Takeaways:
- The federal government works with less than 1% of all US tech companies
- Only 63 contractors dominate federal government sourcing
- Most tech contractors are “one-and-done” selling to government
- The “99%” should consider teaming with top existing contractors
The federal government works with 1,000,000 contractors. We used Leadership Connect to analyze tech contractor diversity over the last 5-years. The federal government only used 3,782 prime contractors for the all-important tech category of “Computer Systems Design”. This NAICS code [541512] comprises 50% of tech spend. When you look at contractors who average more than 10 awards per year, there are only 63 total companies!
data collected by Leadership Connect Data Science Team