Market Pulse

The government market, measured live — computed from our public corpus of bids, awards, expiring contracts, and protest decisions. Free, no account, refreshed continuously. As of Oct 17, 2026.

27,820
open bids right now
41
posted in the last 24 hours
751,478
contract awards indexed
270,748
contracts expiring ahead
$642K
median federal award, 12 mo

The market's pulse

Bids posted per day, last 30 days — is the flow speeding up or slowing down?

Sep 17: 210 postedDec 1: 1 posted

This week vs last

New bids posted — the market's momentum at a glance.

9,169
▼ 6% vs 9,777 last week

The closing window

Open bids whose deadlines hit soon — the work you must move on now.

Next 7 days
9,181
Next 14 days
16,005
Next 30 days
22,771
Counts stack — the 30-day bar includes everything closer.

What the government pays

Federal awards by size, last 12 months — crumbs or whales, at a glance.

Under $100K
0
$100K – $1M
56,998
$1M – $10M
24,771
$10M and up
11,152

The bid clock

Median days between posting and deadline, open bids — how long you really have to respond.

23.0 days
A quarter of open bids give you 14.0 days or less.

Where the bids are

Open bids by level of government.

Local
16,014
State
6,291
Federal
5,515

The hottest states

Top 10 states by open bids right now.

FL
2,257
CA
2,007
TX
1,661
VA
1,566
MA
1,461
OH
1,258
PA
1,221
NY
1,138
GA
982
IL
844

The hottest trades

Top 10 NAICS codes by open bids — where the demand is.

336413
377
332911
173
236220
172
334419
161
332722
129
332510
125
332919
102
339991
99
333998
92
333613
82

Who's buying

Most active agencies, last 30 days of postings.

DEPT OF DEFENSE
7,327
BidNet Direct — CA (unresolved)
1,650
BidNet Direct — OH (unresolved)
1,433
BidNet Direct — TX (unresolved)
1,312
BidNet Direct — VA (unresolved)
1,283
Defense Logistics Agency
1,134
BidNet Direct — PA (unresolved)
1,124
BidNet Direct — IL (unresolved)
753
BidNet Direct — MA (unresolved)
747
BidNet Direct — MO (unresolved)
622

The rebid wave

Contracts expiring by month, next 12 — each one a competition about to reopen.

Oct 2026: 21,594 expiringOct 2027: 1,751 expiring
Every expiring contract is listed, free, on the Recompete Radar.

The pipeline ahead

Planned contract actions by expected award year — what agencies say they'll buy before any bid exists.

FY2025
1
FY2026
7,312
FY2027
2,828
FY2028
41
FY2029
3
FY2030
7
FY2031
1
FY2032
1
Every planned action is listed, free, on the agency forecast pages.

Reserved lanes

Share of expiring contracts reserved for small or disadvantaged businesses — the work only certified firms can chase.

15%
41,052 of 270,748 expiring contracts carry a set-aside.

The referee's record

Government Accountability Office protest outcomes on record — how challenges actually end.

Denied
8
Dismissed
1
Sustained
1
Sustained in part
1
Effectiveness rate so far: 18% — 2 of 11 decisions sustained in whole or part. Young corpus; new rulings are added daily. Read every decision.

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