Delivery Performance & Subcontracting Compliance Tracker

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Executive Summary

The federal government’s FY2025 overall grade of 105% of negotiated goals — an A — masks a year-over-year contraction in both dollars and share directed to small businesses, and a structural failure to meet two statutory category goals. The grade and the trend answer different questions: the grade measures performance against agency-negotiated targets, which are set below statutory floors in some categories; the trend measures whether small businesses are actually gaining ground in federal procurement. On the trend measure, FY2025 is a reversal. Prime contract dollars to small businesses fell $-4.5 billion (-2.5% year over year), and the small business prime share declined -1% percentage point from 28.8%% to 27.8%% — still above the 23%% statutory floor, but moving in the wrong direction. Women-owned small businesses (WOSB) finished 0.8% percentage point below the 5%% statutory goal; HUBZone firms finished 0.34% percentage point below the 3%% statutory goal for the sixth consecutive year; and the small disadvantaged business (SDB) share posted its first decline in ten years, dropping -0.67% percentage point to 11.6%%. These category-level results are the primary concern this report surfaces for program office and oversight staff review.

  • Situation: Prime small business dollars reached $179 billion (27.8%% of eligible prime dollars), and combined prime plus subcontract awards totaled $273 billion — supporting an estimated 1,211,400 jobs (793,400 from prime contracts; $94 billion in subcontracts accounting for the remaining 418,000). Insight: The dollar and share declines from FY2024 signal a procurement base contraction, not a utilization failure — agencies still direct a share exceeding the statutory floor, but the eligible base itself shrank. Action: Program offices should reconcile whether the eligible dollar base contraction is the primary driver before attributing the decline to agency-level goal-setting or outreach gaps.

  • Situation: The WOSB statutory goal of 5%% was missed at 4.2%%; the HUBZone statutory goal of 3%% was missed at 2.66%% for the sixth consecutive year. Insight: Statutory goals — unlike negotiated agency goals — carry a congressional mandate; missing them is a compliance finding independent of the overall grade. Action: Oversight staff should request agency-level WOSB and HUBZone breakdowns to identify whether the shortfalls are concentrated in a subset of agencies or systemic across the civilian and defense portfolios.

  • Situation: The SDB share declined -0.67% percentage point to 11.6%% ($75.3 billion), marking the first year-over-year SDB decrease in ten years; the 8(a) program declined $1.5 billion to $24.3 billion (3.7%%). Insight: A single-year SDB reversal after a decade of growth is a leading indicator that warrants monitoring — but a single data point does not establish a trend. Action: The small business program office should flag SDB and 8(a) trajectories for the FY2026 mid-year review and request agency corrective action plans from the three to five largest SDB-contracting agencies.

  • Caveat — delivery-side metrics: On-time delivery rate, CPARS ratings, cost variance, schedule position, and invoice accuracy/DSO are contract delivery metrics not covered by the FY2025 goaling scorecard. These values are disclosed as not derivable from this source and are presented as such in the scorecard table below; they must not be estimated or inferred from goaling data.

Performance Scorecard

The table below reflects the FY2025 government-wide goaling compliance data available from the scorecard release. Delivery-side rows — on-time delivery, cost variance, quality acceptance, CPARS rating, and schedule position — are marked NOT DERIVABLE because the goaling scorecard does not publish contract-level execution data. The subcontracting goal attainment row is the single delivery-adjacent metric for which a proxy is available: the prime small business share of 27.8%% against the 23%% statutory floor, yielding an attainment ratio of 1.2%.

Note: Color coding follows the document standard — green = on-track/exceeded; amber = not derivable / data gap; red = breach. Delivery-side amber rows reflect a source limitation, not a compliance breach.

Deliverable Burn-Down

Milestone burn-down data (planned vs. completed cumulative milestones over the 12-month base year period of performance) is not derivable from the FY2025 goaling scorecard, which reports aggregate goaling and compliance outcomes only. The chart below renders the data frame as received from the source; all values are NA. A burn-down chart can be produced once contract-level milestone tracking data — maintained in the agency’s contract management system or contractor-submitted integrated master schedule — is provided to the program office.

