What is NAICS code 611210?

611210 is the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 NAICS code for Junior Colleges, inside the Educational Services sector and the Educational Services subsector. Federal solicitations carry exactly one NAICS code, and that code is how the buyer classifies the requirement — it decides which size standard applies to the bid and, with it, whether your business counts as small for that contract.

Where is NAICS 611210 work performed?

Virginia leads of the award records on file for this code, with 5 awards. Place of performance is where the work happens, not where the winner is headquartered, so this is the market you would be serving rather than a list of local companies. The full state breakdown is on this page, and each state links to its own award history.

Are there open government bids under NAICS 611210 right now?

Not as of this page load. That is a fact about the feed we track — federal SAM.gov postings plus the state portals we pull — and not a statement that no government anywhere is buying this work today. Join the free alerts and Sam will email you when a solicitation carrying 611210 appears.

Do I have to use NAICS 611210 to bid?

You bid what the solicitation says. The buyer assigns one NAICS code to the requirement, and that code — not the list on your SAM.gov registration — sets the size standard your offer is judged against. Your registration should carry every code you can genuinely perform, because that is what buyers filter on during market research, but adding a code you cannot deliver under does not make you eligible for anything.

NAICS 611210 · Educational Services

Junior Colleges government contracts

Q: What is the SBA size standard for NAICS 611210?

We do not hold a size standard published for these exact six digits, and we will not show you a neighbouring industry's figure in its place — sibling codes in the same NAICS family do not always share a standard, and self-certifying against the wrong one is how a bidder ends up claiming a set-aside they do not qualify for. Look up 611210 directly in 13 CFR 121.201, which lists a threshold for every code.

Q: Who wins NAICS 611210 contracts?

Of the federal contract awards on file under 611210, DAVIS DEFENSE GROUP, INC. holds the largest total: 4 awards worth $71,209,594. That is a ranking of this dataset, not of every contractor in the industry, and the table above is capped at the 10 largest by award dollars rather than being the whole field. Those companies are your competition if you bid prime and your customers if you subcontract.

Q: Which agencies buy NAICS 611210?

Department of Defense accounts for the largest total in this dataset: 70 awards worth $134,280,062. Buyers are creatures of habit — the same contracting offices reissue the same requirements on a predictable cycle, so learning one buyer in your code beats chasing every bid in it.

485 federal contract awards on file carry NAICS 611210, worth $157.8M between them. Below: where that work is performed, who has been winning it, which agencies buy it, and the solicitations open under this code right now.

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What NAICS 611210 covers

Official 2022 classification

National industry: 611210 · Junior Colleges
NAICS industry: 61121 · Junior Colleges
Industry group: 6112 · Junior Colleges
Subsector: 611 · Educational Services
Sector: 61 · Educational Services

Codes and titles are the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 NAICS, verbatim. Nothing on this page paraphrases an official title.

SBA size standard

We hold no size standard published for these exact six digits, and we will not put a neighbouring industry's figure here in its place. Sibling codes in the same NAICS family do not always share a standard, and self-certifying against the wrong one is how a bidder ends up claiming a set-aside they do not qualify for. Look 611210 up directly in the SBA table.

13 CFR 121.201— the official size-standard table →

Not sure whether you qualify? The free set-aside checker walks the size test and the certification programs one question at a time.

Federal contract awards under NAICS 611210

Total awarded: $157.8M
Awards on file: 485
Average award: $325.3K
Median award: $27.9K
Largest single award: $37.5M
Period covered: Jun 15, 2004 – Sep 30, 2026

Who wins NAICS 611210 contracts

The contractors holding the most federal contract dollars under 611210, ranked by total award value across every award on file for this code. It is the top of the list rather than every contractor in the industry: 10 companies are shown. These are the incumbents: your competition if you bid prime, and worth a call about subcontracting or teaming before you chase a prime award of your own.

