Bureau of Consular Affairs

The Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs, a civilian sub-agency within the State Department, administers consular operations including passport and visa processing, citizen services, and related logistics; it procures contracts to support these missions. The Bureau has awarded 11,348 federal contracts cumulatively since 1996, obligating $18.26 billion against a combined potential value of $26.19 billion across 1,574 distinct prime contractors. Recent contract activity has declined: the Bureau issued 553 awards in 2022, 677 in 2023, 506 in 2024, 396 in 2025, and 166 year-to-date in 2026.

The competitive landscape is highly fragmented by award count, though concentrated by potential value. United Parcel Service Inc. leads by award count with 221 awards over the last five years, followed by Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees (220 awards) and New TECH Solutions, Inc. (176 awards); these three account for 37 percent of recent awards but carry relatively modest dollar values ($5.5 million, $5.1 million, and $36.9 million respectively). By potential value, the top tier is dominated by Integral Federal, Inc. ($68.6 million across 21 awards), FCN, Inc. ($48 million across 37 awards), and Standard-Blazar, LLC ($44.1 million across 16 awards); however, the top five by potential value hold only 1 percent of the combined potential value across the portfolio, indicating that contract value is broadly distributed across a long tail of small-to-mid-size awards. The dominance of shipping and logistics vendors in the by-count rankings (UPS, DHL Express) reflects the Bureau's operational reliance on document and passport delivery networks.

The set-aside mix is heavily weighted toward open competition: 90 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small Business set-asides account for 7 percent of awards, with 8(a) Sole Source at 1 percent and all other designations (Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, HUBZone, Woman-Owned) comprising less than 1 percent combined.

No recent contract opportunities are recorded in the portfolio. The most recently recorded award date is 2026-10-01, indicating current activity, but no open solicitations are present in the source data.

The Bureau of Consular Affairs provides passport services to U.S. citizens, issues Visas to enter the U.S., manages the Diversity Visa Lottery, and provides services to U.S. citizens abroad.