Top 200 Contractors 2000

The federal government is still a huge purchaser, of course. Agencies spent $185 billion on prime contracts worth $25,000 or more in fiscal 1999, up from $182 billion the year before. Throw in spending on smaller purchases and in classified programs, and the government's aggregate purchasing power was well in excess of $200 billion last year.

But Uncle Sam is also trying to become a smarter, more innovative shopper. That's why this year our writers have taken an in-depth look at procurement trends, focusing on the shift away from piecemeal purchases of goods and services to the acquisition of broad-based business solutions.

The winners of the new Business Solutions in the Public Interest Awards, co-sponsored by Government Executive, the Council for Excellence in Government and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, exemplify this trend. This issue includes profiles of the six winners of this year's awards, ranging from the GSA Advantage! online shopping site to the Air Force's innovative Hunley Park military family housing renovation project. Of course, the issue also still contains our exclusive rankings of the top federal contractors in several different categories.

The rankings are compiled for Government Executive by Eagle Eye Publishers Inc. from Federal Procurement Data Center data covering fiscal 1999. The data center, part of the General Services Administration, gets its information from reports on contracting filed by other federal agencies.

Most of the vendors are private, for-profit U.S. companies. Some of the top contractors are universities or other nonprofit institutions, and a few are foreign-owned firms. The data cover only prime contracts worth more than $25,000.

Companies ranked in this issue are parent companies; outlays to subsidiaries or divisions are "rolled up" to the parent. Mergers and acquisitions are not reflected in the listings unless they became final before fiscal 1999 ended. For joint ventures, we have assigned each partner in the venture an equal portion of payments made under the contract in 1999.

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Top 200 Federal Contractors
Top 100 Civilian Agency Contractors
Top 100 Defense Contractors
Top Information Technology
Top Travel Vendors

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