Contractor	Awards	Total awarded
1DAVIS DEFENSE GROUP, INC.J8JYMHMNH317	4	$71,209,59445.1% of total
2FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLANDK9VMLKYJNYP7	1	$37,498,79223.8% of total
3CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGEHEJMYQ16N318	15	$13,997,4638.9% of total
4UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII - HONOLULU COMMUNITY COLLEGEGEWVS5GHPNF4	6	$4,472,8272.8% of total
5EMORY UNIVERSITYS352L5PJLMP8	3	$2,306,3301.5% of total
6CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERJZD1HLM2ZU83	3	$2,276,1021.4% of total
7MAKRO CORP.DRQJPNU65EG5	2	$1,685,8671.1% of total
8LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INCXA7CM7F2LHY3	3	$1,564,5421.0% of total
9BD OF TRUSTEE OF THE MN STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ON BEHALF OF ST. PAUL TECHNICAL COLLEGED1TPH1ADWN57	6	$1,465,8630.9% of total
10HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGELELKBMKKMWN4	7	$1,457,8830.9% of total

Which agencies buy NAICS 611210

Awarding agencies ranked by total contract dollars under this code. An agency at the top of this list runs the same contracting offices, reissues the same requirements, and recompetes the same work on a predictable cycle — learning one buyer well beats chasing every bid badly.

Awarding agency	Awards	Total awarded
1Department of Defense	70	$134,280,06285.1% of total
2Department of Justice	362	$16,073,23310.2% of total
3Department of Health and Human Services	14	$6,264,4884.0% of total
4Department of Agriculture	10	$653,9350.4% of total
5Department of Homeland Security	7	$273,3590.2% of total
6Department of the Interior	4	$76,150<0.1% of total
7Department of the Treasury	8	$63,575<0.1% of total
8National Aeronautics and Space Administration	3	$54,240<0.1% of total
9Department of Veterans Affairs	5	$34,566<0.1% of total
10Smithsonian Institution	1	$15,316<0.1% of total

Where NAICS 611210 work is performed

Every award record on file under 611210, by place of performance — where the work happens, not where the winner is headquartered. 8 further awards report no U.S. state we publish a page for, so they are counted in the total above and in no row below.

Virginia
5 award records
$71,244,501
Maryland
14 award records
$38,846,277
Texas
132 award records
$13,377,019
Hawaii
6 award records
$4,472,827
Ohio
6 award records
$2,362,172
California
29 award records
$2,297,032
Georgia
17 award records
$2,176,655
Florida
14 award records
$1,896,362
North Carolina
14 award records
$1,809,740
Minnesota
11 award records
$1,692,316
New Jersey
4 award records
$1,569,542
New York
10 award records
$1,501,349
Washington
6 award records
$1,400,464
Louisiana
26 award records
$1,186,015
Indiana
45 award records
$1,147,144
South Carolina
33 award records
$1,142,322
Colorado
7 award records
$621,889
Arizona
14 award records
$603,017
Alabama
2 award records
$545,195
Tennessee
7 award records
$453,084
Illinois
18 award records
$361,701
Michigan
7 award records
$345,860
South Dakota
12 award records
$283,674
West Virginia
12 award records
$269,814
Kentucky
2 award records
$243,340
District of Columbia
5 award records
$237,406
Oregon
11 award records
$115,243
Wyoming
2 award records
$56,526
Oklahoma
1 award record
$43,050
New Mexico
1 award record
$36,000
Montana
1 award record
$20,000
Massachusetts
2 award records
$19,191
Pennsylvania
1 award record
$5,000

Government bids open under NAICS 611210

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Awards are history. These are live: solicitations tagged with this code that still have a deadline ahead of them, soonest first, each carrying the agency's own published record — the buyer, the deadline and the documents. Sam's deep workup, the part that names what disqualifies bidders, is published for specialty-trade construction and janitorial and facilities services, and this industry is not in that scope — so we do not publish one here.

Nothing carrying 611210 is open this minute — solicitations come and go daily. Get free alerts below and Sam will email you when one lands.

How to use a NAICS code to win government work

Your NAICS code is not paperwork trivia. It is the hinge the whole federal eligibility question turns on: the buyer assigns one code to the requirement, that code sets the SBA size standard the offers are measured against, and the size standard decides whether your business counts as small — and therefore whether you can compete for the set-aside version of the work at all.

