How many government bids are wired for a vendor?
16.5% of open government solicitations (8,766 of 53,170 analyzed) contain at least one strong signal that the bid is wired for a pre-favored vendor.
Source: The Wired Contract Report, BidSparq
Data as of: August 17, 2026 (refreshed weekly)
Sample: 53,170 open government solicitations analyzed
License: free to cite with attribution to BidSparq
Essential statistics
- 16.5% of analyzed bids carry a strong pre-favored vendor signal.
- 23.7% carry at least one signal of any strength.
- 3,440 bids stack two or more independent signals at once.
- Sample: 53,170 open government solicitations with extracted documents.
What this means
Wired here means the solicitation text itself contains patterns that favor a specific vendor before proposals are even due: brand name requirements without an or-equal clause, intent-to-award language, or specifications written around one competitor's product. Knowing the wired rate lets a bidder qualify out early and spend their proposal hours on bids they can actually win.
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