Small businesses won a record $96.8 billion in federal prime contracts in Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 (Oct. 1, 2008-Sept. 30, 2009), an increase of more than $3 billion from FY 2008, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s fourth annual small business procurement scorecard.  This dollar amount represents 21.89% of all federal spending— an improvement over FY2008.  Additionally, performance in each of the government’s socioeconomic subcategories increased for FY2009.

The scorecard, as well as a detailed explanation of the new scorecard methodology, is available online: http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/goals/index.html.