Federal agency
Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
$14.6 Billion committed in FY2025
- Mission
- The RRB's mission is to administer retirement/survivor and unemployment/sickness insurance benefit programs for railroad workers and their families under the Railroad Retirement Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. These programs provide income protection during old age and in the event of disability, death or temporary unemployment and sickness. The RRB also administers aspects of the Medicare program and has administrative responsibilities under the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code. In carrying out its mission, the RRB will pay benefits to the right people, in the right amounts, in a timely manner, and will take appropriate action to safeguard our customers' trust funds. The RRB will treat every person who comes into contact with the agency with courtesy and concern, and respond to all inquiries promptly, accurately and clearly.
- Sub-agencies
- 1 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.rrb.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 060
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves RRB.
Direct payments
$14.5B
100%
Contracts
$43.0M
<1%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of RRB'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.
Social Insurance for Railroad WorkersProgram
$14.5B
Palmetto Gba, LLC
$18.0M
What they buy
Top products and services RRB buys under contract, by dollars committed.
Social- Government Health Insurance Programs
$18.0M
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Software as a Service
$10.0M
It and Telecom - Network as a Service
$2.8M
It and Telecom - Compute as a Service: Mainframe/Servers
$2.1M
It and Telecom - End User as a Service: Help Desk;Tier 1-2,Workspace,Print,Output,Productivity Tools
$2.0M
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$1.5M
Maintenance of Office Buildings
$956,876
Support- Administrative: Other
$938,769
Utilities- Electric
$784,821
Housekeeping- Custodial Janitorial
$757,530
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by RRB.
Competition
How competitively RRB'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
$39.3M
91%
Not competed
$884,533
2%
Not available for competition
$2.8M
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars RRB 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
$1.4M
3%
8(a)
$3.6M
8%
HUBZone
$31,057
<1%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where RRB's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Texas
$1.1B
Illinois
$880.2M
Florida
By fiscal year
Committed dollars grew 13% across FY2018–FY2025. RRB'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
