Federal construction work is decided three to five years before a solicitation exists. We track it from the budget line forward — MILCON, VA and GSA PBS.
Free, every Monday at 6:30 Eastern. Every figure links to its source document.
The federal construction market, countedFPDS via USASpending.gov and GSA IOLP · extracted 12 September 2026
589
Active multiple-award construction and A/E vehicles
490
Department of War — USACE, NAVFAC, AFCEC
51
GSA Public Buildings Service
48
Department of Veterans Affairs
235
Reach end of ordering period in 2027 or 2028
131
Recompeting in calendar 2027 — DoW 91, PBS 28, VA 12
104
Recompeting in calendar 2028 — DoW 92, VA 9, PBS 3
3,910
Contractor seats held across all vehicles
Of 2,130 firms holding seats, only 10 hold them at DoD, VA and GSA simultaneously. 45% of firms that cross agency lines are service-disabled veteran-owned, against 15% of those that don't.
2,694
Task orders issued in FY2026 across these vehicles
$4.71B
Obligated in FY2026
$298k
Median task order value
$1.75M
Average task order value
$651.8M
Largest single order of FY2026 — electrical distribution replacement at Yigo, Guam, under the NAVFAC Pacific F&I MACC
24
Orders above $25M — 0.9% of orders, 37% of the dollars
$281M
Obligated under SDVOSB set-asides in FY2026
Average order value by agency: DoW $2.68M · VA $872k · PBS $644k. Half of all FY2026 orders were under $300,000.
7,395
Active GSA leases in the national inventory
244.6M
Rentable square feet under lease
12.1M
Square feet currently vacant
11,500
Median lease size, square feet
1,626
Leases expiring in 2027 or 2028
2,080
Inside the 12–48 month engagement window, 68.1M SF
1,840
Distinct lessors of record behind those leases
467
Already expired or in holdover
On a succeeding lease the building owner prepares the offer and buys the tenant improvement work — not GSA. That decision is made roughly 24 months before expiration. 799 leases are already inside that window today.
1
RQ Construction, LLC
43 orders
$1.65B
2
Weston Solutions Inc
24 orders
$1.60B
3
Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
40 orders
$1.36B
4
Harper Construction Company, Inc.
18 orders
$900.9M
5
Black Construction–Tutor Perini JV
7 orders
$882.6M
6
Sauer Construction, LLC
23 orders
$649.4M
7
Clark Construction Group — California, LP
6 orders
$532.0M
8
Granite-Obayashi 2, a Joint Venture
5 orders
$478.2M
9
StructSure Projects Inc
20 orders
$459.9M
10
Hensel Phelps Construction Co
16 orders
$427.2M
Ranked by obligations on active multiple-award construction and A/E vehicles at DoD, VA and GSA PBS. Ten firms out of 2,130.
Vehicle-by-vehicle recompete dates, awardee rosters, lessors of record and engagement windows are in the data store.See what's inside →
$92.4B
Programmed and planned construction tracked
589
Active multiple-award vehicles, with recompete dates
8,405
Federal leases monitored for refresh timing
36–60
Months of lead time before a solicitation posts
This week's issue
No. 31 · Week of 14 September 2026
Closing
14 solicitations close between Tue 15 and Mon 21
Courthouse envelope repairs, Tyler TX · Barracks renovation, Fort Campbell KY · Clinic addition, Loma Linda CA — and 11 more, each with its SAM link.
SAM.gov re-checked before send
Award
$651.8M — Electrical distribution replacement, Yigo, Guam
Black Construction–Tutor Perini JV · NAVFAC Pacific F&I MACC · largest single order of FY2026
FPDS · USASpending
Coming
GSA National Large Construction IDIQ — draft RFP posted
$10B ceiling, 40–50 awards, three tiers. First movement since the April RFI. Comments due 2 Oct.
SAM.gov notice
The read
Guam is quietly eating the Pacific construction budget
Fourteen deadlines between 15 and 21 September, the draft RFP on GSA's National Large Construction IDIQ, and why three of the ten largest orders this fiscal year all landed on Guam.
Every GSA lease in the engagement window, scored on refresh potential, with the lessor of record named and sorted by when to make contact. On a succeeding lease the building owner prepares the offer and buys the tenant improvement work — not GSA.
Every active multiple-award construction and A/E vehicle across DoD, VA and GSA PBS, with who holds each seat, what has been ordered under it, and when it recompetes.
Every project in VA’s long-range capital plan that was not proposed for funding in the FY2027 budget. VA requested four new major construction projects for FY2027. The volume is here.
Every capital investment and leasing prospectus GSA sent to Congress for FY2026 and FY2027, parsed from the source PDFs, with the full cost breakdown and the occupying agencies named by GSA itself.
The criteria, rules and primary sources a federal construction submittal is actually judged against — UFC and UFGS, GSA P-100, VA PG-18, FAR Part 36 and the agency supplements, and where each project is announced. Free, no signup.
What is machine-assembled, what a human verifies before anything sends, what we withhold and why, and how a correction runs. Every factual claim links to a primary source document.