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Method, data source and what "expiring" means

RebidRadar is a computed view of one public dataset. This page states exactly where the data comes from, how it is transformed, and the limits of the signal.

The source

All contract data comes from USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury), the official public record of U.S. federal spending. Federal government works are in the public domain. We attribute the source on every page and link each contract back to its official USAspending award record so you can verify it.

How each contract gets here

  1. We enumerate active federal contract awards (award types C and D) ordered by value.
  2. For each award we fetch its detail record, which includes the current period of performance start and end dates, the recipient, the awarding agency and sub-agency, the NAICS industry code, and the base-and-all-options ceiling value.
  3. We keep only awards whose current period-of-performance end date falls within the next 18 months. That set is the recompete cliff.
  4. We then compute the totals and rankings you see per agency, per industry, per calendar year, and months-to-expiry per contract.

This is a periodic snapshot, refreshed by a batch job. It is never queried live per page view. The current snapshot was taken 2026-08-24T19:52:35 and holds 1,629 contracts worth $961,637,602,123.

What "expiring" does and does not mean

"Expiring" is the current period-of-performance end date. It does not guarantee a recompete. When a period of performance ends, an agency may recompete the work, extend the incumbent, exercise a remaining option, or let the requirement lapse. An approaching end date is the earliest reliable public signal that a follow-on could be coming, which is why capture teams watch it, but it is a signal, not a certainty. Always confirm against the official record and the contracting office.

Figures

"Ceiling value" is the base-and-all-options value reported to USAspending, falling back to total obligations where the ceiling is not populated. Aggregated totals are the sum of those figures across the contracts shown. Nothing on this site is estimated, modelled or invented; every number is computed directly from the public record.

Coverage and indexing

To avoid thin pages, an agency or industry page is only listed in our sitemap when it has at least 3 expiring contracts, and a contract page only when it has a named recipient, an awarding agency and an end date. Pages below that bar still render, but are marked noindex.

Get alerts when contracts hit the recompete cliff

A periodic email as contracts approach the end of their period of performance.