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Department of Labor: $1.8B in contracts in FY2025
Labor's largest contracts run the Job Corps centers; the rest buy the IT and professional services behind unemployment insurance, wage enforcement, OSHA, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the workforce programs the Department funds through the states.
Its mission, in its own words
To foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 12 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.dol.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $531M
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 30.3%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What DOL buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most DOL contract dollars in FY2025: together $1.7B, 94.5% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $1B | 57.3% | |
| $196M | 11.2% | |
| $171M | 9.7% | |
| $49M | 2.8% | |
| $47.7M | 2.7% | |
| $33.6M | 1.9% | |
| $30M | 1.7% | |
| $26.9M | 1.5% | |
| $20.8M | 1.2% | |
| $19.5M | 1.1% | |
| $19M | 1.1% | |
| $15.1M | 0.9% | |
| $12.4M | 0.7% | |
| $12M | 0.7% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$530,934,746 of DOL’s FY2025 contract dollars, 30.3% 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
Job Corps center operating contracts
The operation of the residential training centers.
DOL IT support IDIQs
The Department's enterprise IT vehicles.
OASIS+, NITAAC and GSA MAS
Professional services, IT and commercial products.
What GovSmith does with this
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