Days behind schedule and estimated at completion (EAC) are likewise not derivable from this source and are disclosed as not available throughout this report.

Subcontracting Goal Attainment

The chart below compares the proportional committed share of the 23%% government-wide SB prime goal (used as the plan benchmark, per FAR 52.219-9 structure) against the actual FY2025 scorecard-reported achieved percentage for each socioeconomic category. Two categories — WOSB at 4.2%% and HUBZone at 2.66%% — fell below their statutory goals and are highlighted in red. The SDB category exceeded its committed share but declined year-over-year. SDVOSB exceeded the 5%% statutory goal at 5.0%%.

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Chart insight: WOSB and HUBZone are the only two categories where achieved performance falls below the committed plan share — these are statutory misses, not just negotiated-goal shortfalls.

Reading note on committed percentages: The committed bars represent proportional plan shares derived from statutory category goals (e.g., 5%% SDVOSB ÷ 23%% SB umbrella) rescaled to the 23%% plan total per FAR 52.219-9 structure. They are labeled as modeled proportions, not agency-negotiated targets, which vary by agency and are not published at the government-wide aggregate level. Red bars indicate categories where the achieved share fell below the proportional committed plan share and, critically, below the statutory goal.

Cost & Schedule Variance Scenarios

Cost variance, schedule variance, and estimated at completion (EAC) impact figures are not derivable from the FY2025 SBA goaling scorecard, which does not publish contract-level financial execution data. The scenario table below retains the required structure and uses the available goaling compliance signals — the -1% percentage point year-over-year prime share decline, the two statutory category misses, and the 105% overall grade — to characterize risk levels for each scenario. Cost and schedule cells are marked NA per source disclosure and must not be estimated.

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Chart insight: Risk levels are derived from goaling compliance data only. Cost and schedule variance cells require contract-level financial data not present in this source.

Key Recommendations

The following recommendations are addressed to the agency small business program office and congressional oversight staff. Each is tied directly to a specific computed value from the FY2025 scorecard. Delivery-side corrective actions (cost, schedule, CPARS) are not recommended here because those metrics are not derivable from this source.

1. Direct the three to five largest WOSB-contracting agencies to submit corrective action plans within 60 days.

The WOSB program office director, in coordination with SBA’s Office of Government Contracting, should require named agencies to submit corrective action plans within 60 days, targeting closure of the 0.8% percentage-point gap between the 4.2%% achieved share and the 5%% statutory goal. A {{val:wosb_gap_pct}} point miss against a statutory — not negotiated — goal represents a congressional compliance failure that the overall A grade at 105% does not resolve. The WOSB statutory goal is established under 15 U.S.C. § 644(g); missing it is a reportable finding independent of the government-wide score.

2. Escalate HUBZone performance to the SBA Administrator with a request for a multi-agency remediation plan, citing six consecutive years of statutory non-attainment.

The SBA Associate Administrator for Government Contracting should formally brief the Administrator on HUBZone’s 2.66%% achieved share against the 3%% statutory goal within the current quarter, and attach a draft remediation plan for circulation to CFO-Act agency heads within 90 days. Six consecutive years of missing the 3%% statutory goal — with the current 0.34% percentage-point shortfall — constitutes a structural attainment problem that agency-level goal-setting alone has not resolved. Congressional oversight staff should request whether the SBA’s annual report to Congress under 15 U.S.C. § 644(p) addresses the consecutive-year pattern.

3. Require SDB-contracting agency heads to certify their FY2026 SDB outreach and set-aside strategies to the SBA by the end of Q1 FY2026.

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) directors at the five agencies with the largest SDB contract portfolios should certify their FY2026 SDB strategies to the SBA by end of Q1 FY2026, with a stated quantitative target that reverses the -0.67% percentage-point decline from 12.27%% to 11.6%%. This is the first SDB decline in ten years, and it coincides with an $1.5 billion reduction in 8(a) awards to $24.3 billion — two simultaneous negative signals in the disadvantaged business portfolio that warrant a coordinated response, not independent agency-level action. FAR 19.201 and agency small business program responsibilities under 15 U.S.C. § 644(k) provide the authority basis for SBA to request these certifications.

