What share of federal contract vehicles do small businesses hold?

Small businesses hold 70.7% of the 123,364 federal contract vehicles open for orders as of 2026-09-10 (87,196 vehicles against 36,156 held by other-than-small firms), a share counted by vehicle, not by dollars.

Essential statistics

• IDIQs: 68.5% small-business share of 65,020 active vehicles.
• BPAs: 61.4% small-business share of 26,252 active vehicles.
• definite-quantity IDCs: 97.0% small-business share of 14,510 active vehicles.
• GSA Schedules (FSS): 89.3% small-business share of 8,059 active vehicles.
• 40.1% of active vehicles were competed without a set-aside; 30.9% carry a small-business set-aside code, and 22.1% carry no set-aside record on the award.

Set-aside codes recorded on active contract vehicles

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.