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Department of Commerce: $4.2B in contracts in FY2025
Commerce's dollars go to NOAA's satellites, ships and weather systems, NIST's laboratories and standards work, the Census Bureau's decennial surge and the Patent and Trademark Office's fee-funded IT and examination support. It is a science and data buyer first, with professional-services and IT spend across the bureaus.
Its mission, in its own words
The mission of the Department is to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 11 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.commerce.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $966M
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 23.2%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What DOC buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most DOC contract dollars in FY2025: together $3.1B, 74.7% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $759M | 18.2% | |
| $627M | 15.1% | |
| $469M | 11.3% | |
| $205M | 4.9% | |
| $195M | 4.7% | |
| $152M | 3.7% | |
| $151M | 3.6% | |
| $139M | 3.3% | |
| $125M | 3% | |
| $107M | 2.6% | |
| $61.9M | 1.5% | |
| $59.5M | 1.4% | |
| $58.3M | 1.4% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$965,569,780 of DOC’s FY2025 contract dollars, 23.2% 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
NOAA ProTech 2.0
NOAA's multi-domain services IDIQ: satellites, fisheries, oceans, weather and enterprise operations.
Census Bureau IDIQs
Field operations, IT and communications that surge every decade.
NIST MAS and BPAs
Laboratory, engineering and standards support.
USPTO IT support contracts
Patent and trademark automation and examination support.
OASIS+
Professional services across the bureaus.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at DOC for you
GovSmith tracks ProTech's task orders and the NIST and NOAA laboratory buys for scientific and engineering clients, the Census cycle for operations and communications firms, and the USPTO's steady IT stream, and brings the Commerce OSDBU's outreach into the client's calendar.