Agencies

Know your buyerbefore the notice posts.

See who buys what you sell. The Buyer Finder ranks the departments, agencies, commands and contracting offices buying under your NAICS and PSC codes, by live USAspending obligations at the department and agency and by open SAM.gov notices below them, and marks each one as an existing customer, adjacent to a customer, or new to you, from your own award history there.

Save the buyers worth pursuing to your Agency Watchlist, open a buyer page to see what it buys against your codes and who wins there, and ask the Agencies Agent to brief a buyer or explain the FAR rules on market research and exchanges with industry, with every buyer, award and rule it names linked to its source.

60

Departments

SAM.GOV BUYING HIERARCHY

146

Agencies

SUB-TIERS UNDER THEM

1,780

Contracting offices

KEYED BY DODAAC

7,650

Open notices

AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 2026

Buyer Finder

Every buyer under your codes, with where you stand

Each row carries the buyer's seal and website, its obligations or open notices, your award history there and a relationship badge. Filter by set-aside, place of performance and fiscal-year window, and narrow to a department or agency to see the commands and offices inside it.

The buying hierarchy

Department, agency, command, office

Every SAM.gov notice names the path that posted it, from the department down to the contracting office. GovConDash folds those paths into one hierarchy, so you can rank buyers at the level you sell to and move up or down from any of them.

01 · Ranked by obligations

Department

The cabinet department or independent agency at the top of the path, such as the Department of War or the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ranked by contract obligations USAspending reports under your codes.

60 departments in the corpus

02 · Ranked by obligations

Agency

The sub-tier that awards the work, such as the Department of the Army or the Defense Logistics Agency. Ranked by obligations, joined to USAspending by its sub-tier inside its own department.

146 agencies in the corpus

03 · Ranked by open notices

Command

The command or bureau between the agency and the office, such as Army Materiel Command. USAspending publishes no obligation total at this level, so commands rank by open notices and say so.

338 commands in the corpus

04 · Ranked by open notices

Office

The contracting office itself, keyed by its six-character DoDAAC, the code every award number it issues begins with. Ranked by open notices, and tied to your awards through that code.

1,780 offices in the corpus

Your award history

Customer, adjacent or new to you

The Buyer Finder reads your own awards from USAspending under your UEI and ties each one to the buyer that made it, by the awarding department, the sub-agency code, and the contracting office code each award number begins with. Every badge states the awards behind it.

Existing customer

You hold an award at this buyer. The row states how many, the dollars obligated, the latest start date, and how many end within 18 months as likely recompetes.

Adjacent

No award of yours here, but awards under the same parent: another office of the agency, or another agency of the department. The warmest new door.

New to you

No award of yours here or under its parent. The row still shows what it buys under your codes, who wins there, and the notices open now.

Fiscal year 2026

The largest federal contract buyers

Contract obligations by awarding department, all codes together, as USAspending.gov reports them. Under your own codes the order changes, which is what the Buyer Finder shows you.
  1. 01

    Department of War

    $395B
  2. 02

    Department of Veterans Affairs

    $84.3B
  3. 03

    Department of Homeland Security

    $73.3B
  4. 04

    Department of Energy

    $55.1B
  5. 05

    General Services Administration

    $28.7B
  6. 06

    Department of Health and Human Services

    $24.9B
  7. 07

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    $16.0B
  8. 08

    Department of Transportation

    $14.1B
  9. 09

    Department of Agriculture

    $10.8B
  10. 10

    Department of Justice

    $10.2B

Source: USAspending.gov, spending by awarding agency, contract award types A to D, fiscal year 2026.

Open right now

Who is posting notices today

The departments and contracting offices with the most open SAM.gov notices across every code, as of November 1, 2026. Sign in to see the same ranking under your own NAICS and PSC codes.

