Federal Marketplace Index · Measured. Reconciled. Public. data as of 2026-07-01 · built 2026-07-02
3.59%
of small-business dollars under the mandatory floor
3.96%
of women-owned dollars under the mandatory floor
70.7%
SB dollars in the order channel, FY2026

Independent, reproducible measures of the federal small-business marketplace.

The Federal Marketplace Index tracks where federal contract dollars actually flow, how much of the marketplace mandatory small-business protections actually reach, and which way both are trending — from roughly 30 million public contract records, reconciled against the government's own published totals. Every number can be rebuilt by anyone, from public data, with the code on this site.

Where the mandatory Rule of Two applies

Share of five-year contract dollars (FY2022–FY2026) in each protection layer. The teal band — standalone awards between the micro-purchase threshold and the simplified acquisition threshold — is the only layer where small-business set-asides are mandated by statute.

Contract dollars by Rule of Two protection layer

Percent of each category's FY2022–FY2026 dollars
source: exposure_layers.csv · FY2022–FY2026 · reconciled to SBA goaling figures · methodology

The migration into the order channel

Share of each category's dollars flowing through task and delivery orders, by fiscal year. Small-business dependence on the order channel has risen every year of the window while the overall market's share has held roughly stable — the migration is concentrated on the protected categories.

Order-channel share of dollars by fiscal year

FY2026 is a partial year
source: order_channel_share_by_fy.csv · FY2022–FY2026 · reconciled to SBA goaling figures · methodology
Version 0. This is the Index's first public release, published to accompany formal comments filed in the FAR Overhaul rulemakings (FAR Cases 2026-001, -002, -005, -007). Additional measures — new entrants, vendor concentration, and district-level views — join on the quarterly schedule. See the changelog for exactly what changed and when.