What share of federal contract vehicles do small businesses hold?
Small businesses hold 70.9% of the 119,060 federal contract vehicles open for orders as of 2026-10-26 (84,056 vehicles against 34,526 held by other-than-small firms), a share counted by vehicle, not by dollars.
Source: The Federal Contract Vehicles index (complete IDV parent set), BidSparq
Data as of: October 26, 2026 (refreshed weekly)
Sample: 118,582 active vehicles with a recorded size determination out of 119,060 (as of 2026-10-26).
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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: 8(a) set-aside vehicles, HUBZone set-aside vehicles, WOSB set-aside vehicles, SDVOSB set-aside vehicles.
Essential statistics
- IDIQs: 68.3% small-business share of 62,403 active vehicles.
- BPAs: 61.3% small-business share of 24,660 active vehicles.
- definite-quantity IDCs: 97.1% small-business share of 14,477 active vehicles.
- GSA Schedules (FSS): 89.3% small-business share of 7,991 active vehicles.
- 40.1% of active vehicles were competed without a set-aside; 31.2% carry a small-business set-aside code, and 21.8% carry no set-aside record on the award.
Set-aside codes recorded on active contract vehicles
| Set-aside code | Active vehicles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| NONE | 47,735 | 40.1% |
| SBA | 37,145 | 31.2% |
| not recorded | 25,993 | 21.8% |
| SDVOSBC | 2,981 | 2.5% |
| 8AN | 1,475 | 1.2% |
| 8A | 1,290 | 1.1% |
| WOSB | 951 | 0.8% |
| SBP | 668 | 0.6% |
| HZC | 507 | 0.4% |
| ISBEE | 141 | 0.1% |
What this means
The share by vehicle count is not the share of dollars: most ordering money flows through a small number of large vehicles held by large primes, so a 70 percent share of vehicles can sit next to a far smaller share of obligations. The count still says something real about access: the door to ordering is open to small firms on most vehicles.
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.
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