Your question, not one of ours
Every other page in the product answers a question the product chose. This one answers a question you choose. Take any filter that works on the award history, point it at this page, and the same slice is described six ways.
every state the same size, so DC is readable
Trends, shares, categories, maps, vehicles, awardees
Obligations by fiscal year and month by month, so the September spike at the end of a fiscal year is visible and can be planned for. Who holds the money and how concentrated it is. What it was bought under, by code, by product or service, by set-aside and by how it was competed. Where it went. Which vehicles it left through. And who won it, with which way each of them is trending.
One view is computed at a time rather than all six at once, which is the difference between a page that answers and a page that keeps you waiting.
- Every fiscal year the filter touches, back to FY2001
- A concentration index over every company in the filter, not just the ones shown
- The vehicles the work is ordered through rather than competed
- Growth left blank rather than invented where a company has no prior period
concentration 4,072: this is a displacement, not a bid counted on resolved identity, or one firm reads as five
Two maps, and the gap between them
One map is where the work is performed. The other is where the companies that won it are registered. They are not the same map, and the gap between them is the finding.
Where far more work is performed in a state than is paid to companies registered there, that state's federal work is being flown in. That is precisely the opening a local supplier is looking for and it is invisible on either map on its own, which is why almost nobody publishes it.
- Money by place of performance
- Money by the winner's home state
- The states whose work is most heavily imported, ranked
- Click a state to open the awards behind it
Space Coast, Florida. Rings: 25 and 50 miles.
Why the map is squares and not an outline
On a geographic map a state is drawn at its land area, and federal contracting money is not distributed by land area. It is concentrated in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia. DC alone takes tens of billions a year and is about one pixel on an area map, while Montana is enormous and takes almost nothing. A conventional choropleth of this data is a picture of the United States that hides its single largest fact. Every state gets the same square here, positioned roughly where it belongs, so the small ones that hold the money are as readable as the large ones that do not. It also survives a phone, which a detailed coastline does not.
Where it is in the app
Analysis and maps, under Intelligence in the menu, in Companies and records. Intelligence is the part of LastAwarded that finds the market, one of the eight parts.
Related
- Award historyThe records underneath.
- Vehicles and IDIQsThe vehicle view in full.
- Incumbent profilesOne company at a time.
See who was last awarded in your NAICS
Every code, every buying office, every vendor and every recompete, organized from the federal record and read nightly. Open it with a plan.