What each figure on a code page means
Every code page draws on two public sources: USAspending.gov for twelve months of contract awards, and the SAM.gov Contract Opportunities extract for the notices open on one day.
The twelve months: July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
The Department of Defense and the Army Corps of Engineers publish their contract data to the Federal Procurement Data System 90 days after the fact (USAspending, About the Data). A window running to this week would undercount defense work by a whole quarter, so the window ends on the last day of the most recent month that closed at least 90 days ago. It moves forward a month at a time.
Contract obligations
The money agencies committed on contract actions coded to that NAICS code with an action date in the window, net of deobligations. It covers the four contract award types USAspending groups as contracts: BPA calls, purchase orders, delivery orders and definitive contracts. Indefinite-delivery vehicles themselves obligate nothing; the orders placed under them are counted.
New awards and the median new award
New awards are the contract awards whose base award date falls in the window (USAspending's "new awards only" filter). The median is the middle value of their obligated amounts as recorded today, so half the new awards were smaller and half larger. For the few codes with more than 100,000 new awards (mostly high-volume supply codes), USAspending does not let a search page to the middle of the list, so the median is found by counting awards below successive amounts and is given to about 1%.
Small-business share
Obligations to recipients USAspending classes as small businesses, divided by all obligations under the code. It reflects the size status recorded on each award, not a check of the company's size today.
Set-aside mix
Obligations grouped by the set-aside type recorded on each contract action: total or partial small business, service-disabled veteran-owned, 8(a), HUBZone, women-owned, veteran-owned (VA) and Indian enterprise, plus actions recorded as having no set-aside. Actions with no set-aside type recorded at all, which includes many orders placed under larger contracts, are shown separately.
Top buying offices and recipients
The five awarding offices and the five recipients with the largest obligations under the code in the window, as USAspending names them. Joint ventures appear under their own names.
Open for bids on SAM.gov
From the SAM.gov Contract Opportunities public extract of September 29, 2026: solicitations, combined synopsis/solicitations, presolicitations and sources sought notices coded to the NAICS code whose response deadline had not passed (or that gave none). The median response window counts the days between posting and the response deadline for solicitations posted in the previous 180 days, where at least five exist.
Which codes get a page
The 2022 NAICS edition has 1,012 six-digit codes. A code has a page when it had at least $1 million in obligations and at least 10 new awards in the window; 676 do. Awards coded under codes from earlier NAICS editions that no longer exist ($36.1 billion in this window) are not assigned to any page, because there is no honest way to split them across the 2022 codes that replaced them.
What these figures are not
They describe past federal spending and one day's open notices. They are not a forecast of future awards, not a measure of any company's chances, and not a substitute for reading the notice itself on SAM.gov.