DHS Awards Skew Mega-Contractor: Small Business Set-Asides Leave $14.3B Concentrated in Five Winners
WinAContract · Jul 20, 2026
DHS's $14.3 billion in awards heavily favor five large incumbents, with small business set-asides representing only 873 of 2,094 opportunities and averaging $61.7 million per award, creating a structural disadvantage for mid-size firms.
324
Open right now
2,094
On record
233
Awards
$14,382,232,186
Total awarded
The Department of Homeland Security maintains a sprawling portfolio of 2,094 procurement opportunities, with 324 actively open and 961 posted in the last month. Yet the award data reveals a striking concentration: the top five winners collected $12.2 billion of the $14.3 billion total, with Fiber Business Solutions Group alone capturing $4 billion. This concentration reflects DHS's reliance on large-scale systems integrators and defense manufacturers, but it also exposes genuine gaps where small and mid-size contractors can compete.
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