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Federal Contract Solicitations by Industry

Solicitations posted on SAM.gov by NAICS sector of the work, a month

Construction: 3,769 in Q3 2026the highest in data back to 2020+2,418 since Q1 2020

5 of 6 series are above their level a year earlier·3 of 6 are at a five-year high

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

Federal contract notices on SAM.gov by the month they were posted, counted once by the type they were first posted as. Solicitations include combined synopsis/solicitations. Not every federal purchase is posted. Quarterly averages of the monthly counts.

What the government is buying, by the industry code agencies give each solicitation: manufactured goods, construction, professional and technical services, facilities support, software and health care.

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Federal Contract Solicitations Posted: Construction (NAICS 23, Monthly). Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, U.S. General Services Administration: the public data extracts on sam.gov/data-services (ContractOpportunitiesFullCSV.csv, every active notice, daily; the Archived Data files FY2018 on). Public domain. Refreshed daily.

Federal Contract Solicitations Posted: Manufactured goods (NAICS 31–33, Monthly). Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, U.S. General Services Administration: the public data extracts on sam.gov/data-services (ContractOpportunitiesFullCSV.csv, every active notice, daily; the Archived Data files FY2018 on). Public domain. Refreshed daily.

Federal Contract Solicitations Posted: Information and software (NAICS 51, Monthly). Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, U.S. General Services Administration: the public data extracts on sam.gov/data-services (ContractOpportunitiesFullCSV.csv, every active notice, daily; the Archived Data files FY2018 on). Public domain. Refreshed daily.

Federal Contract Solicitations Posted: Professional, scientific and technical services (NAICS 54, Monthly). Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, U.S. General Services Administration: the public data extracts on sam.gov/data-services (ContractOpportunitiesFullCSV.csv, every active notice, daily; the Archived Data files FY2018 on). Public domain. Refreshed daily.

Federal Contract Solicitations Posted: Administrative, support and facilities services (NAICS 56, Monthly). Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, U.S. General Services Administration: the public data extracts on sam.gov/data-services (ContractOpportunitiesFullCSV.csv, every active notice, daily; the Archived Data files FY2018 on). Public domain. Refreshed daily.

Federal Contract Solicitations Posted: Health care (NAICS 62, Monthly). Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, U.S. General Services Administration: the public data extracts on sam.gov/data-services (ContractOpportunitiesFullCSV.csv, every active notice, daily; the Archived Data files FY2018 on). Public domain. Refreshed daily.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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