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Specialty Trades contracts, mapped to your state.

Open, biddable federal Specialty Trades contracts (NAICS 238990) — see how many are open in your state right now.

51 open right now · 92.2% reserved for small businesses

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Where the work is

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3 AZ 1 FL ★ 1 GA 1 MA 1 NC 2 ND 1 PA 4 TX ★ 1 CT 1 WV 1 IL 4 NM ★ 1 AR 3 CA ★ 1 KY 1 MD 1 MS 2 NY 3 OH 1 OR 1 TN 7 VA ★ 2 WA 1 WI 1 NE 1 SC 3 NV

★ Special Set-Asides — these contracts are reserved for businesses holding a specific certification, such as veteran-owned, woman-owned, 8(a), or HUBZone.

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What happened to last year’s work

According to the government’s own published award records, agencies awarded 1,802 contracts in this trade in the 2025 federal budget year. Here is what happened to them.

  • 678Open to anyone qualified. You could have bid on these.
  • 493 Only for companies that already hold a long-term contract with that agency. Still competed — but only among the companies that won that contract earlier.
  • 631Never opened to bidding. Awarded directly, with no bid to win.

A sample of what's open

VA ~ Estimated Due in 3 days (Sep 14)

Z--Seney NWR Show Pool Shelter Replacement and Site R

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Reserved for small businesses
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NV ✓ Confirmed Due today (Sep 11)

Z--Road Repairs NEXRAD Battle Mountain/Reno, NV - NWS

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Reserved for small businesses
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Specialty Trades · NAICS 238990

The government opened 664 new Specialty Trades jobs in the 2025 federal budget year — about 55 a month.

How to read this

Each bar is one month. The number on top is how many new jobs the government posted that month, counted once per job — not once per change to it.

The dotted line is a typical month: 55 jobs. Bars above it were busier than usual, bars below it quieter.

The year runs October to September, because that is how the government budgets.

Where that work was, in the 2025 budget yearCounted once per job, not once per amendment.
StateJobsRelative volume
California30
Florida26
North Carolina18
New York15
Oregon15
South Carolina14
Texas14
Virginia14
Arizona13
Maryland13
Montana13
Nebraska11
36 other states191
U.S. territories and overseas Puerto Rico, Guam and the like, plus work on bases abroad. Real jobs, counted above, but not on any state's row. 51
Location not stated The notice didn't say where the work is. We leave these here rather than guessing a state for them. 226