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National Archives and Records Administration: $208M in contracts in FY2025
The Archives buys digitization and records-management services, the Electronic Records Archive and its successors, the operation of the federal records centers, and construction and facilities work for its buildings and the presidential libraries.
Its mission, in its own words
Our Mission is to provide public access to Federal Government records in our custody and control. Public access to government records strengthens democracy by allowing Americans to claim their rights of citizenship, hold their government accountable, and understand their history so they can participate more effectively in their government.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 2 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.archives.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $5.4M
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 2.6%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What NARA buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most NARA contract dollars in FY2025: together $191M, 92.2% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $40.1M | 19.3% | |
| $30.8M | 14.8% | |
| $30.6M | 14.7% | |
| $28.7M | 13.8% | |
| $19.8M | 9.5% | |
| $13.7M | 6.6% | |
| $8.8M | 4.3% | |
| $6.8M | 3.3% | |
| $5.4M | 2.6% | |
| $2M | 1% | |
| $1.8M | 0.9% | |
| $1.5M | 0.7% | |
| $1.5M | 0.7% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$5,361,839 of NARA’s FY2025 contract dollars, 2.6% 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
Digitization IDIQs
Scanning and metadata services for the holdings.
Electronic Records Archive contracts
The systems that take in and preserve federal records.
Records center operations contracts
The running of the federal records centers.
OASIS+ and NITAAC
Professional services and IT.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at NARA for you
GovSmith tracks the digitization and records-center orders for document-services and IT clients and the facilities buys for trades firms, a small market with repeat, multi-year work.