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Businesses in Kentucky won $10.2B in federal contracts in FY2025
What the federal government bought from companies located in Kentucky in FY2025, who bought it and how much of it was reserved for small business. Then what GovSmith does with those facts for you.
- Federal contract dollars
- $10.2B
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations to recipients in the state, read 2026-11-05.
- Contract awards
- 80,501
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract and IDV awards to recipients in the state, read 2026-11-05.
- Small-business set-asides
- $409M
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Federal grant dollars
- $23.4B
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 prime grant awards to recipients in the state, read 2026-11-05.
Who is buying in Kentucky
The five agencies that obligated the most to companies in Kentucky in FY2025. The top one alone put $9.1B into the state.
| Agency | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $9.1B | 90% | |
| $241M | 2.4% | |
| $186M | 1.8% | |
| $164M | 1.6% | |
| $142M | 1.4% |
What they buy in Kentucky
The NAICS codes with the most federal contract dollars to Kentucky companies. Each code has its own page with the buyers under it nationwide.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $6.5B | 64.1% | |
| $839M | 8.3% | |
| $579M | 5.7% | |
| $190M | 1.9% | |
| $186M | 1.8% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, recipients in the state, read 2026-11-05.
The set-aside landscape
$408,991,317 of the federal contract dollars to Kentucky companies in FY2025, 4% 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. That is money a large company could not touch.
The state’s own buying
Fort Campbell, Fort Knox and the Blue Grass Army Depot drive the federal dollars, and the state's Finance and Administration Cabinet, Transportation Cabinet and Cabinet for Health and Family Services drive the state's.
The state, its cities, counties, school districts and universities buy on top of the federal figures above. GovSmith is bringing the state portals into its Search state by state, and your vCM watches the one that matters to you by hand until then.
What GovSmith does with this
GovSmith finds the Kentucky openings for you
Your vCM starts from the buyers above: the installations, offices and programs in Kentucky that spend on what you sell, the primes that staff their big contracts, and the set-asides you qualify for. GovSmith's Search reads the notices every night and GovSmith AI matches them to your profile. You see the shortlist, not the flood.