Contract spending

Montgomery County, Maryland Contract Spending, Explained

This page uses Montgomery County's official Contract Spending dataset to show payment activity at a high level. It is built for context, not vendor ranking or personal lookup.

Data status: FY26 actual contract spending records

Last checked: 2026-05-20. The official Contract Spending view is payment data. FY26 is treated as year-to-date until the fiscal year closes and the source is refreshed.

FY26 Actual

The Short Version

FY26 Actual Other

The official Contract Spending view showed $877,841,911 in FY26 actual payment records when checked on 2026-05-20.

This page aggregates by fiscal year and named vendor organization. It does not publish personal addresses, contract-by-contract lookup, or pages that single out individuals.

A large payment total does not prove waste, quality, need, or full contract value. It only shows payment activity in the official dataset.

FY26 Contract Spending payments

$877,841,911

FY26 Actual Other

FY26 Contract Spending total from the official dataMontgomery view as checked on 2026-05-20. This is payment activity, not the full operating budget and not final FY26 audited spending.

How To Read County Contract Spending

The Contract Spending view is about payments made to vendors with county contracts. It is useful for seeing broad payment activity, but it is not the same thing as the operating budget, the capital budget, or a full contract document.

Read each amount with its fiscal year, version label, and source. FY26 figures on this page are labeled Actual because they come from payment records, but they should still be read as year-to-date until the source is complete for that fiscal year.

Vendor names can reflect several kinds of work, including vehicles, waste services, construction, technology, human services, or pass-through arrangements. The official source should be checked before drawing conclusions about one payment line.

Recent Contract Spending Totals

The bars compare recent fiscal-year payment totals in the official Contract Spending view. FY26 is year-to-date as checked on 2026-05-20.

How to read this chart: longer bars mean larger payment totals in the official view. Dollar amounts are rounded for display and repeated in the table below.

FY26

$877,841,911

FY25

$1,186,525,447

FY24

$1,118,631,318

FY23

$1,086,524,659

FY22

$922,897,086

Recent Montgomery County Contract Spending payment totals
Fiscal Year Actual Payments In Source View Note
FY26 $877,841,911 Year-to-date in the official view as checked on 2026-05-20.
FY25 $1,186,525,447 Fiscal-year total in the official Contract Spending view.
FY24 $1,118,631,318 Fiscal-year total in the official Contract Spending view.
FY23 $1,086,524,659 Fiscal-year total in the official Contract Spending view.
FY22 $922,897,086 Fiscal-year total in the official Contract Spending view.

FY26 Named Vendor Organization Examples

These are the highest named organization totals in the FY26 Contract Spending view after excluding purely numeric vendor values. The list is a payment summary, not a ranking of program importance.

Use the table to see payment scale, then check the official source and procurement records for contract details.

Rows that appeared only as numbers were left out of the public named-vendor list. This page is meant to explain organization-level payment patterns, not help identify people.

FY26 named vendor organization payment totals from Contract Spending
Named Organization FY26 Actual Payments
GILLIG LLC $57,374,270
UNITY DISPOSAL & RECYCLING LLC $27,992,152
NORTHEAST MARYLAND WASTE DISPOSAL AUTHORITY $25,785,356
MANUEL LUIS CONSTRUCTION CO INC $21,834,005
CRISWELL PERFORMANCE CARS INC $16,895,764
TRANSDEV FLEET SERVICES INC $15,401,257
D AND F CONSTRUCTION INC $14,530,637
DOYLE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY $12,807,113
DUSTIN CONSTRUCTION INC $12,763,502
SHI INTERNATIONAL CORP $12,160,750

What Contract Spending Does Not Tell You

Contract spending does not tell you whether a contract was a good deal, whether the work was performed well, or whether a department should have chosen a different approach. Those questions require contract documents, procurement context, performance information, and sometimes Council or department records.

It also does not show the full contract ceiling, all future obligations, or the total budget for a department. A vendor can be paid from several programs, funds, or fiscal years.

This page intentionally avoids personal addresses, pages about individuals, and contract-by-contract lookup because the public value here is the broad spending pattern, not exposing private details.

What People Often Misunderstand

A large vendor total can reflect expensive equipment, countywide services, construction timing, or payments that flow through a specific entity. It should not be read as evidence of waste by itself.

The official dataset can also change as records are added, protected, corrected, or refreshed. If a total matters for a public claim, check the source date and the official record before repeating it.

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