Money Trail: A $113.7 million Coast Guard order went to Gilbane Federal on October 29

What the record says this money does

Most contract coverage stops at the department total. The record underneath it names the work and the place. The USAspending description for this delivery order reads design build recapitalize Base Kodiak waterlines, in plain English a design and construction job to renew the waterline system at the Coast Guard base at Kodiak, Alaska. That is the line in the award record the headlines skipped: nearly half of one department's contract week is one infrastructure job at one base.

The order sits under the Department of Homeland Security, with the U.S. Coast Guard as the awarding sub agency named in the record. The action date is October 29, 2026, inside the contract week the Ledger compiled from USAspending transactions with action dates from October 23 to 29, 2026. The figure is the net federal action obligation for this transaction in that period, stated exactly as recorded: $113,748,477.00.

Where this action sits in the department week

The Department of Homeland Security obligated $236,667,990.01 across 629 contract transactions in the same week, per the compiled USAspending records. At $113,748,477.00, this single Gilbane Federal action accounts for about 48 percent of that department total, the largest Homeland Security action in the compiled top awards list for the week. The rest of the department total is spread across hundreds of smaller transactions, which is why a single named order can stand out in a week without being the whole story.

Yesterday the Money Trail followed a Homeland Security support order from the prior contract week. Tomorrow the trail follows the next named recipient in the new records, and followers get one named recipient with the exact figure, every day. The full award record is linked in the Sources section below, so any reader can check the figure, the date, and the description directly.

Data vintage: USAspending contract transactions with action dates from October 23 to 29, 2026, compiled November 2, 2026. Figures are net federal action obligations per transaction in that period. Department of Defense contract data is largely absent from the USAspending records for recent periods, a reporting gap noted in the compiled file, so department comparisons for this week exclude meaningful Defense data.

Sources

1. USAspending award record for delivery order 70ZS0327FKODI0002: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70ZS0327FKODI0002_7008_70Z04723DPCNI0007_7008/

2. USAspending award search: https://www.usaspending.gov/search/