GovCon Intelligence – Contracting has a new-entrant problem. The FAR overhaul made it worse. New entrants have become a barometer for the health of the Federal contracting system. The more new entrants the system sees, the more we can be confident that regulatory barriers, long procurement timelines, and industry consolidation aren’t so powerful as to keep innovators and fast-growing companies out of contracting.
But according to the latest data, fiscal year 2025 was the worst year for attracting new-entrant small businesses to government contracting since 1989.