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Department of Education: $2.5B in contracts in FY2025
Education's contract dollars are concentrated in Federal Student Aid: loan servicing, the systems that process aid for millions of students, and the contact centers behind them. The rest buys research, evaluation and data services for the program offices and the Institute of Education Sciences.
Its mission, in its own words
ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 21 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.ed.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $116M
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 4.6%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What ED buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most ED contract dollars in FY2025: together $2.5B, 98.8% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $1.3B | 50.8% | |
| $578M | 23.1% | |
| $166M | 6.6% | |
| $146M | 5.8% | |
| $134M | 5.3% | |
| $88.7M | 3.5% | |
| $28.7M | 1.1% | |
| $19.2M | 0.8% | |
| $16.2M | 0.6% | |
| $14.5M | 0.6% | |
| $3.8M | 0.2% | |
| $3.6M | 0.1% | |
| $1.9M | 0.1% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$115,664,460 of ED’s FY2025 contract dollars, 4.6% 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
FSA servicing and processing contracts
The Unified Servicing and Data Solution and the business-process operations behind student aid.
OASIS+ and GSA MAS
Professional services, research support and commercial products.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at ED for you
GovSmith follows the FSA modernization and servicing orders for IT and contact-center clients and the research and evaluation buys for data and policy firms, with the Department's small-business set-asides tracked as they post.