Sub-agency
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons
$20.0 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Bureau code
- 1540
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons.
Contracts
$20.0B
100%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons's committed dollars. Direct payments to individuals (Medicare, Social Security, …) are aggregated by the government, so they show as the federal program rather than a named recipient.
What they buy
Top products and services Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons buys under contract, by dollars committed.
Social- Social Rehabilitation
$5.3B
Medical- General Health Care
$1.9B
Medical- Other
$1.8B
Drugs and Biologicals
$1.3B
Medical- Managed Healthcare
$941.0M
Utilities- Electric
$835.8M
Repair or Alteration of Penal Facilities
$704.0M
Construction of Penal Facilities
$528.0M
Food, Oils and Fats
$459.8M
Utilities- Water
$445.2M
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons.
Competition
How competitively Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons's contract dollars were awarded. 'Not available' is legitimate sole-source (a single source — utilities, proprietary parts); 'not competed' is the flag worth a second look.
Competed
$15.3B
76%
Not competed
$2.8B
14%
Not available for competition
$2.0B
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons reserved before bidding for a specific kind of firm — small business, 8(a), service-disabled-veteran, women-owned, HUBZone — versus full and open competition.
Small business
$1.9B
10%
8(a)
$438.3M
2%
Service-disabled veteran
$17.7M
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Texas
$3.1B
California
$1.7B
Florida
$1.2B
By fiscal year
Committed dollars fell 9% across FY2018–FY2025. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons's committed dollars per fiscal year, FY2018–FY2026.
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How to read these numbers
- Committed, not paid
Every figure is money this bureau committed — promised by signing a contract or awarding a grant — counted in the year each action happened, not cash disbursed.
- A slice of its parent
These totals are just this bureau's share; the parent department's page rolls up every bureau inside it.
- From FY2018 on
Like every agency page, a bureau's numbers start at fiscal year 2018, the first year of complete assistance reporting.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
