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Businesses in North Carolina won $5B in federal contracts in FY2025
What the federal government bought from companies located in North Carolina 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
- $5B
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations to recipients in the state, read 2026-11-05.
- Contract awards
- 230,430
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract and IDV awards to recipients in the state, read 2026-11-05.
- Small-business set-asides
- $685M
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Federal grant dollars
- $44.4B
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 prime grant awards to recipients in the state, read 2026-11-05.
Who is buying in North Carolina
The five agencies that obligated the most to companies in North Carolina in FY2025. The top one alone put $2.7B into the state.
| Agency | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $2.7B | 53.3% | |
| $553M | 11% | |
| $518M | 10.3% | |
Agency for International Development | $351M | 7% |
| $299M | 6% |
What they buy in North Carolina
The NAICS codes with the most federal contract dollars to North Carolina companies. Each code has its own page with the buyers under it nationwide.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $370M | 7.4% | |
| $308M | 6.1% | |
| $254M | 5.1% | |
| $248M | 4.9% | |
| $210M | 4.2% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, recipients in the state, read 2026-11-05.
The set-aside landscape
$685,312,359 of the federal contract dollars to North Carolina companies in FY2025, 13.7% 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 Liberty, Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point, Seymour Johnson and the EPA's Research Triangle campus make North Carolina a top-ten federal state; the Division of Purchase and Contract, NCDOT, DHHS and the UNC System are the state's buyers.
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 North Carolina openings for you
Your vCM starts from the buyers above: the installations, offices and programs in North Carolina 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.