By Kevin Plexico, Senior Vice President of Information Solutions at Deltek
The 2025 federal fiscal year is well underway, and with the new year comes a new slate of federal government contracting opportunities for businesses to target as they look to develop their public sector pipeline.
Deltek recently released the top contract vehicles in four specific sectors that offer government contractors a chance to win more business in 2025 and beyond. The research team behind GovWin IQ, the market leading government marketing intelligence platform, developed a series of webinars and reports on the Top Federal Opportunities for FY 2025. These opportunities serve as a bellwether for the federal contracting market, indicating spending and procurement trends to follow for the next twelve months.
These Top Federal Opportunities on-demand webinars and reports are all publicly available, including:
- Top 20 Unrestricted Federal Opportunities for FY 2025
- Top 10 Federal Set-Aside Opportunities for FY 2025
- Top 10 Professional Services Opportunities for FY 2025
- Top 10 Federal AEC Opportunities for FY 2025
Our reports and webinars explore these four major topics and identify the contracts with the highest ceiling values expected in the coming year. Below is a brief description of those four segments.
Top 20 Unrestricted Federal Opportunities for FY 2025
Unrestricted opportunities are available to the majority of federal contractors, meaning that no matter what services a business provides, there is a good chance one of these contract vehicles will be beneficial to them.
GovWin’s federal market experts Carey Webster and Ashley Sanderson gathered detailed intelligence on the top 20 highest-profile full and open federal procurements expected to be released in FY 2025. The webinar and report each cover contract spending trends that are shaping the marketplace along with insight into the major upcoming contract opportunities.
Some of the top unrestricted opportunities include the General Services Administration’s Alliant 3, Department of Veterans Affairs’ Community Care Network Next Generation (CCN)(NEXT GEN) and NASA’s Solutions for Enterprisewide Procurement VI (SEWP VI).
Top 10 Federal Set-Aside Opportunities for FY 2025
The federal government offers various opportunities to collaborate on set-asides for women-owned, minority-owned, veteran-owned and small businesses, and some of those opportunities can be particularly lucrative. GovWin’s federal market expert Kathleen Sievers provides a detailed review of opportunities set aside exclusively for small businesses and other socioeconomic categories, along with an update on the fiscal year 2025 top small business opportunities, such as which long-awaited solicitations are released, and which ones are brand-new to this year’s list.
Selected top set-aside opportunities this year include the Department of Commerce’s ProTech 2.0 Weather Domain, the State Department’s ACCESS program and the Air Force’s AETC BOS MAC.
Top 10 Professional Services Opportunities for FY 2025
There are a select few professional services opportunities that are expected to have the most impact on the market in FY 2025. Join GovWin’s federal market expert Shadi Shakibai as she provides a detailed assessment of the top 10 professional services opportunities across multiple industry segments. The webinar and report also take a deep dive into key procurement trends and patterns anticipated for the coming year.
Key opportunities for FY 2025 include the Army’s $50 billion MAPS contract, Energy’s $18.1 billion M&O LBNL and Navy’s $12.6 billion CMMARS.
Top 10 Federal AEC Opportunities for FY 2025
GovWin’s federal market expert Rachel Doherty provided a detailed assessment of the top 10 federal architecture, engineering and construction, or AEC, opportunities for the next 12 months. In addition, GovWin’s AEC research examines recent procurement patterns that will aid companies selling to the public sector as they scale their business development efforts in support of the federal government construction requirements
Some of this year’s biggest anticipated AEC projects include the $10 billion Venti MACC for NAVFAC Northwest, the $8 billion NAVFAC Washington Mega MACC and the $4.5 billion State Department IDIQ for Overseas Building Operations and Construction.
Key Takeaways for Government Contractors
Across the four categories of top opportunities, we have identified patterns and key takeaways. One that will be top of mind at the start of the 2025 calendar year is the presidential administration transition, which will be closely watched for its implications on federal budgets, government contracts and compliance requirements.
Additionally, prime contractors are continuing to feel the squeeze of fewer opportunities overall. Despite this, overall contract spending has been trending upward, from approximately $707 billion in FY 2022 to $776 billion in FY 2023. Government revenue is still out there for prepared and savvy prime contractors, and for subcontractors with expertise in their market niche.
Federal government contractors know that Deltek has a long history of providing detailed analysis of these valuable contract opportunities. Our research team has spent countless hours vetting these opportunities to provide the broadest and deepest opportunity research in the government contracting marketplace.
Ready to find the opportunities that are the right fit for your company? Dive further into these top opportunities with GovWin’s on-demand Top Federal Opportunities for FY 2025 research reports.
