The Federal Technology Center (The FTC) was incorporated in 1995 as a non-profit public benefit corporation to act as a Partnership Intermediary (PI) for federal laboratories as outlined in legislation of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.

In October 2000, The FTC established a Procurement Technical Assistance Center to provide government contracting to a 10-county area surrounding Sacramento, California.

In October 2003, The FTC was designated as a Statewide Procurement Assistance Program. For the first time since Congress established the Procurement Technical Assistance Program in 1985, The FTC together with the Regional Centers are chartered to provide procurement assistance services to ALL businesses in California.

As of January 2005, The FTC’s procurement assistance program serves the small businesses in 54 of California’s 58 counties. The January 1st addition of the eight counties caps the expansion of our program's service area from 10 counties to 54 counties within the past 15 months. The FTC, designated as the Statewide program by the Defense Logistics Agency, joins four other regional centers to help all small businesses in California contract with the government .