The Rebid Clock: 230,000+ Federal Contracts Expire Within 12 Months

Every federal contract carries an end date, and here's the part worth your attention: the need almost never expires with it. The fiber still needs splicing, the servers still need patching, the buildings still need cleaning. Right now, more than 230,000 federal contracts run out within the next 12 months — each one a piece of work the government will, in most cases, buy again. Today we're publishing every one of them: the incumbent, the agency, the value, the exact end date. Free, no account, no blurred rows.

An end date is not a guarantee — it's a clock

Let's be honest about what an expiring contract means. When a contract hits its end date, one of three things happens: the agency recompetes the work as a new solicitation, it extends the incumbent with an option or bridge, or the requirement goes away. Nobody can tell you from the outside which one it'll be, and anyone who promises you a list of "guaranteed future bids" is selling weather forecasts as facts.

What the end date does tell you is when the money comes back into play. The records are dominated by recurring services — IT support, maintenance, staffing, logistics, professional services — work the agency needed last year and will need next year. Federal acquisition rules don't let a contracting officer start shopping the week a contract dies; resolicitation planning begins months ahead, which is why a sources-sought notice or RFI for the follow-on so often surfaces six to twelve months before the old contract ends. The end date is the earliest reliable public signal that a rebid is forming.

Why the incumbent's name matters as much as the date

An open bid tells you an agency wants something. An expiring contract tells you who holds it today, what they're being paid, which office signs the checks, and when their grip loosens. That's a different kind of edge. You can walk into the follow-on solicitation having watched the account for months — knowing the incumbent's ceiling, the agency's buying rhythm, and roughly when the paperwork will move — instead of discovering the RFP with twenty days left to write a proposal.

And even when the rebid never materializes, the record isn't wasted. Knowing who wins what in your codes, at what values, is competitor intelligence in its own right — the same reason we opened the award search.

What's on the radar

The Recompete Radar tracks every federal contract in our corpus with an end date in the future — over 230,000 expiring within 12 months, spread across nearly 900 industry codes and 60+ awarding agencies. Search it by keyword, NAICS code, or state; sort by soonest expiration or largest value. Every record shows the full picture — incumbent, agency, dates, value, set-aside — and links straight to the official award record. If you live in one trade, the per-code pages list everything expiring in that lane, soonest first.

How it fits the catch

Bids are emergencies — posted with a deadline already bleeding. The radar is the opposite clock: slow, early, and pointed at next season. Subscribers get both in one morning email — today's new open bids matched to their codes, plus the ten soonest expirations in those same codes, every day. The free weekly scan carries a taste of it: the count and the three closest expirations. The full radar, like the full bid flow, is what the subscription is for.