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We help small businesses like yours better understand federal contracting by providing information, guidance, and training so that you can make actionable decisions and compete more effectively for opportunities that match your business’s capabilities and experience.
Start here to understand how we support small businesses like yours and discover the resources we offer to help you navigate federal contracting.
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Our role is to make the federal marketplace less confusing and more accessible for small businesses like yours.
We are committed to giving small businesses real opportunities to compete for federal contracts. Additionally, we are required to provide maximum practicable opportunities in our acquisitions to:
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We negotiate measurable goals each year with the Small Business Administration to make sure small businesses have a fair chance to win work with our agency. Every year, the SBA publishes national contracting goals for small business participation, and we work to meet or exceed those targets in both prime contracts and subcontracting.
For FY 2026, our goals are:
| Category | Prime contracting | Subcontracting |
|---|---|---|
| Small business | 33.5% | 24% |
| Small disadvantaged business | 5% | 5% |
| Women-owned small business | 5% | 5% |
| Service disabled veteran-owned small business | 5% | 5% |
| Historically underutilized business zone small business | 3% | 3% |
Our performance toward these goals is tracked and published in the annual Small Business Procurement Scorecard, so you can see how we’re doing and where we are making progress. Choosing to work with small businesses is not just policy, but a measurable part of how we do business.
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Rates for Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories and possessions are set by the Department of Defense.
Rates for foreign countries are set by the Department of State.
Rates are available between 10/1/2023 and 09/30/2026.
The End Date of your trip can not occur before the Start Date.
Traveler reimbursement is based on the location of the work activities and not the accommodations, unless lodging is not available at the work activity, then the agency may authorize the rate where lodging is obtained.
Unless otherwise specified, the per diem locality is defined as "all locations within, or entirely surrounded by, the corporate limits of the key city, including independent entities located within those boundaries."
Per diem localities with county definitions shall include"all locations within, or entirely surrounded by, the corporate limits of the key city as well as the boundaries of the listed counties, including independent entities located within the boundaries of the key city and the listed counties (unless otherwise listed separately)."
When a military installation or Government - related facility(whether or not specifically named) is located partially within more than one city or county boundary, the applicable per diem rate for the entire installation or facility is the higher of the rates which apply to the cities and / or counties, even though part(s) of such activities may be located outside the defined per diem locality.
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