$1.9M to Primer Federal — the only round figure among the seven consecutively numbered contracts (Army, SBIR Phase II)

1What a round figure suggests

Obligations land at exactly $1,900,000. The other six under the same solicitation topic come to $1,899,996, $1,899,995, $1,899,988, $1,899,795, $1,899,486 and $1,887,290, each carrying odd digits.

An odd figure tends to emerge from adding up the cost lines required. A round figure suggests the amount came from the frame, or was agreed at a convenient number. That seven awards sit under one ceiling while not all arriving at it the same way is left in the shape of the digits.

2A period of one year and three months

The period runs from 2024-05-06 to 2025-08-05, one year and three months, short even among the seven. SBIR Phase II carries forward what a first phase showed toward a product, and periods are often set at around two years.

Of the 222 federal spending records this site holds as of 2026-09-01, 23 carry SBIR or STTR in the description. Amounts run from about $1,347,918 at the low end through a median of about $1,899,486 to about $14,788,874 at the high end, and that median sits almost exactly on the seven amounts above.

3Outlays remain at zero

Obligations stand at $1,900,000 while outlays are recorded as zero. The contract ended in August 2025, so payment still to come is hard to credit.

Among the federal spending records this site holds as of 2026-09-01, 130 of the 155 awarded by the Department of Defense show zero outlays, against 26 of the 67 awarded elsewhere. The same public data records payment very differently depending on the awarding side. The amount field alone cannot settle whether payment was actually made.