Who buys NAICS 511210 (Software Publishers) work, who wins it, and what's open right now — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov solicitations.
Contract data as of Oct 18, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 420 | $844.1M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 572 | $448.6M | -47% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 479 | $948.6M | +111% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 514 | $554.7M | -42% |
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 (DoD is 53% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FRANCISCO PARTNERS MANAGEMENT, L.P. | $1.4B | 48.3% |
| 2 | CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP | $733.9M | 26.2% |
| 3 | WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY HOLDING CO LLC | $228.9M | 8.2% |
| 4 | MINBURN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC | $181.8M | 6.5% |
| 5 | ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. | $41.4M | 1.5% |
| 6 | DH TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $20.6M | 0.7% |
| 7 | LYME COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC. | $19.9M | 0.7% |
| 8 | THE DASTON CORPORATION | $14.7M | 0.5% |
| 9 | FEDITC, LLC | $12.1M | 0.4% |
| 10 | ALVAREZ LLC | $10.5M | 0.4% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once.
| Agency | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $1.5B | 52.7% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $397.2M | 14.2% |
| General Services Administration | $214.6M | 7.7% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $200.4M | 7.2% |
| Social Security Administration | $134.5M | 4.8% |
| Department of the Treasury | $68.0M | 2.4% |
| Department of Agriculture | $58.3M | 2.1% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $42.2M | 1.5% |
| Department of the Interior | $38.3M | 1.4% |
| Department of Justice | $36.1M | 1.3% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $30.7M | 50.3% |
| 8(a) | $0 | 0.0% |
| SDVOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $47K | 0.1% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $30.3M | 49.6% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 2% 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.
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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.