GWAC · General Services Administration

8(a) STARS III task orders

GSA's IT services GWAC reserved for 8(a) small businesses. Who holds it, who orders from it and for what, from FY2026 USAspending orders.

Contract data as of Oct 18, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly

Obligated · FY2026
$64.9M
Q4 FY2026 vs prior quarter: +69%
New orders · FY2026
22
new awards with a start date in the window
Active orders · FY2026
273
$2.7B obligated on orders running in the window
Holders with active orders
81
holder contracts on the vehicle
Vehicle type
GWAC
Managed by
General Services Administration
Average active order
$9.7M
Holder contracts identified
81
Trend

Quarter over quarter

QuarterAwardsObligatedChange
Q1 FY20263$28.3M—
Q2 FY20268$22.0M-22%
Q3 FY20264$5.4M-75%
Q4 FY20267$9.2M+69%

Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount.

Competition

Top contractors · FY2026

Ranked by obligations on orders running in the window. Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent, so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once.

Where the money goes

Agencies ordering from 8(a) STARS III

AgencyObligatedShare
Department of Health and Human Services$560.5M21.2%
Department of Defense$484.8M18.3%
Department of Homeland Security$339.5M12.8%
Department of the Treasury$273.6M10.3%
General Services Administration$193.0M7.3%
Department of State$173.1M6.5%
Small Business Administration$135.6M5.1%
Department of Commerce$100.1M3.8%
Department of Labor$86.2M3.3%
Department of the Interior$78.1M2.9%
Where the money goes

What 8(a) STARS III buys, by NAICS

Set-asides

Set-aside mix

Set-aside typeObligatedShare
Small business set-aside$00.0%
8(a)$48.9M100.0%
SDVOSB$00.0%
WOSB / EDWOSB$00.0%
HUBZone$00.0%
No set-aside (full & open)$00.0%

Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 75% 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.