Who buys NAICS 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services) 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 | 84 | $38.4M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 199 | $249.2M | +549% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 229 | $52.1M | -79% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 613 | $262.1M | +403% |
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 22% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP | $82.4M | 13.7% |
| 2 | UNWIN CO | $37.4M | 6.2% |
| 3 | KELLY SERVICES, INC. | $35.7M | 5.9% |
| 4 | HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE, INC. | $32.9M | 5.5% |
| 5 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP | $24.8M | 4.1% |
| 6 | ESSEX MANAGEMENT LLC | $24.6M | 4.1% |
| 7 | V2X AEROSPACE LLC | $20.1M | 3.3% |
| 8 | PUNDIR GROUP, INC | $20.0M | 3.3% |
| 9 | XWELL INC. | $18.1M | 3.0% |
| 10 | DECK PRISM LLC | $16.1M | 2.7% |
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 Health and Human Services | $173.3M | 28.8% |
| Department of Defense | $134.8M | 22.4% |
| Department of Energy | $58.3M | 9.7% |
| Department of the Interior | $52.3M | 8.7% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $36.1M | 6.0% |
| General Services Administration | $35.3M | 5.9% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $23.1M | 3.8% |
| Department of Commerce | $20.9M | 3.5% |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $16.6M | 2.8% |
| Department of Transportation | $11.6M | 1.9% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $32.9M | 15.3% |
| 8(a) | $5.8M | 2.7% |
| SDVOSB | $6.5M | 3.0% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $1.2M | 0.6% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| Other (Indian economic enterprise, veteran, …) | $1.6M | 0.7% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $167.3M | 77.7% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 36% 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.