Smithsonian Institution — Federal Contracting: Debarments & Top Contractors
Federal contracting profile
How many federal exclusions has the Smithsonian issued, and who does it contract with?
The Smithsonian Institution, as the public record states it — its active SAM.gov exclusion footprint and its USASpending.gov prime-award history, stated as exact dated facts with their source, never a score or label. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →
The Smithsonian Institution has issued 2 active federal exclusion records — 0% of the SAM.gov registry as of 2026-06-20, ranking it #54 of 56 excluding agencies; $2,441,817 obligated across 8 prime-award actions on file to 5 contractors. Every figure is an exact federal-record fact — confirm current status at SAM.gov and USASpending.gov.
At a glance
2
Active exclusion records (of 324,126 registry-wide)
0%
Share of the SAM.gov exclusion registry
#54
Rank among 56 excluding agencies
$2,441,817
Obligated across prime awards on file
Debarment profile — exclusions this agency issued
How many parties the Smithsonian has excluded from federal contracting and assistance — an aggregate count of active records in the SAM.gov Exclusions registry, ranked against every other excluding agency in the Federal Suspension & Debarment Scorecard. No excluded party is named.
This page reports exact public-record facts and assigns no score or label. An exclusion count is an administrative fact about the SAM.gov registry on the date queried — not a judgment about the agency or any party. Award totals are exact USASpending.gov obligations on the records Fonteum currently holds; they are a bounded slice of the federal corpus, not a completeness claim. The exclusion footprint above is computed across the full active registry; the award footprint fills in as the federal award backfill runs.
Reviewed by the Fonteum Government Contracts Desk. Federal procurement records analysts. This study reports exact regulatory facts — an award's signed date and an exclusion's active window, each sourced to SAM.gov and USASpending.gov. It makes no determination of wrongdoing and assigns no score.
Sources: SAM.gov Exclusions (extract queried 2026-06-20) and USASpending.gov prime awards — U.S. Government Works, public domain. Confirm any current status at sam.gov and usaspending.gov. Canonical record: https://fonteum.com/gov/agency/smithsonian-institution.
Top 5 of 5 contractors on file, by obligated dollars. A high obligation is an exact fact, not an endorsement. Each named contractor links to its canonical federal contractor record.
Set-aside reliance: 0 of 8 award actions (0% of obligated dollars) ran through a small-business or socioeconomic set-aside vehicle on the awards on file.
Source: USASpending.gov award record.
FY2012
2
$357,052
Federal fiscal years run October 1 – September 30. Showing the most recent 6 of 6 years with award actions on file.