The Coast Guard director of contracting and procurement/head of the contracting activity (CG-HCA) provides strategic leadership, oversight and policy direction for all acquisition and contracting operations, ensuring the effective and compliant execution of procurement activities to support Coast Guard missions. The HCA directly supports the Coast Guard’s management of a multibillion-dollar recapitalization investment portfolio of acquisition programs and sustainment efforts across five major product lines/program executive offices (PEO): surface; aviation; shore facilities and supporting infrastructure; robotics and autonomous systems (RAS); and command, control, communications, computers, cyber and intelligence (C5I) systems.

These activities are supported by seven procurement/contracting centers:

• Coast Guard Headquarters
• Operational Logistics Command (LOGCOM)
• PEO AIR
• PEO C5I
• PEO RAS
• PEO SHORE
• PEO SURFACE

The Coast Guard obligated nearly $4 billion through contracts in fiscal year 2025 through nearly 24,000 transactions and 10,000 new contract awards.

Coast Guard

Ombudsman Program for Agency Protests: Program intended to resolve contractor concerns informally within the Coast Guard.

Small Business Non-Retaliation Policy

Commandant Instruction: Major Systems Acquisition Management (MSAM)

Commandant Instruction: Non-Major Acquisition Program (NMAP)

Department of Homeland Security

Homeland Security Acquisition Manual

Homeland Security Acquisition Regulations (HSAR)

For more information, check out DHS Acquisition Policy and Regulations

Federal

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

Acquisition Research Tools

• Acquisition Central
• Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) sponsored by DAU
• Anthology of Commercial Terms and Conditions
• Code of Federal Regulations
• Defense Priorities & Allocations System (DPAS) Program 
• Dept. of Treasury's Prompt Payment Act Interest Rates
• Executive Orders
• FAR Acquisition News
• Federal Acquisition Jumpstation
• Federal Register
• Government Accountability Office (GAO) Bid Protest Decisions
• Government Executive
• GSA Advantage
• GSA eLibrary
• Department of Health and Human Services Office of Acquisitions
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
• Per Diem Rates
• Regulations.gov
• SBA's HUBZone Program
• SBA's Small Business Size Standards
• SBA’s Table of Size Standards
• Section 508 Compliance
• Standard Industry Classification Manual
• CONGRESS.GOV
• USA.Gov
• United States Code (USC) Search
• Where in Federal Contracting (WIF)

If you feel that your company has a product or service which may be of interest to the Coast Guard, you should do the following:

• Monitor System for Award Management, where the government publishes its notices of procurements. This site provides a wealth of information about current government requirements and offers specific guidance that will allow you to submit bids or proposals to the respective agency offices.

Before submitting an unsolicited proposal, you should:

• Carefully and objectively assess your product/service to ensure that it is, in fact, innovative and unique, and that it is not already commercially available to the government.
   
• Research Part 15.6 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) which provides specific criteria that must be met before an unsolicited proposal can be submitted.

Once you have reviewed these requirements and made the determination you have a valid unsolicited proposal, then you should submit your proposal to: CoastGuardUnsolicitedProposals@uscg.mil