| 57 | $195,000 | |||
| 58 | $193,703 | |||
| 59 |
Vitalsmarts, LC
Top agencies
|
$182,660 | ||
| 60 |
Data Marketers, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$178,153 | ||
| 61 | $177,950 | |||
| 62 |
Fiscalnote Inc.
|
$173,977 | ||
| 63 | $171,497 | |||
| 64 | $170,517 | |||
| 65 | $168,840 | |||
| 66 | $164,942 | |||
| 67 | $155,832 | |||
| 68 | $148,129 | |||
| 69 | $147,574 | |||
| 70 | $144,703 | |||
| 71 |
Jane'S Group UK Limited
|
$143,275 | ||
| 72 |
Oil Price Information Service LLC
Top agencies
|
$141,873 | ||
| 73 |
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
|
$128,287 | ||
| 74 |
Dassault Systemes
|
$125,280 | ||
| 75 | $118,711 | |||
| 76 |
Cision US Inc.
Top agencies
|
$117,000 | ||
| 77 | $114,663 | |||
| 78 | $110,561 | |||
| 79 | $109,800 | |||
| 80 | $109,590 | |||
| 81 | $108,325 | |||
| 82 | $107,074 | |||
| 83 |
Rizzoli International Publications Inc.
Top agencies
|
$106,800 | ||
| 84 | $106,226 | |||
| 85 |
The Associated Press
Top agencies
|
$105,559 | ||
| 86 | $105,266 | |||
| 87 |
Sayari Labs Inc.
Top agencies
|
$104,444 | ||
| 88 |
Urner Barry Publications Inc.
|
$100,898 | ||
| 89 | $100,483 | |||
| 90 | $93,512 | |||
| 91 | $93,400 | |||
| 92 |
Synopsys, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$93,360 | ||
| 93 | $90,500 | |||
| 94 |
Pen-Link, Ltd
Top agencies
|
$90,000 | ||
| 95 | $89,955 | |||
| 96 |
NK Consulting, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$86,425 | ||
| 97 |
Dmedia Associates Inc
Top agencies
|
$84,554 | ||
| 98 | $84,460 | |||
| 99 | $80,178 | |||
| 100 |
The Schutz Company Inc.
Top agencies
|
$79,560 |
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Rankings for the codes under NAICS 5131
| Code | Net obligations | Largest contractor |
|---|---|---|
| 51312 Periodical Publishers | $53,207,329 | Lexisnexis Special Services Inc |
| 51319 Other Publishers | $22,955,073 | Allium US Holding LLC |
| 51313 Book Publishers | $22,521,567 | Effective Communication Strategies LLC |
| 51311 Newspaper Publishers | $2,515,855 | CQ-Roll Call Inc |
How this ranking works
- Source: every contract action FPDS records (as published on SAM.gov) in the period, as GovTribe received it.
- Amounts are net obligations: what was obligated, less what was deobligated. Shares are of $103 million obligated before deobligations, so they never pass 100%.
- Parent companies: each action counts under the ultimate parent its award record names, or under the awardee when it names none, so no dollar counts twice. An awardee whose own actions mostly name no parent, and that no other company's actions name as their parent, rolls up its SAM.gov registration's chain of parent companies: it counts under the first company there that other companies' actions name as their parent, or under the parent most of a company's own actions name, whichever comes first; with neither, under the highest company in the chain with federal contracts of its own. Joint ventures stay companies of their own. Parents of the same name (Inc., LLC and the like aside) count as one company, since FPDS records a company's parent under more than one UEI over time. GovTribe corrects a few parents and names by hand; see the corrections.
- Fiscal year 2025 ran Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025. The Department of Defense reports its contract actions to FPDS about 90 days late, so a fiscal year is ranked once they're in, in February, and the list doesn't change after.
- Rank changes compare with FY2024. "New" marks a company outside that period's top 500, and "Returned" one of those that was on an earlier fiscal year's list.
- Rank lines show each company's rank on every fiscal year's list since FY2023, #1 at the top, on a scale that gives the top of the list more room. A dashed stretch spans years it wasn't on the list. The step from FY2024 takes the color of the rank change beside it.
- Placeholder recipients FPDS uses when it names no company ("Miscellaneous Foreign Contractors" and the like) aren't ranked.
Quick answers
Who were the top 10 NAICS 5131 contractors in FY2025?
1. Lexisnexis Special Services Inc ($17.8M), 2. Ebsco Industries Inc. ($11.2M), 3. Allium US Holding LLC ($9.56M), 4. Effective Communication Strategies LLC ($6.6M), 5. S&P Global Inc. ($4.38M), 6. Carnegie Learning Inc. ($4.12M), 7. Fors Marsh Group LLC ($3.68M), 8. Savvas Learning Company LLC ($2.69M), 9. IQ Solutions, Inc. ($2.43M), 10. CCH Incorporated ($1.72M).
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