Which agencies award the most contract vehicles?
The Department of Defense has 59,240 active contract vehicles, 48.0% of the 123,364 open for orders as of 2026-09-10, held by 22,128 companies; the next largest is the Department of Agriculture with 18,296.
Source: The Federal Contract Vehicles index (complete IDV parent set), BidSparq
Data as of: September 10, 2026 (refreshed weekly)
Sample: 123,364 active vehicles across 62 awarding agencies (as of 2026-09-10).
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Essential statistics
- 62 agencies have at least one active vehicle; the top five account for 86.2%.
- Most common vehicle type at the top agency: IDIQs.
- Highest small-business share among the top ten: Department of Agriculture at 97.1%.
Agencies by active contract vehicles
| Rank | Agency | Active vehicles | Holders | Small-business share | Most common type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Defense | 59,240 | 22,128 | 67.8% | IDIQs |
| 2 | Department of Agriculture | 18,296 | 6,555 | 97.1% | definite-quantity IDCs |
| 3 | General Services Administration | 13,388 | 9,718 | 82.3% | GSA Schedules (FSS) |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | 8,118 | 4,749 | 63.2% | IDIQs |
| 5 | Department of State | 7,327 | 3,155 | 27.2% | BPAs |
| 6 | Department of the Interior | 2,952 | 2,264 | 79.8% | IDIQs |
| 7 | Department of Justice | 2,382 | 1,638 | 68.0% | BPAs |
| 8 | Department of Health and Human Services | 2,174 | 1,450 | 50.6% | IDIQs |
| 9 | Department of Homeland Security | 2,009 | 1,449 | 60.3% | IDIQs |
| 10 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1,662 | 1,414 | 77.3% | GWACs |
| 11 | Department of Transportation | 1,053 | 754 | 52.2% | IDIQs |
| 12 | Social Security Administration | 799 | 744 | 90.2% | BPAs |
| 13 | Department of Commerce | 647 | 540 | 76.0% | IDIQs |
| 14 | Department of the Treasury | 567 | 474 | 55.0% | BPAs |
| 15 | Environmental Protection Agency | 359 | 252 | 56.3% | BPAs |
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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