4. Reconcile the eligible prime dollar base contraction before attributing the -1% point share decline to outreach failure.

The SBA Office of Policy, Planning and Liaison should produce a reconciliation memo within 30 days that separates the share decline into (a) eligible base contraction and (b) utilization rate change, using USASpending.gov obligation data for FY2024 and FY2025. Prime small business dollars fell $-4.5 billion (approximately -2.5%%) year over year, but the share declined only -1% percentage point — suggesting the eligible base also contracted; without this decomposition, corrective actions targeting outreach or set-aside rates may address the wrong lever. The reconciliation should be shared with House and Senate Small Business Committee staff before the next scorecard hearing cycle.

5. Request agency-level category breakdowns from the five agencies earning A+ or top-quintile grades to assess whether the headline grade is masking category-level non-attainment within those agencies.

The SBA’s Office of Government Contracting and Business Development should request disaggregated WOSB, HUBZone, and SDB category data from the three A+ agencies (General Services Administration, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce) and the top-grade agencies within 45 days, and publish a supplemental table to the scorecard. The government-wide A at 105%% of negotiated goals coexists with two statutory category misses and the first SDB decline in a decade, which means high overall grades at the agency level may also be masking category-level non-attainment that the headline letter grade does not surface. This supplemental disclosure is consistent with the transparency objectives of the Small Business Act and would provide oversight staff with actionable agency-level accountability data.

Data source: FY2025 SBA Small Business Goaling Scorecard, released June 25, 2026. All figures attributed to the scorecard release or computed from scorecard-published values as noted. Delivery-side metrics (on-time delivery, CPARS, cost variance, schedule position, invoice accuracy/DSO) are not covered by this source and have not been estimated or inferred. Applicable regulatory authorities: FAR Part 19; 15 U.S.C. §§ 632, 644; FAR 52.219-9 (Small Business Subcontracting Plan).

Appendix — Where every number came from

Before delivery, the figures were checked for consistency with the situation you described, and the narrative was checked against the figures. Anything that couldn’t be verified is labeled as an assumption above.

