How do I find federal contracts that are coming up for recompete?

Every federal contract has a period-of-performance end date. When it ends, the work usually has to be re-awarded. USAspending publishes the award data but cannot filter on that end date — its date filters cover when a contract was signed or modified. Recompete indexes awards by end date so you can see what is about to come up.

What is a set-aside contract and why does it matter?

A set-aside is federal work reserved for a category of business — small business, service-disabled veteran-owned, 8(a), HUBZone or women-owned. A small business cannot realistically outbid an entrenched prime for full-and-open work, but set-aside work is reserved by law. Recompete tags which expiring contracts fall under each programme.

Is the contract end date a guarantee the work will be rebid?

No. An end date is the period of performance recorded at time of award. Contracts are extended, modified and terminated early all the time. Treat an end date as a signal to go look, not a promise.

Where does this data come from?

USAspending, the United States federal government's public record of contract awards. Recompete is an independent index and is not affiliated with any government agency.

Custom Computer Programming Services · NAICS 541511

$8.8 billion comes off the board
in the next 180 days.

Name: US federal contracts by period-of-performance end date
Creator: Recompete
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

369 federal contracts in software development and custom application work reach the end of their period of performance before April 3, 2027. Every one of them is work the government still needs done, held by someone who has to win it again.

Industry

Order

Set-aside only

Expiring within 180 days

$8.8B

369 contracts

Inside 30 days

$775M in play

Reserved for small business

28%

97 contracts · $2.4B

Largest single contract

$525M

86 days · INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MAC

Days	Expires	Value	Incumbent	Buying office	Contract
1 Closing	2026-10-06	$5.1M	BUCHANAN & EDWARDS, INC.	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management	1605TA26F00020
3 Closing	2026-10-08	$93.6M	CACI, INC. - FEDERAL	Department of the Army	W91CRB25C5007
4 Closing	2026-10-09	$14.3M	BRIDGEPHASE LLCTotal Small Business	Office of Procurement Operations	70RTAC24FR0000066
4 Closing	2026-10-09	$5.2M	AMIVERO LLC	Federal Acquisition Service	47QPCA26F0001
7 Closing	2026-10-12	$7.9M	HALVIK, LLC	Federal Highway Administration	693JJ322F00429N
9 Closing	2026-10-14	$14.4M	THE EMMES COMPANY, LLC	National Institutes of Health	75N93020C00002
9 Closing	2026-10-14	$14.3M	PALANTIR USG INC	Department of the Army	W912CM26FA001
10 Closing	2026-10-15	$75.1M	LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION	Missile Defense Agency	HQ085425F0001
10 Closing	2026-10-15	$6.1M	ODDBALL, INC.	Securities and Exchange Commission	50310223F0192
11 Closing	2026-10-16	$28.5M	SEGUE TECHNOLOGIES, INCTotal Small Business	Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education	140A1620F0025
14 Closing	2026-10-19	$10.7M	GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.	Defense Health Agency	HT003825FE001
16 Closing	2026-10-21	$10.2M	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION	Federal Acquisition Service	47QPCA26F0005
16 Closing	2026-10-21	$7.3M	APPDDICTIONSTUDIO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY	Federal Emergency Management Agency	70FA3123F00000009
22 Closing	2026-10-27	$66.7M	ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC	Department of the Air Force	FA820422F0001
22 Closing	2026-10-27	$5.8M	SOLUTE	Department of the Navy	N0002423F6314

Showing 15 of 369, closest to expiry first. Browse every industry.

What to do with a date

A federal contract is re-bought on a schedule that runs backwards from the day the current one ends — and most of what decides the winner happens before the solicitation is ever published.

By the time a rebid appears on SAM.gov the requirement is written, the set-aside decision is made, and the incumbent has had a year of conversations with the customer. Knowing an end date early is how you get into that year instead of arriving after it.

18mo → 12mo out
Research
The agency is beginning to plan the follow-on. You want to know more about this requirement than the notice will ever tell you.
12mo → 9mo out
Shape
The requirement is being written now. This is when a specification quietly comes to describe one company's way of working.
9mo → 6mo out
Sources sought
The highest-leverage window on the whole clock, and the one most small businesses sleep through.
3mo → 1mo out
Solicitation
The RFP typically posts in this window, and everything about it is fast.

The full sequence, with what closes at each boundary

Where these numbers come from

Source: USAspending.gov
Index refreshed: Aug 22, 2026, 11:24 AM UTC
Awards indexed: 83,342
Ending within 180 days: 28,590

Every figure on this site is computed from that index at the moment the page loads. Nothing is illustrative, rounded for effect, or left over from an earlier version. You can download a sample as CSV and check any of it against USAspending yourself. Subscribers get the full export.

What this cannot tell you. An end date is the period of performance recorded at time of award. Option years get exercised, bridge contracts get issued, requirements get absorbed into larger vehicles or cancelled outright. A date here means start asking questions, not a solicitation is coming. Anyone selling you certainty about federal procurement timing is selling something they do not have.

Recompete is an independent index and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any United States government agency. Underlying award data is public record. Our derived index is published under CC BY 4.0.

When it lands

Expiring value by month across the next year, for custom computer programming services.

$741M

Oct’26

$1.5B

Nov’26

$2.2B

Dec’26

$1.2B

Jan’27

$1.7B

Feb’27

$1.4B

Mar’27

$897M

Apr’27

$704M

May’27

$962M

Jun’27

$918M

Jul’27

$332M

Aug’27

$804M

Sep’27

$68M

Oct’27

Dec 2026 is the heaviest month — 74 contracts worth $2.2B, roughly 2.4× a median month.

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The problem

Award data is public, but it will not answer the one question a bidder has. USAspending can filter on when a contract was signed or modified — never on when it ends. So the contracts coming up for rebid are invisible unless you index them yourself.

What we do

We pull prime contract awards, keep the ones still running, and index them by the date their period of performance ends. That is the whole trick. It is not clever, it is just nobody’s job.

We also tag which ones were set aside — small business, SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, women-owned. Watching Lockheed re-win a $500M contract is interesting. Knowing which expiring work is reserved for a company your size is useful.

What it costs

The board is free and public — enough of it to check the data yourself and to be useful for a quick look. What a subscription buys is completeness and timing: every match rather than the first 15, the full export, and an email the day something enters the window instead of whenever you next think to visit.

$8.8 billion comes off the board in the next 180 days.

What to do with a date

Research

Shape

Sources sought

Solicitation