Federal Government Policy and Business

Federal contractors confident after post-election uncertainty, says survey

Federal Times: Government contractors overall, but especially those in the federal tech sector, have increased confidence in 2017-2018 sales growth, according to a survey of 424 companies selling to federal, state, local and educational agencies.

Posing questions about growth and agency budgets to wide-ranging firms in the infrastructure, technology and other/services sectors, government business intelligence company Onvia constructed the government contractor confidence index presented in its third annual report.

Monitoring the composite results following the dips of 2016’s election year uncertainty, Onvia found an increase in overall confidence of 5 percent over last year’s survey, placing the current level (135.8) at its highest since 2015 (135.1).

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