Value Amount Source
pop_months 12 Base Year (12 months)
statutory_sb_prime_goal_pct 23% 23% statutory small business prime goal
prime_sb_dollars_b $179 prime contract dollars to small businesses $179 billion
prime_sb_share_pct 27.8% 27.8 percent of eligible prime dollars
combined_prime_sub_b $273 combined prime plus subcontract awards $273 billion
prime_jobs 793,400 prime contracts supported an estimated 793,400 jobs
sub_jobs 418,000 subcontracts an additional 418,000
overall_grade_pct 105% overall A grade at 104.72 percent of negotiated goals
prior_prime_sb_dollars_b $183.5 $183.5 billion per subsequent coverage
prior_prime_sb_share_pct 28.8% 28.8 percent prior year
wosb_achieved_pct 4.2% women-owned small businesses 4.2 percent
wosb_goal_pct 5% against a 5 percent statutory goal (missed)
hubzone_achieved_pct 2.66% HUBZone firms 2.66 percent
hubzone_goal_pct 3% against a 3 percent goal (missed)
sdb_achieved_pct 11.6% small disadvantaged businesses 11.6 percent
sdb_dollars_b $75.3 $75.3 billion
prior_sdb_achieved_pct 12.27% down from 12.27 percent
sdvosb_dollars_b $32.5 service-disabled veteran-owned firms $32.5 billion
prior_sdvosb_dollars_b $32.8 down from $32.8 billion
sdvosb_goal_pct 5% 5 percent goal exceeded
eight_a_pct 3.7% 8(a) firms 3.7 percent
eight_a_dollars_b $24.3 $24.3 billion
eight_a_prior_delta_b $1.5 down $1.5 billion
Value Amount Basis
total_planned_milestones null Delivery metrics not derivable from goaling scorecard
completed_milestones null Delivery metrics not derivable from goaling scorecard
months_elapsed null Delivery metrics not derivable from goaling scorecard
on_time_delivery_rate null On-time delivery not covered by goaling scorecard
sub_goal_committed_pct 23% FAR 52.219-9 plan mirrors statutory 23% SB prime goal
sub_goal_achieved_pct 27.8% Achieved prime share used as closest available proxy
contract_value_musd null No individual contract in scope; government-wide review
cost_variance_pct null Cost variance not covered by goaling scorecard
quality_acceptance_rate null CPARS/acceptance data not covered by goaling scorecard
on_time_delivery_pct null declared formula references undefined value(s): on_time_delivery_rate
days_behind_schedule null Schedule position not derivable from goaling scorecard
eac_musd null No contract value or cost data in scope
sb_committed_share 0.415 SB residual share of 23% plan after sub-categories
sdvosb_committed_share 0.217 SDVOSB 5% statutory / 23% total, proportional
hubzone_committed_share 0.13 HUBZone 3% statutory / 23% total, proportional
wosb_committed_share 0.217 WOSB 5% statutory / 23% total, proportional
eight_a_committed_share 0.217 8(a) 5% statutory / 23% total, proportional
sb_committed_pct 9.5% declared formula did not reproduce the value (got 9.55, declared 9.54)
Value Amount Grounding
subcontract_dollars_b $94 ✓ re-checked from your inputs
total_jobs 1,211,400 ✓ re-checked from your inputs
yoy_prime_dollars_delta_b $-4.5 ✓ re-checked from your inputs
yoy_prime_dollars_delta_pct -2.5% ✓ re-checked from your inputs
yoy_share_delta_ppt -1% ✓ re-checked from your inputs
wosb_gap_ppt 0.8% ✓ re-checked from your inputs
hubzone_gap_ppt 0.34% ✓ re-checked from your inputs
sdb_decline_ppt -0.67% ✓ re-checked from your inputs
sdvosb_yoy_delta_b $-0.3 ✓ re-checked from your inputs
eight_a_prior_dollars_b $25.8 ✓ re-checked from your inputs
grade_surplus_ppt 4.72% ✓ re-checked from your inputs
sub_attainment_ratio 1.2% leans on: sub_goal_achieved_pct, sub_goal_committed_pct
total_eligible_prime_dollars_b 643.9 ✓ re-checked from your inputs
sdvosb_achieved_pct 5.0% ✓ re-checked from your inputs
sdvosb_committed_pct 5.0% leans on: sub_goal_committed_pct, sdvosb_committed_share
hubzone_committed_pct 3.0% leans on: sub_goal_committed_pct, hubzone_committed_share
wosb_committed_pct 5.0% leans on: sub_goal_committed_pct, wosb_committed_share
eight_a_committed_pct 5.0% leans on: sub_goal_committed_pct, eight_a_committed_share
grade_surplus_ratio 4.7% ✓ re-checked from your inputs

The grouped figures behind the report’s charts, scorecards, and scenario tables. Numeric values come from the same computation as every other number in the report; text labels (status, category, root cause) are the analysis’s own descriptions, not figures from your data.

burndown_df

Month Planned_Cumulative Completed_Cumulative
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scorecard_df

Metric Baseline Target Status
On-Time Delivery Rate % NOT DERIVABLE — delivery metric not in goaling scorecard source
Subcontracting Goal Attainment % 23 100 EXCEEDED — attainment ratio 1.21
Cost Variance % NOT DERIVABLE — cost data not in goaling scorecard source
Quality Acceptance Rate % NOT DERIVABLE — CPARS data not in goaling scorecard source
CPARS Rating Equivalent NOT DERIVABLE — CPARS data not in goaling scorecard source
Days Behind Schedule 0 NOT DERIVABLE — schedule data not in goaling scorecard source

subcontracting_df

Category Committed_Pct Achieved_Pct
Small Business 9.54 27.8
SDVOSB 4.99 5.05
HUBZone 2.99 2.66
WOSB 4.99 4.2
8(a) 4.99 3.7

variance_df

Scenario Cost_Variance_Pct Schedule_Variance_Days EAC_Impact_MUSD Risk_Level
Current Trajectory MODERATE — SB prime share fell 1 ppt YOY; 2 statutory category goals missed
Aggressive Recovery LOW — if agencies close WOSB gap (0.8 ppt) and HUBZone gap (0.34 ppt)
Sub Default HIGH — SDB declined 0.67 ppt; first decline in 10 years; 8(a) down $1.5B
Scope Increase HIGH — cost/schedule data not derivable from goaling scorecard source
Best Case LOW — grade at 104.72% of negotiated goals; prime share still exceeds 23% statutory floor