Which means the first question is never “can I do this job”. It is “is this contract classified as work I am registered and sized to do”. A firm that can genuinely perform under 611210 but never listed it on its SAM.gov registration is invisible to the market research a contracting officer does before writing the solicitation, which is where most small-business awards are really decided.

Award history under a code tells you the rest. It shows which agencies actually buy this work and where, which contractors have been holding it, and roughly what it pays — before you spend two weeks on a proposal against an incumbent who has held the contract for nine years. A contract with an end date twelve to eighteen months out is a recompete in the making, and the quiet window before it is posted is when a capability statement and a call to the contracting office are worth more than any proposal you could write later.

None of it works if you are not registered. A federal award requires an active SAM.gov registration with a UEI, and the set-aside on a solicitation decides whether your bid is even read. Both are free to sort out, and both are the most common reason a ready contractor is disqualified on a technicality.

Where this page's facts come from

The classification. U.S. Census Bureau 2022 NAICS. Codes, titles and the sector hierarchy are reproduced verbatim from the Census files and cross-checked against a second official Census file. Nothing is paraphrased or shortened.
The size standard. SBA, 13 CFR 121.201. We print a threshold only when it is published for these exact six digits; where it is not, we say so and link the table rather than showing a related industry's figure.
The award figures. Federal prime contract awards published by USAspending.gov, the government's official spending record. Public record, free, no data vendor in between. Grants, loans and direct payments are excluded — they are not work a contractor competes for — and so is state, county and city purchasing.
What is not here. This is a portion of federal contracting under 611210, not all of it. Treat these figures as a floor: the real market is larger than what is on this page.
Missing values. Where USAspending records no amount, agency or recipient, we leave it out instead of filling it in. An award with no reported amount is still counted as an award but enters no total or average, which is why a row's award count can outrun its dollars.

NAICS 611210 — common questions

What is NAICS code 611210?: 611210 is the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 NAICS code for Junior Colleges, inside the Educational Services sector and the Educational Services subsector. Federal solicitations carry exactly one NAICS code, and that code is how the buyer classifies the requirement — it decides which size standard applies to the bid and, with it, whether your business counts as small for that contract.
What is the SBA size standard for NAICS 611210?: We do not hold a size standard published for these exact six digits, and we will not show you a neighbouring industry's figure in its place — sibling codes in the same NAICS family do not always share a standard, and self-certifying against the wrong one is how a bidder ends up claiming a set-aside they do not qualify for. Look up 611210 directly in 13 CFR 121.201, which lists a threshold for every code.
Where is NAICS 611210 work performed?: Virginia leads of the award records on file for this code, with 5 awards. Place of performance is where the work happens, not where the winner is headquartered, so this is the market you would be serving rather than a list of local companies. The full state breakdown is on this page, and each state links to its own award history.
Who wins NAICS 611210 contracts?: Of the federal contract awards on file under 611210, DAVIS DEFENSE GROUP, INC. holds the largest total: 4 awards worth $71,209,594. That is a ranking of this dataset, not of every contractor in the industry, and the table above is capped at the 10 largest by award dollars rather than being the whole field. Those companies are your competition if you bid prime and your customers if you subcontract.
Which agencies buy NAICS 611210?: Department of Defense accounts for the largest total in this dataset: 70 awards worth $134,280,062. Buyers are creatures of habit — the same contracting offices reissue the same requirements on a predictable cycle, so learning one buyer in your code beats chasing every bid in it.
Are there open government bids under NAICS 611210 right now?: Not as of this page load. That is a fact about the feed we track — federal SAM.gov postings plus the state portals we pull — and not a statement that no government anywhere is buying this work today. Join the free alerts and Sam will email you when a solicitation carrying 611210 appears.
Do I have to use NAICS 611210 to bid?: You bid what the solicitation says. The buyer assigns one NAICS code to the requirement, and that code — not the list on your SAM.gov registration — sets the size standard your offer is judged against. Your registration should carry every code you can genuinely perform, because that is what buyers filter on during market research, but adding a code you cannot deliver under does not make you eligible for anything.

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