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WinAContract · Sep 22, 2026
Defense Department shows 5,837 open opportunities worth $285.5 billion in cumulative awards, with 31,021 small business set-asides available but dominated by five mega-contractors claiming $106 billion, forcing mid-size firms into intense competition for hardware, valves, and construction work in Virginia, California, and Texas.
5,837
Open right now
95,559
On record
18,162
Awards
$285,499,679,959
Total awarded
The Department of Defense maintains a sprawling opportunity universe of 95,559 contracts on record, with nearly 6,000 currently open and 14,286 posted in the last month alone. Yet the landscape is deceptively bifurcated: while small business set-asides represent nearly one third of all opportunities on the books (31,021), the top five winners have already captured $106 billion, and the average award size of $15.7 million suggests that small and mid-size contractors are competing for genuinely material sums, not scraps.
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