Buyers

Federal agencies

The awarding agency is the department whose contracting office signed the award. Each agency page shows who it buys from, what it buys, and where the work is performed. Agencies with enough benchmark-eligible awards also get a published distribution of award values, so you can see how a buyer's typical award compares with the market.

Agencies with a published award-value distribution

Median current award value over each agency's benchmark-eligible awards.

Agency	Median award	Awards in sample	Contractors
Department of Defense	$582,840	16,790	26,126
Department of Veterans Affairs	$133,500	8,204	10,211
General Services Administration	$28,018	4,627	16,240
Department of Health and Human Services	$226,661	3,400	6,472
Department of Justice	$20,000	3,238	5,532
Department of Homeland Security	$499,266	3,183	7,552
Department of the Interior	$97,773	3,036	8,823
Department of Transportation	$602,617	2,629	2,926
Department of State	$307,577	2,345	4,394
Department of Agriculture	$70,388	1,924	8,964
Department of Commerce	$79,000	1,329	3,001
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	$474,438	772	3,903
Department of the Treasury	$639,038	636	2,031
Department of Energy	$474,989	595	1,355
Environmental Protection Agency	$236,056	242	825
Smithsonian Institution	$411,886	197	503
Department of Labor	$731,084	189	657
Government Accountability Office	$80,652	93	131
National Archives and Records Administration	$1,358,374	93	241
Social Security Administration	$64,040	73	707
Department of Housing and Urban Development	$1,401,552	72	273
Department of Education	$1,614,756	59	443
Securities and Exchange Commission	$3,767,931	50	294

Every awarding agency

Ordered by the number of awards in the dataset.

Agency	Awards	Obligated	Contractors
Department of DefenseDOD	936,868	$1,853,561,070,107	26,126
General Services AdministrationGSA	648,657	$101,384,468,062	16,240
Department of Veterans AffairsVA	55,334	$129,319,438,099	10,211
Department of JusticeDOJ	32,941	$29,711,659,673	5,532
Department of AgricultureUSDA	32,261	$18,783,487,023	8,964
Department of Homeland SecurityDHS	28,462	$135,472,414,981	7,552
Department of Health and Human ServicesHHS	27,458	$142,736,628,763	6,472
Department of the InteriorDOI	22,083	$24,185,032,573	8,823
Department of StateDOS	19,404	$55,524,364,343	4,394
Department of TransportationDOT	12,129	$55,055,625,471	2,926
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA	9,730	$215,165,527,721	3,903
Department of CommerceDOC	8,503	$20,438,892,097	3,001
Department of the TreasuryTREAS	6,246	$18,763,489,314	2,031
Environmental Protection AgencyEPA	3,885	$6,617,405,288	825
Department of EnergyDOE	3,795	$674,051,153,565	1,355
Social Security AdministrationSSA	1,801	$6,584,640,002	707
Department of LaborDOL	1,637	$11,159,455,368	657
Smithsonian Institution	914	$1,935,839,323	503
Department of EducationED	850	$14,863,633,878	443
Securities and Exchange CommissionSEC	630	$2,679,544,265	294
Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentHUD	625	$3,515,360,840	273
Nuclear Regulatory CommissionNRC	609	$1,080,137,921	282
Agency for International DevelopmentUSAID	446	$8,038,613,407	220
National Archives and Records AdministrationNARA	437	$769,275,479	241
National Science FoundationNSF	418	$5,034,614,269	218
Government Accountability OfficeGAO	382	$516,040,987	131
Export-Import Bank of the United StatesEXIM	355	$209,390,520	215
National Gallery of Art	346	$172,480,947	229
Consumer Product Safety CommissionCPSC	313	$101,814,035	234
Federal Communications CommissionFCC	308	$792,544,609	207
District of Columbia CourtsDC COURTS	306	$177,733,214	184
Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionEEOC	289	$137,929,569	224
Executive Office of the PresidentEOP	289	$216,270,374	144
U.S. International Development Finance CorporationDFC	283	$244,048,209	152
Federal Trade CommissionFTC	260	$395,956,766	187
Pension Benefit Guaranty CorporationPBGC	255	$1,631,132,517	149
Millennium Challenge CorporationMCC	236	$461,591,423	132
U.S. Agency for Global MediaUSAGM	231	$206,884,302	133
Consumer Financial Protection BureauCFPB	222	$361,165,177	109
Court Services and Offender Supervision AgencyCSOSA	189	$146,397,056	136
Commodity Futures Trading CommissionCFTC	187	$296,020,155	127
Peace CorpsPC	161	$231,427,053	106
Railroad Retirement BoardRRB	140	$301,905,468	85
Corporation for National and Community ServiceCNCS	111	$213,408,309	76
Merit Systems Protection BoardMSPB	109	$12,353,422	46
Office of Personnel ManagementOPM	98	$328,052,358	71
National Transportation Safety BoardNTSB	96	$34,938,773	61
Small Business AdministrationSBA	93	$496,386,390	75
National Labor Relations BoardNLRB	89	$72,649,351	51
International Trade CommissionUSITC	81	$44,057,484	57
Institute of Museum and Library ServicesIMLS	68	$40,533,020	25
United States Trade and Development AgencyUSTDA	63	$47,440,976	45
Federal Election CommissionFEC	57	$42,778,287	48
Library of Congress	48	$34,500	47
Federal Maritime CommissionFMC	44	$18,470,714	32
Selective Service SystemSSS	42	$5,356,131	28
United States Chemical Safety BoardCSB	40	$5,792,678	25
Federal Labor Relations AuthorityFLRA	38	$8,378,452	23
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety BoardDNFSB	36	$24,730,175	34
Occupational Safety and Health Review CommissionOSHRC	33	$2,524,587	20
National Endowment for the ArtsNEA	31	$21,188,183	25
Federal Mediation and Conciliation ServiceFMCS	24	$7,206,122	19
National Endowment for the HumanitiesNEH	24	$2,624,453	22
Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and EfficiencyCIGIE	20	$11,844,719	17
Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely DisabledABILITYONE	12	$8,823,135	8
Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall FoundationUDALL	9	$1,865,824	9
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review CommissionFMSHRC	5	$76,257	3
American Battle Monuments CommissionABMC	4	$967,379	3
Overseas Private Investment CorporationOPIC	2	$8,546	2