How the federal procurement market actually behaves.
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.
Standards
Define a measure.No standards published yet.
Research
Interpret several standards.The Competition Gap
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 Mindy Procurement Intelligence Report — 2026
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.
Research agenda
Concepts we’re working toward — each waiting on a standard.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 →