Which state has the most federal contract records here?

Illinois, with 5,268,297 contract award records on file as of August 21, 2026 — the most of any state in this directory. That is a ranking of the records we hold, not of total federal spending by state, and it partly reflects where large military and civilian installations sit. Open any state to see the agencies, contractors and dollar figures behind its number.

What is the difference between a contract award and an open bid?

An award is history: a contract the government has already signed, published as permanent public record, showing who won, which agency bought, and what it paid. An open bid is a solicitation still accepting offers, with a deadline you can still meet. Awards tell you which buyers are worth pursuing and what the work goes for; open bids are what you can actually respond to today. Every state page on this site carries both.

Do I have to be based in a state to win contracts there?

No. Federal contracts are open to any business with an active SAM.gov registration, wherever it is headquartered. The state a contract appears under here is its place of performance — where the work gets done. Being nearby genuinely helps on mobilization cost and on site visits, and some state and local solicitations do apply residency or local preference, but the federal awards in this directory carry no such requirement.

Why is my trade listed under every state?

Because the same trades — Construction Trades, Janitorial & Facilities, Electrical Contractors, Plumbing Contractors, HVAC Contractors, Roofing Contractors — are bought in all of them, and what changes between states is who buys, who currently holds the work, and what it pays. Each state-and-trade page is built from that state's own award records, so a page with nothing on file shows an empty section rather than borrowing figures from a neighbouring state.

Is this every government contract in the United States?

No, and no free source is. This directory covers federal prime contract awards published by USAspending.gov, loaded for a defined set of industries and years, plus the live solicitations we track from SAM.gov and state portals. It does not include state, county or city purchasing, subcontracts, grants, or classified work. Treat the figures as a floor on the market, not a ceiling.

How do I find bids for my trade in my state?

Start with your state below, then narrow to your trade — that is what the 306 state-and-trade pages in this directory are for. Each one shows the award history for that combination and the solicitations open in it right now. A bid arrives carrying the agency's own published record — the buyer, the deadline, the solicitation number and the documents — and picks up a plain-English summary of what the job is and what disqualifies bidders once the summarizer has read it. One ingested since that batch last ran shows the published record on its own until then.

All 50 states & DC · Federal contract awards

Government contracts by state

Every state, and every trade within it. Pick where you work and see the federal contract awards already on the books there — which agencies did the buying, which contractors did the winning, what the work actually paid — then the solicitations open for bid right now, each one summarized in plain English by Sam.

Award records across the 50 states and DC: 35,881,099
States and districts with records: 51 of 51
State and trade pages in this directory: 357

Measured August 21, 2026: every award figure on this page describes the records we held at that moment, not the corpus as it stands right now.

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Why start with awards instead of open bids

The usual way in is to find a solicitation, spend two weeks on a proposal, and lose to a contractor who has held the work since before you registered. Award history runs the other direction. It is permanent public record — every federal contract, the agency that bought it, the company that won it, and the amount — so before you write a word you can see which buyers in your state purchase what you sell, how often they come back, and roughly what they pay for it.

That is what each page below is built on. A state page answers the broad question: who buys here, who wins here, how big is a typical contract. A state-and-trade page narrows it to the work you actually do, because the answer for roofing in Arizona has almost nothing to do with the answer for janitorial services in Ohio. Both end with the same thing — the solicitations open in that slice right now, so history turns into something you can bid.

Two practical notes before you dig in. Place of performance is where the work happens, not where the winner is headquartered, so a state page shows the market you would be serving rather than a list of local companies. And a contract with an end date twelve to eighteen months out is a recompete in the making: the agency starts market research long before anything is posted, and that quiet window is when a capability statement and a call to the contracting office are worth more than any proposal you could write later.

Every state, and every trade within it

The figure beside each state is the exact number of federal contract award records on file for work performed there when we last measured, and the bar shows its share of the 35,881,099 records across all states. Open a state for the dollar figures, the agencies and the contractors behind its count.

Northeast

The nine states the Census Bureau groups as the Northeast, from Maine down to Pennsylvania.

Midwest

The twelve Census Bureau Midwest states, spanning the Great Lakes and the Great Plains.

South

The sixteen Census Bureau South states plus the District of Columbia, which the Bureau counts in this region.

Alabama
537,290 award records
Arkansas
219,229 award records
Delaware
59,022 award records
District of Columbia
261,364 award records
Florida
1,328,526 award records
Georgia
1,021,325 award records
Kentucky
374,544 award records
Louisiana
269,477 award records
Maryland
910,082 award records
Mississippi
461,706 award records
North Carolina
1,349,662 award records
Oklahoma
206,033 award records
South Carolina
316,386 award records
Tennessee
194,473 award records
Texas
1,373,439 award records
Virginia
2,180,132 award records
West Virginia
56,308 award records

West

The thirteen Census Bureau West states, from the Mountain states out to the Pacific and Alaska and Hawaii.

Where these numbers come from

Source. Federal prime contract awards published by USAspending.gov, the government's official spending record. Public record, free, no data vendor in between. Every award on a state page links back to its page there so you can check any figure yourself.
What the state figure counts. The number of stored award records whose place of performance is that state — where the work happens, not where the winner is headquartered. It is an exact count of what we hold, not an estimate of federal spending in the state, and it is not a dollar figure. The dollars live on each state page, computed from the rows that page actually reads.
When it was measured. Measured August 21, 2026: every award figure on this page describes the records we held at that moment, not the corpus as it stands right now. The counts are folded from the stored records in batch, not counted again on every page load, so what you see is the result of that fold rather than a live tally. The most recently updated award record behind these figures was written to our store on August 20, 2026.
Records no state page carries. Some award records report no place of performance at all — work performed overseas, or a field the source left blank. They belong to no state, so they appear on no state page and are in none of the figures above; we will not assign a contract to a state the government did not name. We do not put a number on them here either: the per-state measurement this page reads does not cover them, and an unmeasured figure is one we do not publish.
Scope. Contract awards only. Grants, loans and direct payments are excluded — they are not work a contractor competes for. State, county and city purchasing is not in the award figures at all, though state solicitations do appear in the live bid feed.
Missing values. Where a source records no amount, agency or recipient, we leave it out rather than filling it in. A state we have not measured shows no figure at all rather than a zero, and a state we have measured and found empty says so in words — an uncounted state and a state with nothing in it are different facts, and only one of them is a number.