Market Pulse
Federal contracting read by market instead of by company. The unit is the NAICS code: how much money moves through it, how many firms compete for it, how much the largest few hold, and how much runs through small-business set-asides. Built from the FPDS prime-contract record, refreshed daily. Factual, never scored.
The leaderboards
Each ranks the markets with real, sustained spending by a different question: where the money is, where it is least locked up by incumbents, and where small-business set-asides run deepest.
Largest markets
Ranked by obligated dollars
The NAICS codes with the most federal contract money on the books. Where the biggest, most-established buying programs are, and how concentrated each one is.
View the rankingLeast concentrated markets
Ranked by lowest incumbent concentration
Real money spread across many firms, where the top five hold only a small share. Markets with no dominant incumbent, ranked least-concentrated first.
View the rankingTop 8(a) set-aside markets
Ranked by 8(a) share of the market
Where 8(a) set-aside dollars actually flow, by NAICS code, ranked by 8(a) share of the market. For firms in the SBA 8(a) business-development program.
View the rankingBiggest markets right now
The five NAICS codes with the most federal contract money on the books.
How these numbers are built
Each market aggregates the public FPDS prime-contract record (via USASpending) for one NAICS code, covering federal obligations over the trailing 12 months, refreshed daily. Obligated dollars are net: de-obligations are netted out, so the total is money that actually moved.
Competition is the count of distinct winning entities by UEI. Concentration is the share of awarded dollars held by the five largest recipients, a structural read of the market, not a judgment on whether you can win in it. Set-aside share is the portion of the market awarded through a small-business set-aside. No estimates, no scoring.
Note: a single market's full profile, including who currently wins it and which agencies buy it, is available from the API: GET /api/v1/naics/{code}.
Know the market. Now reach the people in it.
Every market names the firms winning the work. Get the verified business-development contacts at any of them, from the same federal data.