HHS Contracting Favors Large Analytical and IT Incumbents, But Small Business Set-Asides Offer 385 Active Paths
WinAContract · Sep 10, 2026
HHS holds 2,538 active opportunities worth $6.5 billion in cumulative awards, dominated by five mega-contractors capturing over $4.5 billion, yet 385 small business set-asides and 383 ISBEE contracts remain genuinely accessible to smaller players in laboratory instrumentation, medical device repair, and IT services.
153
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2,538
On record
96
Awards
$6,454,711,714
Total awarded
The Department of Health and Human Services is one of the federal government's largest buyers, with nearly 2,600 contract vehicles in flight and 492 new opportunities posted in the last month alone. Yet the market is heavily concentrated: Pfizer, HealthEdge Software, Novitas Solutions, Peraton, and Manhattan Torcon have collectively captured over $4.5 billion of the $6.45 billion in recorded awards. For small and mid-size firms, the real competitive terrain lies not in challenging these incumbents head-to-head, but in the reserved set-asides and specialized niches that HHS still actively pursues.
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