What the National Endowment for the Arts buys, who it buys from, and what's open for bid — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov solicitations.
Contract data as of Nov 1, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage below target — see note below
| Quarter | Awards |
|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 2 |
| Q2 FY2026 | 2 |
| Q3 FY2026 | 12 |
| Q4 FY2026 | 10 |
Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount.
Contracts with at least $250K obligated whose final end date — every option exercised — falls in the window, counted from Nov 1, 2026. These are the Recompete Tracker's default filters (18 months, ≥$250K), so the figures match the tracker for National Endowment for the Arts. “Obligated to date” is what has been obligated on the contract so far, not the value of the follow-on. An end date is when the work stops, not when the replacement is solicited — that usually happens 6–18 months earlier. Source: USAspending.gov prime awards.
| Offers received | Awards | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 36.0% |
| 2 | 4 | 16.0% |
| 3–5 | 7 | 28.0% |
| 6–10 | 5 | 20.0% |
| 11+ | 0 | 0.0% |
From FPDS fields on contract awards that started in FY2026. Offers received is recorded on 96% of these 26 awards and extent competed on 100% — much of the USAspending bulk archive leaves both blank — so each share is over the awards where the field is recorded, not all awards. FPDS's placeholder count of 999 offers is excluded. Task orders under multiple-award vehicles often report the vehicle's offer count, which inflates averages; the single-offer share is the steadier signal. “Not competed” = not competed, not competed under simplified acquisition, or not available for competition (sole-source authorities, including 8(a) directed awards).
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Source: USAspending.gov contract awards (prime awards with a start date from Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2026), SAM.gov contract opportunities, and SBA size standards. Recompetes are contracts whose final end date — options included — falls in the next 12 months. Figures are recomputed when a new USAspending load lands. See our data sources.