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With the help of Bloomberg Government, learn the federal market intel that is shaping government contracting.

Market Intel to Fuel Your Business

Business development teams need to understand the changing federal market and discover additional relevant opportunities to grow their businesses. Bloomberg Government provides the comprehensive and actionable market intelligence to do just that.

1. <a target="_sel" href="#!/page/3" style="color:#7646A6;">Tap Into a Larger Share of the Defense Market</a> 2. <a href="#!/page/4" target="_self" style="color:#7646A6;"> Mission-Critical News & Analysis</a> 3. <a href="#!/page/5" target="_self" style="color:#7646A6;">The Right Mix: Your Tools with BGOV’s Premium Data</a> 4. <a href="#!/page/6" target="_self" style="color:#7646A6;">Uncover the Right Opportunity</a> 5. <a href="#!/page/7" target="_self" style="color:#7646A6;">Explore the Federal Industry Leaders</a>

Tap Into a Larger Share of the Defense Market

With defense contracts representing 63% of total spending and competition tighter than ever, the research, analysis, and tools your company employs are essential to developing a winning strategy. Let Bloomberg Government help you tap into a larger share of the defense market.

Keeping a Pulse on Defense Spending

The Department of Defense’s discretionary budget authority for fiscal year 2022 is $722 billion – an increase of $17 billion from FY21.

Bloomberg Government forecasts that the contract obligations will come in around $535 billion. The Biden Administration has requested $737 billion for DOD in FY23.

While defense contracts are some of the largest in the contracting industry, they're also some of the most difficult to get, making expert intelligence especially critical. From the briefing room to your winning strategy, Bloomberg Government has the unmatched market intelligence and analysis to fill your defense pipeline.

FY 2022 Air Force Budget Briefing

$213 billion is on the line in the Air Force budget request. From operation and maintenance to RDT&E, we’ll show you where the money is going.

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FY 2022 Army Budget Briefing

$173 billion is on the line in the Army budget request. Across IT, manufacturing, cybersecurity, and more, learn where the money is going.

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FY 2022 Navy-Marine Corps Budget Briefing

$212 billion is on the line in the Navy budget request. We'll break down the request and highlight key budget tradeoffs.

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Actionable market intelligence for defense contracts
2021 federal contract spending in five charts
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Mission-Critical News & Analysis

Stay informed and ahead of your competition with actionable federal market and contracting analysis. With Bloomberg Government, you get an extensive news database that includes breaking developments, in-depth analysis, and more.

Actionable Alerts

As a subscriber, you choose how to receive updates on the topics most relevant to your business.

News is only part of the picture. Analysis by Bloomberg's seasoned government contracting experts helps break down complex developments into actionable insights:

Gain upstream insight into your customers, markets, and programs of interest.
Understand the impact of federal policy and initiatives on your bottom line.
Conduct strategic validation and gain access to industry briefs and exclusive events.
Follow funding to ensure that you are best positioned to maximize resources and revenue.

Set alerts for specific topics to be sent weekly, daily, or instantly as news is added from more than 35,000 local, national, and international news sources.

Insights for Everyone on the Team

Need a quick RFP update before a meeting or detailed analysis for a market-sizing exercise? BGOV caters to your workflow, whether your focus is is in sales, strategy, or executive management.

Insights

Get expert insights into what's happening in federal agencies and on Capitol Hill before your competitors.

Our Market Flashes, Opportunity Analysis, and Weekly Columns keep you and your team sharp when meeting with stakeholders and building your pipeline.

Expert Analysis

BGOV analysts have more than 25 years of experience on average.

Our in-house experts provide custom, market-leading examinations of trends and help industry professionals gauge current contract and spending developments to plan an effective strategy.

Profiles

Learn about contracting trends and opportunities on the horizon.

Our Agency, Market, Company, and Contract profiles assist business development professionals in their efforts to discover their addressable market.

