Sub-agency
Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP)
$848.1 Million committed in FY2021
- Bureau code
- 2041
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves BEP.
Contracts
$848.1M
100%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of BEP'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 BEP buys under contract, by dollars committed.
Paper and Paperboard
$324.0M
Pulp and Paper Industries Machinery
$161.9M
Chemicals
$62.3M
Printing, Duplicating, and Bookbinding Equipment
$60.6M
General Science & Technology R&D SVCS; General Science & Technology; Experimental Development
$26.8M
Housekeeping- Facilities Operations Support
$25.5M
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$16.3M
It and Telecom - Security and Compliance Products (Hardware and Perpetual License Software)
$13.4M
R&D- General Science/Technology: Life Sciences (Applied Research/Exploratory Development)
$12.3M
Support- Professional: Program Management/Support
$10.6M
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by BEP.
Competition
How competitively BEP'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
$662.9M
78%
Not competed
$141.2M
17%
Not available for competition
$44.0M
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars BEP 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
$29.8M
4%
8(a)
$37.4M
4%
Service-disabled veteran
$1.4M
<1%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where BEP's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Massachusetts
$484.6M
District of Columbia
$139.4M
Virginia
$70.4M
By fiscal year
Committed dollars grew 94% across FY2018–FY2025. BEP'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
