Consolidation is causing harm to small businesses, primarily OSBs. By FY1995, the figure was one out of every two contracts. Overall spending is up, but the number of participating small companies and contracts to small companies is down. It appears much of this sector's growth is coming at the expense of OSBs. Fewer contracts, with increasingly higher average values, are issued to fewer market players.
LBs dominate sales, number of firms and contract counts.
Revenues in dollars increased 122 percent for SDBs and 13.9 percent for large businesses, while OSBs declined 27.4 percent. Overall trends indicate consolidation. Total spending, numbers of companies and numbers of contracts are down, and the CBC share of contracts and average contract value are up. SDB and OSBs have lost 12 percent and 21 percent of the share of the count of vendors, respectively. Overall spending is up, but the number of participating small companies and contracts to small companies is down, particularly in OSBs.