The depth and quality of the BGOV analyst briefings is unmatched in the federal contracting marketplace."

Senior Director, Public Sector, Docusign

The Right Mix: Your Tools with BGOV’s Premium Data

Supercharge your organization's own data to develop highly informed insights that direct your strategy.

Gain a Competitive Edge with Customizable Intel

Get the full picture of the federal markets that you care about - without leaving your internal systems.

Bloomberg Government Quality

Data licensing fuses the BGOV data you know with additional datasets not available in our standard business development workflow tools, giving you the ability to make each dataset work for your specific vision.

Rigorously Cleansed Data

Our cleansing process corrects and clarifies dates and values, and adds contract titles and detailed company and agency hierarchies.

Learn how Bloomberg Government's data licensing can help supercharge your insights and strategy.

Full In-House Integration

Blend our robust data with your internal systems. dashboards, CRM, and more for detailed insights to effectively plan your strategy, all without leaving your own system.

Use Bloomberg Government's Contracts Intelligence Tool to effectively size your market and dig into contract specifics.

Contracts Intelligence Tool

Get the industry's most powerful and accurate contracts and market analysis tool.

Want to know all the previous contracts an agency has had in the last five years or whether an agency has been spending more or less? Find out with the Contracts Intelligence Tool.

Analyze 50+ contract characteristics, filtering data by agency, prime vendor, contract amount, contract vehicles, and more.

Size Your Market

Identify procurement trends, analyze competitors, and monitor buying behavior with speed and precision.

Your Data, Your Way

Search historic beta.sam.gov data and create powerful, customized analyses from 50+ contract characteristics and data fields.

Fast, Accurate, Reliable

Using a proprietary multistep data cleaning process, our analysts manually override contract values and dates to account for inaccuracies in reported data.

Bloomberg has been a good tool for us in tracking industry trends and monitoring opportunities within the federal market space."

Derwin Ross, Business Development Executive, TAJ Technologies, Inc.

Uncover the Right Opportunity

Finding the right opportunities within an addressable market is key. Size and scope your addressable market using the Contracts Intelligence Tool to know where agencies need your products and service. Then use Opportunity Search to simply find and exclude keywords in documents attached to solicitation notices to surface only relevant opportunities for your business.

Inside BGOV's Opportunity Search

Access a database of 31 million+ contracts, task orders, and solicitations. Search agency documents across 20+ data fields for enhanced precision.

Seize Opportunity

Experience the market's only keyword search that takes you inside published agency documents. Find essential information and hidden opportunities other solutions miss.

Focus on Real Business

Save time and efficiently allocate resources with built-in logic that ensures you target open opportunities.

Designed for How You Work

Bloomberg Government's proprietary algorithms, customizable interface, and unmatched data accuracy ensure you're finding partners, incumbent vendors, opportunities, and more – all tailored to you and your business.

BGOV has been an absolutely invaluable resource to us as we conduct market research and make decisions on which opportunities to pursue."

Lindsay McDermott, Business Development Manager, Potawatomi Business Development Corporation

Explore the Federal Industry Leaders

Now is the time to build a winning strategy. Our annual BGOV200 Federal Industry Leaders Report ranks the top 200 vendors by value of prime, unclassified contracts awarded by U.S. agencies. It analyzes the top contracts at agencies and departments, and in various purchasing categories, to help you understand the trends influencing the government contracting industry.

Federal Industry Leaders 2020

BGOV200: $682B at Play

Fiscal 2020 marks the fifth straight year of increase in government contract spending – with an increase of $83 billion compared to 2019.

Our rankings reveal the top federal contractors based on data for prime, unclassified contracts awarded across all government agencies within the United States.

Top Defense Contractors

In fiscal 2020, defense contract spending hit a record high of $447 billion – representing nearly two thirds of overall federal contract spending.

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Top Information Technology Contractors

Technology continued to be a massive contributor to federal market growth. It grew by $6.8 billion year over year – the single largest growth year on record.

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