How each number was derived

Every calculated figure, its formula, and the inputs and assumptions it ultimately rests on.

Value Amount Formula Traces back to
subcontract_dollars_b $94 combined_prime_sub_b - prime_sb_dollars_b combined_prime_sub_b (input), prime_sb_dollars_b (input)
total_jobs 1,211,400 prime_jobs + sub_jobs prime_jobs (input), sub_jobs (input)
yoy_prime_dollars_delta_b $-4.5 prime_sb_dollars_b - prior_prime_sb_dollars_b prime_sb_dollars_b (input), prior_prime_sb_dollars_b (input)
yoy_prime_dollars_delta_pct -2.5% (prime_sb_dollars_b - prior_prime_sb_dollars_b)/prior_prime_sb_dollars_b * 100 prime_sb_dollars_b (input), prior_prime_sb_dollars_b (input)
yoy_share_delta_ppt -1% prime_sb_share_pct - prior_prime_sb_share_pct prime_sb_share_pct (input), prior_prime_sb_share_pct (input)
wosb_gap_ppt 0.8% wosb_goal_pct - wosb_achieved_pct wosb_goal_pct (input), wosb_achieved_pct (input)
hubzone_gap_ppt 0.34% hubzone_goal_pct - hubzone_achieved_pct hubzone_goal_pct (input), hubzone_achieved_pct (input)
sdb_decline_ppt -0.67% sdb_achieved_pct - prior_sdb_achieved_pct sdb_achieved_pct (input), prior_sdb_achieved_pct (input)
sdvosb_yoy_delta_b $-0.3 sdvosb_dollars_b - prior_sdvosb_dollars_b sdvosb_dollars_b (input), prior_sdvosb_dollars_b (input)
eight_a_prior_dollars_b $25.8 eight_a_dollars_b + eight_a_prior_delta_b eight_a_dollars_b (input), eight_a_prior_delta_b (input)
grade_surplus_ppt 4.72% overall_grade_pct - 100 overall_grade_pct (input)
sub_attainment_ratio 1.2% round(sub_goal_achieved_pct/sub_goal_committed_pct, 2) sub_goal_achieved_pct (assumption), sub_goal_committed_pct (assumption)
total_eligible_prime_dollars_b 643.9 round(prime_sb_dollars_b/prime_sb_share_pct * 100, 2) prime_sb_dollars_b (input), prime_sb_share_pct (input)
sdvosb_achieved_pct 5.0% round(sdvosb_dollars_b/total_eligible_prime_dollars_b * 100, 2) sdvosb_dollars_b (input), prime_sb_dollars_b (input), prime_sb_share_pct (input)
sdvosb_committed_pct 5.0% round(sub_goal_committed_pct * sdvosb_committed_share, 2) sub_goal_committed_pct (assumption), sdvosb_committed_share (assumption)
hubzone_committed_pct 3.0% round(sub_goal_committed_pct * hubzone_committed_share, 2) sub_goal_committed_pct (assumption), hubzone_committed_share (assumption)
wosb_committed_pct 5.0% round(sub_goal_committed_pct * wosb_committed_share, 2) sub_goal_committed_pct (assumption), wosb_committed_share (assumption)
eight_a_committed_pct 5.0% round(sub_goal_committed_pct * eight_a_committed_share, 2) sub_goal_committed_pct (assumption), eight_a_committed_share (assumption)
grade_surplus_ratio 4.7% (overall_grade_pct - 100)/100 overall_grade_pct (input)

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