Federal agency
Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB)
$3.2 Million committed in FY2025
- Mission
- Protect the Merit System Principles and promote an effective Federal workforce free of Prohibited Personnel Practices.
- Sub-agencies
- 1 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.mspb.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 389
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves MSPB.
Contracts
$3.2M
100%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of MSPB'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 MSPB buys under contract, by dollars committed.
It and Telecom - Service Delivery Management (Hardware and Perpetual License Software)
$863,545
It and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software)
$762,671
It and Telecom - End User as a Service: Help Desk;Tier 1-2,Workspace,Print,Output,Productivity Tools
$335,412
Support- Administrative: Court Reporting
$320,054
It and Telecom - Application Development Software (Perpetual License Software)
$285,066
Support- Administrative: Other
$264,323
It and Telecom - Security and Compliance Products (Hardware and Perpetual License Software)
$185,533
It and Telecom - Data Center Support Services (Labor)
$102,204
Special Studies/Analysis- Mathematical/Statistical
$49,586
It and Telecom - Compute: Servers (Hardware and Perpetual License Software)
$47,648
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by MSPB.
Competition
How competitively MSPB'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
$2.8M
87%
Not competed
$419,243
13%
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars MSPB 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
$295,063
9%
Full and open
$2.9M
91%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where MSPB's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
District of Columbia
$3.2M
Illinois
-$1,986
By fiscal year
Committed dollars grew 10% across FY2018–FY2025. MSPB'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
