Expiring federal contracts, by industry and state
246,900 US federal prime contracts reach the end of their current period of performance within the next 365 days — 56,869 of them inside a month. Every one is work that either gets extended, re-awarded, consolidated or stopped, and the decision is being made now rather than when the solicitation appears.
Counted from USAspending; expiration list last rebuilt on September 20, 2026. The soonest ends Sep 20, 2026.
- Expiring
- 246,900
- within 365 days
- Within 30 days
- 56,869
- 101,051 within 90 days
- Industry codes
- 950
- across 62 states and territories
- Obligated to date
- $1.2T
- median $161.3K
Why an end date is worth more than a solicitation
By the time a recompete is on SAM.gov, the requirement has been written, the incumbent has been talking to the customer for months, and the response window is measured in weeks. The period of performance ending is the public signal that comes first, and it is in the award record from the day the contract is signed. Nothing here is inside information: it is the government’s own spending data, read in date order.
What the record cannot tell you is what the agency will do next. It extends, consolidates, insources and cancels, and none of that is in the file in advance. Findingbase publishes the dates and a renewal score built from five fixed rules with the reasons each one fired; it does not predict outcomes, and a contract it has not scored is shown as not yet scored rather than as a zero.
The agencies with the most ending
- Department of Defense113,814 expiring
- General Services Administration28,514 expiring
- Department of Veterans Affairs25,131 expiring
- Department of Health and Human Services12,702 expiring
- Department of Homeland Security9,212 expiring
- Department of the Interior9,095 expiring
- Department of Justice9,041 expiring
- Department of Agriculture7,412 expiring
How to use this
- Start from your NAICS code. It is on your SAM.gov registration. The directory lists every code with at least five contracts ending in the window.
- Narrow to where you can perform. Each code has a page per state, and each state has a page listing every industry with work ending there.
- Check the award, then the customer. Every identifier on every page links to its record on USAspending: the incumbent, the obligation history, the contracting office. That is who to call.
Expiring federal contracts: common questions
What counts as an expiring federal contract?
A prime contract award whose current period of performance ends within the window — here, the next 365 days. The end date is the one in the award record on USAspending, not an estimate. It is the date the current work is funded and scheduled to run to; options may extend it, and often do.
How many federal contracts are expiring right now?
246,900 prime contracts end within 365 days: 56,869 within 30 days, 101,051 within 90 and 161,560 within 180. They cover 950 NAICS codes, 62 states and territories and 68 agencies. The list is rebuilt nightly from the weekly USAspending import.
Where can I see the contracts themselves?
On the industry and state pages, free and without an account. Each lists the ten soonest to end with the incumbent, the awarding agency, the end date and the amount obligated so far, and every award identifier links back to its record on USAspending so you can check it. An account opens the rest of each list and the weekly email.
Is this the same as a list of open solicitations?
No, and that is the point. A solicitation is published once the agency has decided what to buy; SAM.gov is where those appear. This list is the step before: contracts whose current period is running out, which is where the capture work happens. Findingbase does not publish solicitations and is not affiliated with any agency.
Watch your own codes
An account turns any of these lists into a weekly email — your NAICS codes, your states, your minimum contract size — with anything new in your window called out and the renewal score and its reasons on every row.
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