Every Federal Agency Has a Rebid Calendar — We Put Them All on One Page

Most vendors hunt postings. The smarter ones hunt agencies — because every contract an agency signs has an end date, and the rebid starts forming long before the posting appears. So we built the page we always wanted as vendors: every federal agency we track, ranked by how many of its contracts expire within the next twelve months.

The posting is the end of the race, not the start

By the time a solicitation appears, the clock is nearly run out — we measured it: the median bid is open exactly 21 days. The incumbents and the serious challengers didn't start when the posting went up. They started months earlier, watching the one thing that predicts a posting better than anything else: a contract about to expire.

An agency with expiring contracts in your trade is a target list. An agency without them is a library. The trick is telling them apart quickly — and until now, that meant digging award records one search at a time.

What the index shows

The new agency index ranks every department and agency in our catalog by the number that matters most: contracts expiring within the next twelve months. The board at this writing:

• Department of Defense — 137,000+ contracts expiring within 12 months
• General Services Administration — 30,000+
• Department of Veterans Affairs — 18,000+

In total, more than 230,000 federal contracts across 69 agencies are heading for expiration inside a year. Every one is a competition warming up right now — most of them invisible to anyone who only watches for new postings.

Each entry also carries a plain-English brief on what that department actually does and buys — because not everyone knows that the Department of the Interior runs the national parks, or that the Smithsonian is a real buyer with real contracts. If you've ever wondered whether an agency is worth your attention, the blurb answers it in one line.

How to use it this week

Pick your two or three agencies. Scroll the index, find the departments that buy what you sell, and note their expiring counts. A big number means a full rebid calendar — steady chances to compete. A small number means you'll be waiting.

Open the agency's page. You'll see its award history, its top vendors — read: your competitors — and the NAICS codes it buys under. That's the shape of the market you're walking into, in one screen.

Check the Recompete watch. Every agency page carries a count of exactly how many of its contracts expire within twelve months. Members see every one of those contracts, soonest first — the incumbent, the value, the end date. Free visitors see the count, so you always know what the calendar holds before you decide.

Why we show the count and gate the rows

Honest answer: the counts are free because they help you decide whether the intelligence is worth having — and the rows are for members because that's the product. We think that's a fair trade, and it's the same shape as the rest of the site: search is free, the radar is free, the award pages are free. The morning digest and the full rebid calendars are what members pay for.

If the count next to your agency makes you lean forward, the 14-day trial opens the rows — no card games, cancel with one email.