Grounded research on the public procurement market — who buys, how competition really works, and where small business has room to win. Every figure is derived from live federal data, not estimated.
Our work is built in layers. Standards define a measure; Benchmarks apply one to the real market; Research interprets several to make an argument. Research sits on top of standards — so every finding traces back to a measure we can defend.
No standards published yet.
The thesis that under-served federal markets are under-COMPETED, not under-supplied — using participation, attention concentration, and (once mature) competition depth to show where more outreach would most improve price and small-business access.
The Institute's flagship annual: how the public procurement market actually behaves — supply-side participation + the behavioral moat (return, attention, discovery, decision time) no public source can produce.
These are research concepts, not publications. Each states a claim we believe the evidence will support and names the Observatory standard it depends on. When that standard reaches publication maturity, the concept graduates into a publication above. See why some research isn’t published yet →