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STARS III

GSA's Small Business IT Services vehicle for 8(a) and small business IT contractors — 632 8(a) prime awardees providing task order IT services across federal agencies.

$22.5B

Ceiling

632

Prime Awardees

201

SCOUT Awards

$96.6M

SCOUT Obligated

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Vehicle Overview

Top Agencies Using STARS III

Rank	Agency	Spend
#1	Department of Labor	$20.7M
#2	Department of Health and Human Services	$19.2M
#3	Department of the Treasury	$16.5M
#4	Department of Homeland Security	$13.5M
#5	Department of Defense	$11.5M

Top Task Order Winners

Rank	Contractor	Orders	Total
#1	Sky Solutions LLC	34	$16.9M
#2	Arlluk Technology LLC	7	$11.3M
#3	Agile Decision Sciences	22	$8.2M
#4	Versa Integrated Solutions	5	$7.8M
#5	A3 Tech Solutions	15	$6.5M

Task Order Trends by Year

Year	Orders	Obligated
2023	36	$18.9M
2024	83	$36.3M
2025	69	$39.3M

Frequently Asked Questions — STARS III

How do I get on STARS III?

GSA regularly issues solicitations for new awardees. Register for SCOUT alerts to track STARS III solicitations and RFP releases. Once awarded, you can pursue task order competitions against other prime awardees.

Who are the dominant winners on STARS III?

Top task order winners are listed above. Patterns show which contractor capabilities and solutions are most in demand across agencies using this vehicle. Study their win strategies and proposal themes.

What is the market size for STARS III?

SCOUT has tracked $96.6M in task order obligations across 201 awards on STARS III. The official ceiling is $22.5B. Use these benchmarks for capture planning.

Data & Methodology

Federal contract and award data sourced from government procurement systems — including FPDS-NG, SAM.gov, and related federal data repositories. PrimeRFP SCOUT ingests, normalizes, and continuously updates records as agencies publish them. Reporting timelines vary by agency; some components (particularly DoD) carry a 60–90 day lag relative to award execution.

Dataset coverage — ≥ $100K floor

All intelligence on this page and within SCOUT is filtered to contracts with a cumulative current value of $100K or more. This threshold covers 98%+ of all federal contract dollars while filtering out micro-purchases and administrative actions — over 560,000 active contract awards and 2.5 million unique awardees, including small business set-asides, task orders, and mid-market opportunities.

Award identification: Each record is keyed by federal Award ID (PIID). Task orders recorded as independent awards appear as separate rows. IDIQs and their task orders are tracked distinctly.

Why SCOUT dollar figures differ from published annual totals: Per-agency dollar figures on SCOUT intelligence pages aggregate all USASpending transaction records — including base contract awards, task orders, delivery orders, and modifications to existing contracts. Annual federal contract obligation figures cited in industry reports (e.g., FY2025: $833.8B per Bloomberg Government) count only new prime award actions in the fiscal year, excluding mods. An IDIQ vehicle (like OASIS+) carries no obligation at award — only task orders issued against it are counted. SCOUT's transaction-level aggregates are larger because they capture the full activity picture across a contract's lifecycle, making them useful for competitive analysis and pipeline sizing rather than year-over-year spending comparison.

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