A field guide to where recurring federal, state, and local demand already exists, and where an operator can compete and win without reinventing what they do.
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Download the guide Book a 30 minute call, no costFederal agencies awarded roughly $179 billion in prime contracts to small businesses in fiscal year 2025, about 28 percent of all prime contract dollars.
Every industry on this list clears three tests. Demand repeats every year across federal, state, and local buyers rather than depending on a single program or election cycle. The work travels, meaning the same delivery model works whether the buyer sits in Richmond or Reno. And a real, achievable certification path exists for the operators already doing this work, not a theoretical one.
The five categories covered are field and trade services, facilities and property services, site, safety, and environmental, professional and technical services, and supply, health, and human capital, 25 industries in all, each with its primary NAICS code and why the demand holds up.
None of these industries require starting from zero. If the work is already being done well for private clients, the path into government contracting is a matter of registration, positioning, and a disciplined process for finding and pursuing the right opportunities, not a reinvention of the business.
Jenkins Enterprises provides capture, solicitation analysis, and proposal management support across every category in the guide. We do not compete for the trade or supply work ourselves. We make the operators who already do it competitive for it.
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