FY 2026 Federal Spending Report -NAICS, PSC, UEI (November 2025)

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YES! The government is reopening BUT...

The feds will still be operating under Continuing Resolution (CR), effectively putting spending further behind. What does this mean? It means that contracting officers will be pressed to spend – and they will spend – all budgeted dollars by September 30th, just like they always do.

Contractors have been stressed - but the ones that will be successful have been prepping for the reopening - and they will be ahead of the contractors that didn't.

3 Ways to position your company effectively

1) Leverage Contract Activity on SAMradar.com

While everyone else is focusing on the 2% that hits SAM.gov, you can be using the award data triggered in FPDS.gov that shows up on your SAMradar.com alert.

• Look for new contracts that had less than 5 offers received (this will be most of them)

  

• Contact the Buyer that just awarded in your space

  

• Ask for a quick meeting (the sooner you do this the better)

  • Ask them how that contract happened

  • Ask them how you can be on the shortlist (because it didn't hit SAM.gov)

  • Ask them if they would like to set up a BPA (Blanket Purchase Agreement) for future spending

2) Leverage your expertise with GovBrief.us Interagency Briefings

No matter what you sell, you MUST get your offering in front of federal customers. SAMradar.com will get you to the right buyers - but that is only the contracting side - what about Program Managers? Conventions are already expensive - $10K+ to have and staff a booth is very common.

With budgets being cut for travel - Govies are not coming to conventions - and meeting key stakeholders is why you are going to conventions, right?

This makes getting face time even more difficult. GovBrief.us provides a cost effective way to get yourself considered the SME (Subject Matter Expert).

• GovBrief.us invites from their 1 million contact plus of federal contacts

• They help with federal research & creating your presentation

• They provide a professional host

• They help prospect (most have dozens of opportunities)

• You get established as the SME in yiour space

• You get contacts that NEED what you provide

• You have a finalized video that make you look great - See Samples & Testimonials

3) Use Unsolicited Proposals

Speaking of great topics on GovBrief.us... Did you know that federal agencies accept Unsolicited Proposals from vendors like you? You bet they do. Not only that, the process itself forces federal customers to take notice of what you provide. They can be used for products or services - but here is the key - NEVER submit an Unsolicited Proposal unless they ASK.

That's right. In fact, some agencies are using BAA (Broad Agency Announcements) to ASK for whitepapers and unsolicited proposals.

What if an agency isn't using BAAs? You can still use the Unsolicited Proposal process to:

• Get in the door

• Get your offering known

• Establish an approval path for Sole Source Justification

What is the Unsolicited Proposal process? Simply put, it is a way to frame your offering - even what you might consider a commoditized product - in a way that effectively eliminates the competition.

Learn more here on GovBrief:

About This Government Spending Report:

Report Sources

FPDS.gov is the repository of data. SAM.gov is where contracting officers post opportunities, it is also where the public can run reports on FPDS data using Ad Hoc reports. SAMradar has proprietary intelligence algorithms that provide additional information including deep intelligence on buyer and prime activity that is not available on fpds.gov or SAM.gov.

Why Date Signed vs Date Modified?

There is good reason to care about both, and exactly why SAMradar operates on modifications because contract modifications show spending and prime activity that is also hidden like IDIQ, GWAC, and BPA sales that never show up on SAM.gov. Now, most of the new contract activity (by date signed) is significant because most never post on SAM.gov, therefore most contractors never know of federal sales happening in their NAICS/PSC or niche market.

Report Anatomy and Use Cases

Each Tab includes the ability to sort by the number of Contracts (activity) and Dollars. This provides your insight into activity as well as overall spending. The key for SAMradar members is to utilize this report to find and categorize competitor activity. and add the competitor to your SAMradar vendor monitor.

1. Find competitors in your space, and add them to your SAMradar monitoring.

2. See competitor activity in real-time.

3. Choose your response strategy (see SAMradar templates)

4. Inject your company into the conversation – especially future procurements.

Reconciling Inaccuracies

Federal contract data contains hundreds of data points per contract and data entry is performed by contracting officers and specialists. As a result, the data is not perfect. When assembling federal contract data, there are regular corrections, deletions, and other nuances (including agencies using fields differently) that can create anomalies in the outcome of summarized reports. SAMradar data analyzers are consistently reviewing the data for these anomalies – but we do not correct them because it would challenge the integrity of the reports.