{"studyTitle":"2026 Federal Small-Business / Set-Aside Benchmark","publisher":"RFPCapture","publicationDate":"2026-09-04","lastUpdated":"2026-09-04","canonicalUrl":"https://www.rfpcapture.com/research/2026-federal-set-aside-benchmark","canonicalPath":"/research/2026-federal-set-aside-benchmark","recommendedCitation":"RFPCapture. 2026 Federal Small-Business / Set-Aside Benchmark. September 4, 2026. Retrieved from https://www.rfpcapture.com/research/2026-federal-set-aside-benchmark.","datasetSize":"71,161 dated notices after excluding 3,094 without authoritative posted date.","datasetStatement":"Program-family rollups are RFPCapture-derived from public set_aside strings. Not official SBA or SAM.gov statistics.","methodologyUrl":"https://www.rfpcapture.com/research/2026-federal-set-aside-benchmark#methodology","shortSummary":"Among 71,161 dated catalog notices, 44,283 (62.2%) carried a set-aside designation, 6,746 (9.5%) were unrestricted / no set-aside used, and 20,132 (28.3%) had a blank/unspecified set-aside field. Dataset: 71,161 dated notices after excluding 3,094 without authoritative posted date.. Publisher: RFPCapture. 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