How to find which federal agencies buy your product or service
Start from your codes, rank the agencies and offices that spent money on that work, then find what's open and coming. With a worked example: office furniture, $212 million from Defense in FY2025.
The answer in one paragraph
Work backward from past spending: find the industry (NAICS) and product (PSC) codes for what you sell, rank the agencies and contracting offices that obligated money under them, see who won it, then check what's open and planned at those offices. SpendQuery does all of it on one free industry page per code, from USAspending.gov and SAM.gov records.
A worked example: office furniture
The ranking says where to look; the office pages under each agency say which buying offices to meet, and the award list shows the winners you'd compete with.
| Agency | FY2025 obligations | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $212.5M | 2,168 |
| General Services Administration | $75.8M | 33,120 |
| Department of State | $64.8M | 947 |
| Department of Justice | $62.6M | 916 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $53.3M | 566 |
| Veterans Affairs | $10.9M | 131 |
Contract obligations under NAICS 337214 and 337211 (office furniture), fiscal year 2025, USAspending.gov. GSA's 33,120 awards are mostly small orders it places for other agencies.
Step by step
- Find your codes: describe what you sell in the NAICS finder; it shows the codes buyers actually put on notices and contracts.
- Open the industry page for each code: the agencies and offices that buy it, the companies that win it, typical award sizes, and contracts ending soon.
- Open the contracting offices that buy most: what each buys, from whom, how often it gets a single offer, and what it has open.
- Check upcoming buys: agency procurement forecasts, sources-sought notices and contracts coming up for re-bid.
- Check how it's bought: if most money goes through a GSA Schedule, GWAC or BPA, getting on that vehicle comes first.
- Talk to the agency's small business office and an APEX Accelerator (free) once you know which offices matter.
State and local buyers
Federal data doesn't cover state, county or city purchases. SpendQuery's state checkbooks show which state departments pay for your kind of work, and its state and local page shows open bids and awarded contracts where governments publish them.
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Questions people ask
What's the best way to research which agencies spend money on my type of product or service?
Find your NAICS and PSC codes, then rank the agencies and contracting offices that obligated money under them in USAspending.gov records. SpendQuery's free industry pages do this for every code, with the winners, award sizes, contracts ending and open notices.
Which agencies buy the most office furniture?
In fiscal 2025, the Department of Defense ($212.5 million), GSA ($75.8 million), State ($64.8 million), Justice ($62.6 million) and Homeland Security ($53.3 million), under NAICS 337214 and 337211.
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Updated 2026-10-21. General information, not legal advice; the solicitation and the FAR govern each purchase.