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Department of Homeland Security: $28.3B in contracts in FY2025
DHS buys through its components: Customs and Border Protection, TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, ICE, CISA and the Secret Service each contract for their own mission, from screening equipment and vessels to disaster logistics, cybersecurity services and the IT that runs them. Its public forecast lists hundreds of planned buys a year.
Its mission, in its own words
With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 17 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.dhs.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $3.3B
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 11.6%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What DHS buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most DHS contract dollars in FY2025: together $21B, 74.2% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $5.9B | 20.7% | |
| $3.2B | 11.4% | |
| $2.6B | 9.1% | |
| $2.3B | 8.3% | |
| $1.4B | 4.9% | |
| $917M | 3.2% | |
| $801M | 2.8% | |
| $773M | 2.7% | |
| $759M | 2.7% | |
| $753M | 2.7% | |
| $565M | 2% | |
| $429M | 1.5% | |
| $388M | 1.4% | |
| $256M | 0.9% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$3,276,233,894 of DHS’s FY2025 contract dollars, 11.6% of the total, went out under a small-business set-aside: competitions and sole-source awards reserved for small firms, 8(a) participants, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned and women-owned businesses. The dollars primes placed with small subcontractors sit on top of that and are not counted here.
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations, read 2026-11-05.
The vehicles
EAGLE Next Gen
The Department's IT services vehicle, with small-business tracks.
FirstSource III
IT products and value-added resale, set aside for small business.
CBP CITS
Customs and Border Protection's IT services contract.
GSA MAS HACS SIN
Highly adaptive cybersecurity services on the Schedule, which CISA and the components order from.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at DHS for you
GovSmith reads the DHS Acquisition Planning Forecast System every night, so a client sees a component's buy quarters before the solicitation, and the vCM works the small-business set-aside tracks on EAGLE and FirstSource and the FEMA surge contracts that open after every disaster.