Government contracts for it & software services

Government contracts for it & software services span every level of public buying, from federal task orders down to county and municipal awards. At the federal level the work is concentrated under NAICS 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services), with related work under 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services), and the most active customers are civilian agencies buying through GSA's Multiple Award Schedule, DoD components, and the VA. The same buyer mix repeats year after year, which makes IT and software vendors a relatively predictable category to bid into once you know where the recurring spend lives.

Across the federal, state, and local sources ContractRadar tracks, there are 204 open it & software services contracts currently posting across 37 states, with 168 added in the last 30 days. That's a steady national cadence — enough flow that automated alerting outperforms manual portal-checking even if you only chase work in two or three states. Nationally, the most active buyers of this work are State Board of Elections (7 open posts) and North Dakota (6); the remainder splits across federal civilian agencies, DoD components, and state and local departments.

Federal IT is one of the heaviest users of 8(a), HUBZone, and SDVOSB set-asides, and many state and local IT solicitations are sized specifically for regional firms rather than national integrators. Beyond federal posts, every state runs its own procurement program with separate registration, certification, and bid-board rules — ContractRadar pulls SAM.gov together with state and local feeds so an IT and software vendor can monitor every market from one inbox instead of logging into a dozen portals each morning. Drill into any state below to see the open it & software services contracts, top buyers, and posting cadence in that specific market.