How many GWACs, GSA Schedules, IDIQs and BPAs are active?
Of the 119,021 federal contract vehicles open for orders as of 2026-10-27, 62,377 are IDIQs, 24,655 are BPAs, 7,983 are GSA Schedules and 1,484 are GWACs; the rest are requirements, definite-quantity and unspecified IDCs and basic ordering agreements.
Source: The Federal Contract Vehicles index (complete IDV parent set), BidSparq
Data as of: October 27, 2026 (refreshed weekly)
Sample: 119,021 active vehicles by USAspending IDV type code (as of 2026-10-27); vehicles with implausible far-future end dates are excluded from the median.
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Verify this yourself: USAspending.gov custom award download (filter by IDV award type to pull the same contract vehicle records).
Browse the vehicles behind this number: GWACs open for orders, GSA Schedules (FSS) open for orders, IDIQs open for orders, BPAs open for orders.
Essential statistics
- IDIQs: 62,377 active (52.4%), 23,374 holders, median 26 months of ordering period left.
- BPAs: 24,655 active (20.7%), 14,036 holders, median 28 months of ordering period left.
- definite-quantity IDCs: 14,477 active (12.2%), 4,727 holders, median 32 months of ordering period left.
- GSA Schedules (FSS): 7,983 active (6.7%), 7,814 holders, median 30 months of ordering period left.
- GWACs are the rarest vehicle type (1,484) and the most concentrated: a handful of government-wide programs carry a large share of IT ordering.
Active federal contract vehicles by type
| Type | Code | Active | Share | Holders | Small-business share | Median months left |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDIQs | IDV_B_B | 62,377 | 52.4% | 23,374 | 68.3% | 26 |
| BPAs | IDV_E | 24,655 | 20.7% | 14,036 | 61.3% | 28 |
| definite-quantity IDCs | IDV_B_C | 14,477 | 12.2% | 4,727 | 97.1% | 32 |
| GSA Schedules (FSS) | IDV_C | 7,983 | 6.7% | 7,814 | 89.3% | 30 |
| requirements IDCs | IDV_B_A | 4,977 | 4.2% | 2,741 | 51.4% | 28 |
| BOAs | IDV_D | 2,388 | 2.0% | 1,979 | 50.7% | 35 |
| GWACs | IDV_A | 1,484 | 1.3% | 1,163 | 80.0% | 120 |
| vehicles | IDV | 388 | 0.3% | 323 | 0.0% | 59 |
| IDCs (unspecified kind) | IDV_B | 39 | 0.0% | 39 | 41.0% | 40 |
What this means
An indefinite delivery vehicle is the umbrella contract agencies place orders under: GWACs, GSA Schedules, IDIQs, BPAs and BOAs. This corpus holds every IDV parent USAspending records with a transaction since fiscal 2008, refreshed daily, so these are counts over the whole population, not a sample. Active means the ordering period ends today or later.
Counts are of vehicles, never of dollars: a vehicle's ceiling is shared by every holder and says nothing about what has been ordered. Holder rankings exclude USAspending's recipient placeholder for miscellaneous foreign awardees.
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