Sub-agency
Federal Prison Industries / Unicor
$3.7 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Bureau code
- 1542
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves Federal Prison Industries / Unicor.
Contracts
$3.7B
100%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of Federal Prison Industries / Unicor'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 Industries / Unicor buys under contract, by dollars committed.
Office Furniture
$874.9M
Textile Fabrics
$530.8M
Passenger Motor Vehicles
$316.5M
Miscellaneous Construction Materials
$191.7M
Construction of Other Industrial Buildings
$175.6M
Installation of Equipment- Furniture
$128.8M
Miscellaneous Vehicular Components
$113.0M
Support- Professional: Other
$110.4M
Support- Management: Other
$107.9M
Education/Training- General
$83.6M
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by Federal Prison Industries / Unicor.
Competition
How competitively Federal Prison Industries / Unicor'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
$3.2B
86%
Not competed
$378.6M
10%
Not available for competition
$132.7M
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars Federal Prison Industries / Unicor 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
$289.0M
8%
8(a)
$14.4M
<1%
Service-disabled veteran
$173.1M
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where Federal Prison Industries / Unicor's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Wisconsin
$580.6M
Virginia
$464.0M
Texas
$346.7M
By fiscal year
Committed dollars fell 55% across FY2018–FY2025. Federal Prison Industries / Unicor'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
