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

Powered by The American Small Business Chamber of Commerce. [Governance and contributor statement to be finalized: stewardship, the data layers contributed by partner organizations, and every interest disclosed plainly. Independence is maintained through reproducibility — the methods are public, so the findings do not depend on trusting the producer.]

What this is not

An independent, privately produced resource. Not a U.S. government website. The Index takes no funding from contractors ranked or measured by its data. It is built to permit unflattering findings; that openness is what makes its findings credible.

Contact

[Contact address] · Corrections and data questions welcome — see the corrections policy in the methodology.