About DHS

Mentor-Protégé Companies

The mentor-protégé program encourages large business prime contractor firms to provide mutually beneficial developmental assistance to small businesses.

2007 National Strategy For Homeland Security

The National Strategy for Homeland Security guides, organizes, and unifies our Nation's homeland security efforts. Homeland security is a responsibility shared across our entire Nation, and the Strategy provides a common framework for the following four goals: Prevent and disrupt terrorist attacks; Protect the American people, our critical infrastructure, and key resources; Respond to and recover from incidents that do occur; and continue to strengthen the foundation to ensure our long-term success.

Prime Contractors

Large business Prime Contractors who are interested in subcontracting with small, disadvantaged, women-owned, HUBZone-certified, 8(a), veteran-owned businesses.

Small Business Specialists

Individuals listed provide advice to small business owners on individual procurement opportunities and how to do business with their individual components.

How to do Business with DHS for Small Businesses

We offer the following general suggestions for consideration as you develop and implement your marking strategy with DHS’s small business specialists.

Procurement Events

Procurement events include: conferences, meetings, outreach sessions or symposiums, attended or sponsored by Homeland Security procurement officials.

Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Staff

The primary role of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) is to promote and develop strategies for small business participation in the DHS contracting program while adhering to federal small business regulations and ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion in the procurement process.

Contacts listed below can provide overall information on the Department of Homeland Security Small Business program. These individuals generally do not make purchases for the organization.

Small Business Vendor Outreach Sessions

Each FY DHS-OSDBU, as part of the Small Business Outreach Program, conducts 10 sessions of 15-minute pre-arranged virtual meetings with small businesses.

Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

At DHS we understand that small businesses are vital to our national strength. The DHS Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), an advocacy and advisory office, promotes the use of small businesses in the DHS acquisition process. The resources on this page will support your efforts to do business with DHS.

Open for Business - Frequently Asked Questions

These are questions business owners frequently have regarding their company and the Department of Homeland Security.