u/Character_Project715

I'm a fed 1102, so I genuinely wonder about this.

Most of federal contracting doesn't touch sam.gov. If you only use sam.gov, you don't know what's going on, right? So how do you know what's going on? That's the question.

Context: In my department - HHS - sam.gov is involved for relatively few new contracts/orders - somewhere between <10% and (at a theoretical maximum) 40%.

For IT, an actual solicitation was posted to sam.gov for at most 5% of new IT awards - but the real number is probably a rounding error away from zero. This makes sense - the vast majority of IT is available from the many existing sources (GSA alone has so many).

Every force is pushing us to use open market only as a last resort. So less will show up there. So how do you all deal with this?

HHS lost 40% of its 1102s between November 2024 and February 2026. HHS was the hardest hit, by far, of anywhere in the federal government when it comes to acquisition loses.

How is it going HHS 1102s?

	Nov-24	Feb-26
ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES	90	2
ADMINISTRATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING	1	0
ADMINISTRATION FOR STRATEGIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE	104	52
AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY	16	0
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION	160	65
CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES	173	121
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION	91	79
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION	42	19
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE	151	141
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH	511	223
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL	2	1
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES	114	182
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION	15	0
HHS Total	1470	885

All this data is public and available at https://data.opm.gov/explore-data/data/data-downloads