The Department of Defense's NAICS 513210 (Software Publishers) market: incumbents, spending trend, set-asides and open solicitations — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov notices.
Contract data as of Oct 18, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 169 | $40.4M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 215 | $312.2M | +673% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 127 | $86.0M | -72% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 52 | $28.8M | -67% |
Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount. The Department of Defense publishes contract awards to USAspending with a 90-day delay, so Q4 FY2026 is still missing most DoD awards — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP | $138.5M | 29.6% |
| 2 | COMPUTABLE INSIGHTS LLC | $96.0M | 20.5% |
| 3 | COPPER RIVER DATA SOLUTIONS, LLC | $51.7M | 11.1% |
| 4 | FRANCISCO PARTNERS MANAGEMENT, L.P. | $21.8M | 4.7% |
| 5 | APPIAN CORPORATION | $12.9M | 2.8% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once.
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $12.0M | 9.1% |
| 8(a) | $1.5M | 1.2% |
| SDVOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| HUBZone | $227K | 0.2% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $117.4M | 89.5% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 28% of this market's dollars. Most USAspending bulk-archive records leave the field blank, so blank awards are excluded rather than counted as full & open.
Showing the 10 most recently posted of 16. Links open the notice on SAM.gov.
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.