About the Index

Measured. Reconciled. Public. The Federal Marketplace Index^™ exists because the public record of the federal marketplace is getting harder to see — and a constructed marketplace is kept honest by measurement.

What this is

An independent, continuously maintained set of measures of the federal contracting marketplace, focused on small-business participation: where the dollars flow, what the protections actually reach, who is entering and who is leaving, and how concentrated the supplier base is becoming. Updated quarterly, with every figure reproducible from public data.

Who produces it

The Federal Marketplace Index™ is produced by The American Small Business Chamber of Commerce™, a member-funded organization (dues, events, and capped sponsorships) whose members range from small businesses — the large majority — to nonprofits, prime contractors, and government representatives. Sponsorships are held to modest thresholds so no single funder gains undue influence, and the Chamber takes no money from political activist organizations. The Index's independence rests on reproducibility: anyone can rebuild every figure from public data with the published code.

What this is not

An independent, privately produced resource. Not a U.S. government website. The Index takes no position favoring any program, category, channel, or firm, and it is built to permit unflattering findings — that openness, and the fact that every figure can be independently rebuilt from public data, is what makes its findings credible regardless of who funds the Chamber.

Contact

contact@federalmarketplaceindex.org · Corrections and data questions welcome — see the corrections policy in the methodology.