How this is built, and what to trust.

Where the data comes from

Every contract on this site comes from USAspending, the federal government’s own public record of contract awards. We do not scrape agency websites, buy data from a reseller, or estimate anything. If a contract is not in USAspending, it is not on this board.

Why this does not already exist

USAspending lets you filter awards by date, but only four ways: when an award action happened, when it was signed, when it was last modified, or whether it’s a brand-new award. None of those is the date a contract’s period of performance ends — we checked all four against a future date window and each one comes back empty. There is no API parameter for “what expires next.”

So we do it the slow way: pull prime contract awards by the dates USAspending does support, keep the ones still running, and store each one’s period-of-performance end date in our own database. Everything on this site is a query against that database, not against USAspending directly — USAspending simply cannot answer “what’s expiring soon,” so nobody else can show you this without building the same index first.

What an end date means

Every end date shown here is the period of performance recorded at the time of award — the date on file in USAspending as of our last pull. It is not a prediction and it is not final. Contracts get extended, modified, exercised as options, or terminated early all the time, and none of those changes are guaranteed to reach USAspending’s public data the same day they happen in a contracting office.

Treat every date on this board as a reason to go verify, not as a guarantee that the work stops that day. We refresh end dates on every pass, so a contract whose period of performance has moved will move on the board too — but there will always be a lag between a change happening and it showing up here.

What counts as “still running”

We only index prime contract awards — BPA calls, purchase orders, delivery orders, and definitive contracts. We deliberately leave out indefinite-delivery vehicles (IDVs): an IDV is a ceiling that work gets ordered against, not work itself, and counting its value would inflate every number on this site with money that may never be spent.

How often this refreshes

The index is rebuilt by an automated process that re-pulls awards from USAspending and updates end dates, amounts, and counts for everything already in the database. There is no fixed public schedule for it yet — if the freshness of a specific number matters to your decision, check the date next to it and verify against USAspending or the awarding agency before you rely on it.

What this is not

Recompete is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any federal agency. It is an independent index built on public data. Nothing here is legal, contracting, or procurement advice — it is a starting point for your own research into a specific award.