The same four questions for work that is not a part
Most federal dollars buy services: program support, IT, facilities, logistics, training, construction, research. The record answers who buys it, who won it, what it went for and when it comes back, for those codes exactly as it does for a machined bracket.
Live numbers for NAICS 541512 appear here once the data engine has loaded award history. The public sources are being read now.
Start with your primary code, then the codes buyers actually use
Services are coded loosely. The same help desk contract may sit under Computer Systems Design (541512), Other Computer Related Services (541519), Facilities Support (561210) or Administrative Management Consulting (541611) depending on the office that wrote it. Watch your primary code and the three or four neighbors the history shows your buyers using; the NAICS pages list the PSC codes that pair with each.
- Every 2022 code has a page: the sector, the subsector, the codes near it
- Award size bands and medians by code, so a task order reads in context
- Set-aside mix by buyer, which decides who can bid before anything else
What the history tends to show
Services awards recur on a rhythm: a base year and options, then a recompete, often with the same buyer and often with the incumbent favored unless something changed. The recompete table makes that rhythm visible sixty months out. Large vehicles carry task orders that appear as separate awards; the parent vehicle context is still thin, and the site says so.
Competition data matters more here than in parts. Offers received last time, the set-aside used, and whether the award was competed at all tell you whether a bid is a real chance or a formality. The award detail pass fills those fields in for large awards and awards ending soon first.
Codes services firms watch first
541512
Computer Systems Design Services.
Read more →541611
Administrative Management and General Management Consulting.
Read more →561210
Facilities Support Services.
Read more →611430
Professional and Management Development Training.
Read more →236220
Commercial and Institutional Building Construction.
Read more →541715
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences.
Read more →488999
All Other Support Activities for Transportation.
Read more →561612
Security Guards and Patrol Services.
Read more →Hand-written pages are still coming for these codes
Every code has a data page today. The written guidance on quality clauses, portals and set-aside habits starts with defense and aerospace supplier codes and is being extended to services. The numbers do not wait for the prose.
Guides for you
- SAM registrationStart to finish.
- Choosing NAICS codesPrimary and secondary.
- Recompete strategyThe twelve months before the end date.
- Reading FPDS and USASpendingField by field.
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