Federal agency
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)
$1.5 Million committed in FY2025
- Mission
- FMCS's mission statement reflects the statutory intent of the Agency. Our mission is to: Promote the development of sound and stable labor management relationships; Prevent or minimize work stoppages by assisting labor and management to settle their disputes through mediation; Advocate collective bargaining, mediation and voluntary arbitration as the preferred processes for settling issues between employers and representatives of employees; Develop and advocate the art, science and practice of conflict resolution through the use of ADR; Assist parties in conflict through the provision of conflict resolution services; and Foster the establishment and maintenance of constructive joint processes to improve labor-management relationships, employment security and organizational effectiveness.
- Sub-agencies
- 1 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.fmcs.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 093
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves FMCS.
Contracts
$1.5M
100%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of FMCS'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 FMCS buys under contract, by dollars committed.
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$1.1M
It and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software)
$630,022
It and Telecom - Network Support Services (Labor)
$130,050
It and Telecom - Service Delivery Management (Hardware and Perpetual License Software)
$120,770
Support- Management: Auditing
$89,073
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Software as a Service
$76,838
Transport/Travel/Relocation- Travel/Lodging/Recruit: Purch of Transit/Public Transport Fare Media
$64,762
It and Telecom - Application Development Software (Perpetual License Software)
$61,197
Books and Pamphlets
$27,840
It and Telecom - Network as a Service
$3,362
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by FMCS.
Competition
How competitively FMCS'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
$1.1M
74%
Not competed
$397,830
26%
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars FMCS 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
$204,388
13%
8(a)
$617,580
40%
Service-disabled veteran
$15,517
1%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where FMCS's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Georgia
$871,282
Connecticut
$370,524
Maryland
$223,077
By fiscal year
Committed dollars fell 66% across FY2018–FY2025. FMCS'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 agency committed — legally promised by signing a contract or awarding a grant — counted in the year each action happened, not cash out the door.
- From FY2018 on
Agency pages start at fiscal year 2018, the first year of complete federal-assistance reporting. Earlier years aren't shown rather than shown wrong.
- 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.
- Benefits show as programs
Medicare, Social Security, and other direct payments to individuals are aggregated by the government, so under Where the money goes they appear as the program, not a named recipient.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
