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Department of Justice: $8.6B in contracts in FY2025
Justice buys for the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, the DEA, the Marshals and the U.S. Attorneys: detention and medical services, litigation and e-discovery support, laboratory and forensic work, law-enforcement equipment and the IT behind casework and the FBI's systems. The Bureau of Prisons is a large, decentralized buyer of food, medical and facilities services at every institution.
Its mission, in its own words
To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 9 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.justice.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $1.1B
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 12.6%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What DOJ buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most DOJ contract dollars in FY2025: together $6.1B, 71.3% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $1.4B | 16.7% | |
| $744M | 8.7% | |
| $607M | 7.1% | |
| $542M | 6.3% | |
| $438M | 5.1% | |
| $431M | 5% | |
| $425M | 5% | |
| $354M | 4.1% | |
| $230M | 2.7% | |
| $217M | 2.5% | |
| $208M | 2.4% | |
| $199M | 2.3% | |
| $152M | 1.8% | |
| $122M | 1.4% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$1,078,719,847 of DOJ’s FY2025 contract dollars, 12.6% 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
ITSS-5 and successors
The Department's IT support services vehicle.
JCON
The Justice Consolidated Office Network contracts.
FBI BPAs and IDIQs
The Bureau's own vehicles for IT, services and products.
OASIS+ and Alliant 3
Professional services and enterprise IT orders.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at DOJ for you
GovSmith watches the institution-level Bureau of Prisons buys and the U.S. Attorneys' litigation-support orders that are set aside for small firms, and pairs a client's forensic, medical, facilities or IT capability with the component that buys it most.