541820: Public Relations Agencies
Sector 54, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Subsector 541, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. The federal award record for this code: who buys it, who won it, what it went for, what recompetes soon.
NAICS 541820 in numbers
The biggest buyers in this code are COMMANDER (36 awards, $456.01M), NBC Acquisition Services Directorate (18 awards, $362.62M), and Mission Support Contracting Division (10 awards, $266.50M). The HHS office for the Assistant Secretary for Health's National Center (122 awards, $235.09M), FDA Office of Acquisition and Grant Services (105 awards, $169.12M), and PSB 2 (63 awards, $122.28M) also buy often. The notice does not say how these buyers choose vendors or what vehicles they use.
Across 9,683 awards from FY2001 to FY2027, the code totals $5.65B. The median award is $48.0K, so most awards are small even though a few large awards make up much of the total. Only 443 distinct vendors have won in this code. Most awards carry no set-aside label (5,428 marked NONE and 2,678 with none recorded). Smaller set-aside counts include SBA (1,198), 8(a) related codes (204 and 94), WOSB (19), SDVOSBC (14), and RSB (12). The notice does not explain why those labels were used. A firm should check the set-aside status of any solicitation it plans to bid on.
For the next year, the main signal is the 71 contracts worth $319.10M that end within 12 months. Those expiring awards may lead to new solicitations, but the notice does not say when or whether that will happen. There is 1 active notice in the code right now. Firms that want to track follow-on work should watch these buyers and the expiring contracts closely.
Everything behind these numbers for NAICS 541820
- Every buying office that awarded in this code, ranked by what they spent
- Every vendor that won, resolved to one record per business
- Every award back to FY2001, searchable and exportable
- Contracts ending soon, scored for how open the next round looks
- Every open notice on this code, with the buyer history beside it
The numbers above are open to anybody. The organized record behind them is what a plan pays for: every award, every buyer, every vendor, cleaned, resolved and read again every night.
Open right now under NAICS 541820
1 open notice right now. The newest 5:
| Posted | Notice | Buyer | NAICS | Set-aside | Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Public Awareness campaign strategy on the dangers of counterSources Sought | DEPT OF COMMERCE PTO | 541820 | Nov 6, 2026 |
Where this code sits
NAICS 541820 is a six-digit national industry in the 2022 North American Industry Classification System. It sits under industry group 5418 (Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services), NAICS industry 54182 (Public Relations Agencies), in subsector 541 (Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) of sector 54 (Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services).
Federal buyers assign one NAICS code to each award and each notice. The code describes the kind of business the buyer expects to perform the work, not the item itself; the item is described by the PSC code. The numbers above come from awards and notices carrying this exact code. Related work often sits in the neighboring codes listed below, so watch the neighbors too.
The official definition, with what the code includes and excludes, is on the Census NAICS page linked at the bottom.
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Who bought it ranks contracting offices by what they obligated under this code. Who won it ranks vendors after names are resolved to one record each. What it went for shows award size bands; the median describes a typical award better than the average. What recompetes soon lists awards whose period of performance ends inside twelve months.
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