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Department of Energy: $48.5B in contracts in FY2025
Most of the Department of Energy's contract dollars go to the companies and universities that run its seventeen national laboratories and the NNSA production sites, and to the environmental cleanup of the Cold War complex. Below those giants sits a large subcontract economy: every laboratory buys equipment, construction and services from thousands of smaller firms.
Its mission, in its own words
The mission of the Energy Department is to ensure America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 9 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. energy.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $781M
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 1.6%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What DOE buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most DOE contract dollars in FY2025: together $36.7B, 75.6% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $23.5B | 48.4% | |
| $4B | 8.3% | |
| $4B | 8.1% | |
| $2.2B | 4.6% | |
| $906M | 1.9% | |
| $538M | 1.1% | |
| $485M | 1% | |
| $376M | 0.8% | |
| $250M | 0.5% | |
| $232M | 0.5% | |
| $227M | 0.5% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$780,712,607 of DOE’s FY2025 contract dollars, 1.6% 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
Laboratory M&O contracts
The management and operating contracts that run each national laboratory, and the subcontracts beneath them.
EM end-state contracts
The Office of Environmental Management's cleanup vehicles at Hanford, Savannah River and the other sites.
NNSA production office vehicles
The nuclear security enterprise's site and production contracts.
DOE ITSS
Headquarters IT services support.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at DOE for you
GovSmith watches the laboratories' own procurement portals and the subcontracting opportunities the M&O contractors must set aside, the SBIR and ARPA-E topics, and the cleanup recompetes, and finds the laboratory whose mission matches a client's product or research.