Federal sub-agency · Department of Homeland Security

Office of Procurement Operations

Office of Procurement Operations obligated $4.8B on federal contracts in FY2026 across 4,837 contract actions (+24% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was SALUS WORLDWIDE SOLUTIONS CORP. ($562.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$4.8B
Actions
4,837
New awards: 704
Sole-source
16%
Small business
37%

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.5BFY2017
  2. 2.8BFY2018
  3. 2.9BFY2019
  4. 3.3BFY2020
  5. 3.4BFY2021
  6. 3.5BFY2022
  7. 4BFY2023
  8. 4.1BFY2024
  9. 3.9BFY2025
  10. 4.8BFY2026
  11. 0FY2027

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. CACI NSS, LLC$163.5M3.4%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$1.7B35%
  2. IT & telecom$1.2B26%
  3. Transportation & logistics$569.5M12%
  4. Professional services$552.5M12%
  5. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$464.3M9.7%
  6. Research & development$167.9M3.5%
  7. Equipment maintenance$36.6M0.8%
  8. Other equipment & supplies$33.1M0.7%
  9. Education & social services$25M0.5%
  10. Construction & real property$13.6M0.3%
  11. Health & medical$3.4M0.1%

Where the work was performed

  1. Virginia$2.6B55%
  2. Maryland$239.1M5.0%
  3. California$174.7M3.7%
  4. New York$173.2M3.6%
  5. Texas$158.4M3.3%
  6. Missouri$89.2M1.9%
  7. Florida$66.5M1.4%
  8. Illinois$50.7M1.1%
  9. New Jersey$48.2M1.0%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition29%
    US 39% · $1.4B
  • Sole-source awards16%
    US 30% · $784.9M
  • Single-offer competitions12%
    US 8.7% · $596.4M
  • Urgency justifications22%
    US 5.1% · $1B
  • Year-end rush17%
    US 6.0% · $832.8M
  • Undefinitized contracts0.9%
    US 5.0% · $41.1M
  • Time-and-materials pricing19%
    US 4.2% · $918M

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Offices with the most sole-source money

Largest awards

  1. SALUS WORLDWIDE SOLUTIONS CORP.· Arlington County, VA· Transportation & logistics· May 22, 2025 – Sep 4, 2026· 70RDA225FR0000018
  2. DAEDALUS AVIATION CORPORATION· Arlington County, VA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Nov 21, 2025 – Mar 24, 2026· 70QS0326C00005002
  3. ASRC FEDERAL FIELD SERVICES, LLC· Suffolk County, NY· Facilities & utilities· Nov 29, 2017 – Sep 14, 2026· 70RSAT18FR0000005
  4. GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.· Arlington County, VA· IT & telecom· Dec 29, 2023 – Aug 24, 2026· 70RDA124FR0000005
  5. CACI NSS, LLC· Fairfax County, VA· IT & telecom· Feb 22, 2021 – Jan 27, 2026· 70RTAC21FC0000006
  6. MAYVIN, INC.· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· Sep 21, 2020 – Jun 11, 2026· 70RWMD20F00000034
  7. APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 29, 2022 – May 29, 2026· 70RSAT22FR0000104
  8. TRIPLE CANOPY INC· District of Columbia, DC· Facilities & utilities· Jun 12, 2024 – Sep 25, 2026· 70RFP224FREC00024

Federal grants & assistance awarded

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Office of Procurement Operations obligated $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0
Since FY2022
$2.8M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2.9MFY2022
  2. -115.2KFY2023

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2022–FY2023.

Federal grants & assistance

Subawards under this agency's awards

First-tier subawards that recipients of this agency's contracts and financial assistance reported, by the fiscal year of the subaward.

FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $261.7M (295 subawards)

191 sub-recipients

Largest sub-recipients

  1. CFONE INC$33.4M13%
    GAITHERSBURG, MD · 1 subaward
  2. HERNDON, VA · 7 subawards
  3. CHANTILLY, VA · 1 subaward
  4. ASHBURN, VA · 2 subawards
  5. WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward
  6. EXPARA SYSTEMS, INC$11.6M4.4%
    VIENNA, VA · 2 subawards
  7. FCN, INC.$11.3M4.3%
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 11 subawards
  8. AUSTIN, TX · 1 subaward
  9. RESTON, VA · 1 subaward
  10. RESTON, VA · 3 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Committees that oversee and fund it

Congressional committees whose jurisdiction includes this agency, and the appropriations subcommittees that write its spending bill (Analisa's reading of the House and Senate rules; committees share jurisdiction). Leaders as currently published.

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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.