According to the SBA, in the government’s fiscal year 2018 (the most recent year for statistics), 25.1% of contracting dollars went to small business, up from 23.9% in FY 2017 and 24.3% in FY 2016. Of agencies with at least $1 billion in eligible contract dollars, the ones that awarded the highest share of contracting dollars to small businesses were the Departments of Agriculture (63.1%), Interior (58.0%), and Commerce (45.9%).
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