The Department of Defense's NAICS 517111 (Wired Telecommunications Carriers) market: incumbents, spending trend, set-asides and open solicitations — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov notices.
Contract data as of Oct 30, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 332 | $23.2M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 409 | $22.3M | -4% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 534 | $254.7M | +1043% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 112 | $8.8M | -97% |
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.
The 6 largest incumbents hold 78% of the $63.0M expiring in the next 18 months, across 25 incumbent companies. A few companies hold most of this work.
| # | Incumbent | Expiring | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | COMPUTER WORLD SERVICES | $21.7M | 34.4% |
| 2 | VERIZON MARYLAND LLC | $10.4M | 16.5% |
| 3 | DEUTSCHE TELEKOM BUSINESS SOLUTIONS GMBH | $6.1M | 9.7% |
| 4 | QUALITYNET GENERAL TRADING AND CONTRACTING COMPANY WLL | $5.5M | 8.7% |
| 5 | AT&T INC | $3.4M | 5.3% |
| 6 | WICHITA GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, LLC | $1.9M | 3.0% |
Companies are corporate families (USAspending parent UEI), as in the contractor rankings. Computed Oct 30, 2026 over that day's 18-month window.
| Ends | Contract · incumbent | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2027 | Provides Support Services to Operate and Assure the Availability of the Air Force Information Network (AFIN) to Enable War-Fighter Mission… COMPUTER WORLD SERVICES · FA877326F0053 | $21.7M |
| Mar 31, 2028 | Commercial Circuits Services in Support of U.s. Army Organizations and Customers in the European Theater DEUTSCHE TELEKOM BUSINESS SOLUTIONS GMBH · W564KV23C0005 | $6.1M |
| Dec 28, 2027 | Morale Wifi QUALITYNET GENERAL TRADING AND CONTRACTING COMPANY WLL · FA570323P0009 | $5.5M |
| Dec 31, 2026 | VZNS000018EBM - STM-64 Circuit Between Southwest Asia & Europe VERIZON MARYLAND LLC · HC101925PA054 | $5.2M |
| Jan 31, 2027 | Base Ordering Period VERIZON MARYLAND LLC · N0018926F0079 | $2.5M |
| Sep 30, 2027 | Base Telecommunications System (BTS) Service Option Year Three (3) WICHITA GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, LLC · FA466423P0002 | $1.9M |
| Nov 30, 2026 | The Purpose of This Memorandum Is to Provide Rationale Regarding Modification P00002. Exercise Clins 15-22 for Option Year 1 AT&T INC · N6339425P0005 | $1.6M |
| Sep 30, 2027 | Option Year 3 - Lec Services for NCTS Guam TELEGUAM HOLDINGS, LLC · N6824623P0006 | $1.5M |
| Mar 31, 2027 | Base Telecommunications Systems Maintenance BOWHEAD BASE OPERATIONS LLC · FA448426F0094 | $1.4M |
| Mar 29, 2027 | FY25-FY26-SUPPORT of Telecommunication Support Service Tasking and Telephone Service Moves, Adds, Changes (MACS) in Accordance with (IAW)… SYSTEMS INTEGRATION/MODELING & SIMULATION, INC. · N0016426FC048 | $1.1M |
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Contracts with at least $250K obligated whose final end date — every option exercised — falls in the window, counted from Oct 31, 2026. These are the Recompete Tracker's default filters (18 months, ≥$250K), so the figures match the tracker for NAICS 517111 at Department of Defense. “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 | 317 | 62.5% |
| 2 | 44 | 8.7% |
| 3–5 | 98 | 19.3% |
| 6–10 | 41 | 8.1% |
| 11+ | 7 | 1.4% |
From FPDS fields on contract awards that started in FY2026. Offers received is recorded on 37% of these 1,387 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).
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M. C. DEAN, INC. | $160.9M | 52.1% |
| 2 | SMS DATA PRODUCTS GROUP INC | $49.1M | 15.9% |
| 3 | COMPUTER WORLD SERVICES | $21.7M | 7.0% |
| 4 | GTT GLOBAL TELECOM GOVERNMENT SERVICES, LLC | $8.4M | 2.7% |
| 5 | BT GROUP PLC | $4.8M | 1.6% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once. Track record: fiscal years FY2015–FY2024 in which the company family received prime awards from any agency (USAspending.gov, by UEI; earlier years aren't loaded), and how many of those years Department of Defense was its largest customer by dollars. Awards and obligations in this table are FY2026.
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $51.2M | 49.0% |
| 8(a) | $1.2M | 1.1% |
| SDVOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $52.1M | 49.9% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 34% 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 21. 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.