Departments

  1. 01Department of War5,610 open
  2. 02Department of Veterans Affairs604 open
  3. 03Department of the Interior202 open
  4. 04Department of Homeland Security183 open
  5. 05Department of Agriculture167 open
  6. 06Department of Transportation141 open
  7. 07Department of State131 open
  8. 08Department of Health and Human Services122 open
  9. 09General Services Administration103 open
  10. 10Department of Energy99 open

Contracting offices

  1. 01NAVSUP WEAPON SYSTEMS SUPPORT MECHN00104805 open
  2. 02NAVSUP WEAPON SYSTEMS SUPPORTN00383487 open
  3. 03DLA AVIATION AT PHILADELPHIA, PASPRPA1243 open
  4. 04DLA LAND AND MARITIMESPE7M1222 open
  5. 05DLA LAND AND MARITIMESPE7L1161 open
  6. 06DLA AVIATIONSPE4A6154 open
  7. 07DLA AVIATION AT OKLAHOMA CITY, OKSPRTA1147 open
  8. 08DLA AVIATIONSPE4A7146 open
  9. 09SPRMM1 DLA MECHANICSBURGSPRMM1144 open
  10. 10DLA LAND AND MARITIMESPE7LX132 open

Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, active notices whose response date has not passed.

The FAR on finding contractors

The rules the Agencies Agent reads

How a buyer researches the market, talks to industry, publicizes a requirement and decides on a set-aside is written down in the FAR. The Agencies Agent quotes these sections from the eCFR text the platform holds, and nothing from memory.

Market research (FAR part 10)

Exchanges with industry before proposals are received

Publicizing contract actions and synopses

Acquisition planning and its contents

Small business set-aside decisions

Small business specialists and the agency's review

Unsolicited proposals

Fair opportunity and orders under schedules

Only one responsible source

GovConDash

The Agencies tab

One place to work the government side of a capture: who buys, what they buy, where you already stand, and what to do next, beside your opportunities, your teaming partners and the regulations.

Buyer Finder

Departments, agencies, commands and offices ranked under your NAICS and PSC codes, set-aside and place of performance, each tied to your awards there and the notices open now.

Buyer page

Obligations by fiscal year, the NAICS and PSC it buys against yours, who wins there, your award history, its open notices, the offices under it and its Other Transaction agreements.

Agency Watchlist

Each buyer saved with a stage, your notes and follow-up reminders on your calendar, one click from the teaming partners already winning there.

Agencies Agent

Ask which buyers fit you, what a command buys, or how the FAR governs market research and industry days. Every buyer, award and rule it names links to its source.

From the GovConDash blog

The GovConDash blog
Market IntelligenceCommercial Items · Department of War

October 26, 2026

The DoW Guidebook for Acquiring Commercial-First

The Department of War's Guidebook for Acquiring Commercial-First, Version 1.0, makes commercial products and services the default, says a prior commercial determination stands unless the head of the contracting activity reverses it in writing, lists the six things to put in a proposal for a fast commercial item determination under FAR Part 12 and DFARS 212, and sets a 15-day clock. What it means for contractors and nontraditional defense contractors.

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FAQ

Agency research questions

How does GovConDash decide which agencies buy what I sell?

It reads your registered NAICS and PSC codes, or the codes you enter, and asks USAspending.gov which departments and agencies obligated contract dollars under them. Below the agency, where USAspending publishes no total, it counts the open SAM.gov notices each command and contracting office has posted under the same codes.

What does existing customer, adjacent or new to you mean?

Existing customer means you hold an award at that buyer. Adjacent means you hold none there but hold awards under the same parent, another office of the agency or another agency of the department. New to you means neither. Each badge states the awards behind it.

Where do the figures come from?

Obligations are read live from USAspending.gov. The buying hierarchy and the open notices come from the SAM.gov Contract Opportunities data GovConDash refreshes daily. Your own awards come from USAspending under your UEI. A buyer is never matched to dollars by guessing at its name: departments join through a measured map and agencies by their sub-tier code.

What can the Agencies Agent answer?

Questions about the buyers themselves, such as which fit you, what a command buys or who wins at an office, and questions about the FAR rules on how buyers find and choose contractors: market research, exchanges with industry, publicizing, set-aside decisions, unsolicited proposals and order competition. It quotes only the FAR sections the platform holds, and says when a section is outside them.

Is the Agencies tab included in the free plan?

A free account sees the whole ranked buyer list and opens the buyer page of the top 3 buyers. Pro and Max open every buyer page, download the workbook and use the Agencies Agent.

How is this different from searching SAM.gov?

SAM.gov lists notices one at a time. GovConDash rolls them up the hierarchy to the office, command, agency and department that posted them, puts the obligations beside them, and tells you where you already hold awards, so you can work the buyer before its next notice posts.

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