Businesses

Protecting business is our business. Our investigations make a difference to your bottom line and the overall economy—whether it’s keeping the competitive playing field level through our antitrust cases, protecting trade secrets and intellectual property, patrolling cyberspace, or preventing financially-crippling terrorist attacks. We work with business professionals across the country every day—not just to request support for our investigations, but to provide a range of services and to join together to protect vital infrastructure.

Learn about major partnerships with the private sector, how to do business with us, the threats we investigate, and more.

Key Information-Sharing Partnerships

Learn more about these four partnerships, what they offer to the private sector, and how to join by visiting the links below.

Office of Private Sector

To do its job, the FBI works with both government and private sector partners every day and at…

Domestic Security Alliance Council

The Domestic Security Alliance Council, or DSAC, is a security and intelligence-sharing initiative between the FBI, the Department…

InfraGard

InfraGard brings together representatives from the private and public sectors to help protect our nation’s critical infrastructure…

iGuardian

With cyber threats continuing to emerge at the forefront of the FBI’s criminal and national security challenges…

Learn About Key Threats to Businesses

These are among the key threats and security risks facing businesses today. The pages and sections below include some information on protections and mitigations. More details can be found by joining one or several of the information-sharing partnerships listed above.

Terrorism

To counter terrorism, the FBI's top investigative priority, we use our investigative and intelligence capabilities to neutralize…

Counterintelligence

The FBI is the lead agency for exposing, preventing, and investigating intelligence activities, including espionage, on U.S…

Cyber Crime

The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating cyber attacks by criminals, overseas adversaries, and terrorists. The…

Intellectual Property Theft/Piracy

Preventing intellectual property theft is a priority of the FBI’s criminal investigative program. It specifically focuses on…

Business E-Mail Compromise

Business e-mail compromise (BEC) is a growing financial fraud that is more sophisticated than any similar scam the…

Health Care Fraud

The FBI is the primary investigative agency involved in the fight against health care fraud, with jurisdiction over…

Active Shooter Resources

This is the FBI's one-stop shopping webpage for information pertaining to active shooting incidents. The Bureau continues…

Workplace Violence

This booklet is aimed at prevention, intervention, threat assessment and management, crisis management and critical incident response, and…

Financial Institution/Mortgage Fraud

The FBI is committed to aggressively pursuing those who endanger the stability of our banking system and the…

Doing Business with the FBI

Important CARES Act Notice

Following the provisions of the CARES Act, Section 3610, firms with FBI contracts may submit a package to request reimbursement for workers placed in a leave status due to the COVID-19 national health emergency and the inability to telework or access government office space. Please contact your contract officer or contract officer representative for more information and required forms.

To carry out its intelligence and law enforcement mission, the FBI must meet the needs of our personnel and manage the facilities we have located across the country and around the world. The FBI uses a competitive process to acquire the goods and services that support the work we do, in accordance with part six of the Federal Acquisition Regulations.

We follow a category management approach to procurement and make bulk purchases in the following key categories:

Information technology and telecommunications
Professional services/research and development/security and protection
Construction and facilities

Some examples of products and services required by the FBI in these categories are:

Computer systems design services
Computer and computer peripheral equipment and software merchant wholesalers
Electronic computer manufacturing
Custom computer programming services
Computer and software stores
Computer and office machine repair and maintenance
Computer training
Other computer peripheral equipment
Other computer-related services
Wireless telecommunications carriers (except satellite)
Radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment manufacturing
Marketing consulting service
Office administrative service

Administrative management and general management consulting services
Data processing, hosting, and related services
Other management consulting services
All other legal services
Office of real estate agents and brokers
Commercial and institutional building construction
Facilities support services
Engineering services
All other miscellaneous store retailers (except tobacco stores)
Office furniture (except wood manufacturing)
All other leather goods manufacturing
Analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing

Information for Small Businesses

Our Small Business Program Office (SBPO)  is committed to ensuring that small businesses are given priority in the FBI’s procurement efforts and encourages small businesses to pursue FBI procurements. The SBPO  advocates for the following types of small business by issuing full and partial small business set-asides that meet federal goals and regulations:

Disadvantaged
Women-owned
Service-disabled veteran-owned
Historically Underutilized Business Zone-certified

The FBI’s procurement forecast can be found within the consolidated DOJ forecast.

Contact us at:
Small Business Representative
Small Business Competition Coordination Unit 
Room 6863
935 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20535
smallbusiness@fbi.gov

FBI Small Business Goals for Fiscal Year 2020 

Description	Goals
Small business	30.75% prime contracting 38% subcontracting
Small disadvantaged business	5%
Women-owned small business	5%
Service-disabled veteran-owned small business	3%
Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program	3%

Outreach and Networking Events

The FBI's Procurement Section organizes and attends many  industry outreach events, including vendor and industry trade shows, acquisition-specific industry days, and  professional contract and law enforcement events.  
 
The director of the Department of Justice’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization hosts vendor outreach sessions on the third Tuesday of each month (unless otherwise specified). The FBI’s SBPO staff attends these face-to-face  sessions, as do personnel from other Department of Justice components. Complete information and instructions on how to register for these sessions is available here.

Finding FBI Opportunities

In accordance with guidelines from the Office of Management and Budget, the FBI is held to using best-in-class contract vehicles for many products and services.  The FBI primarily solicits bids and proposals on Beta.Sam.gov, GSA e-Buy,  NASA SEWP, and other government- wide acquisition contracts, as well as through interagency agreements.