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Nuclear Regulatory Commission: $183M in contracts in FY2025
The NRC buys technical assistance for its licensing and inspection work, research on reactor safety and materials, and the IT and program support of a regulator with a nationwide inspection staff. It is a small buyer with a specialist supplier base.
Its mission, in its own words
To ensure the safe use of radioactive materials for beneficial civilian purposes while protecting people and the environment.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 1 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.nrc.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $37.3M
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 20.3%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What NRC buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most NRC contract dollars in FY2025: together $149M, 81.5% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $61M | 33.3% | |
| $33M | 18% | |
| $23.9M | 13% | |
| $6.4M | 3.5% | |
| $5.8M | 3.2% | |
| $4.1M | 2.2% | |
| $2.6M | 1.4% | |
| $2.3M | 1.3% | |
| $2.3M | 1.3% | |
| $2.2M | 1.2% | |
| $2.2M | 1.2% | |
| $1.9M | 1.1% | |
| $1.6M | 0.9% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$37,306,542 of NRC’s FY2025 contract dollars, 20.3% 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
Technical assistance contracts
Engineering and scientific support to the licensing offices.
Research program IDIQs
The Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research's vehicles.
OASIS+, NITAAC and GSA MAS
Professional services, IT and commercial products.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at NRC for you
GovSmith watches the technical-assistance recompetes for engineering clients with nuclear experience and the program-support set-asides for the rest, in a market where few firms bid.