# Federal and Texas Agencies Seek IT Contractors

As of November 2, the tracker counted 219 open federal notices for software, IT services, or staff augmentation—14 tagged AI/ML—and 30 open Texas software/IT bids. It also reported 103 new federal IT notices and five new Texas bids during the prior seven days. Seventy-six federal IT notices are due to close within seven days, including an FY27 fiber-related option-year notice due November 4, 2026, leaving contractors little time to assess that opportunity.

- Companies should triage the 76 near-term federal deadlines immediately; the fiber-related notice is due November 4.
- The volume of new notices—103 federal and five Texas—makes regular review of federal opportunities and the Texas Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD) relevant for teams pursuing software, IT services, staff augmentation, or AI/ML work.
- The 14 AI/ML-tagged notices identify a smaller, specific segment of the federal IT pipeline for firms with relevant capabilities.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Information Technology
**Topics:** Digital Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence
**Published:** November 02, 2026

### Government Entities
- Texas Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- United States Military Academy (USMA)

### Vendors
- Fiber Assetco LLC ()

### Sources
- [This week in government software & IT contracts (Nov 2)

I track open federal (https://t.co/B8mjJG8gjG) and Texas (ESBD) opportunities every day. Of about 6,900 open federal notices, 219 are software, IT services or staff-augmentation work (about 3.2%) (unchanged from last week).](https://x.com/VBierschwale/status/2117305335400567205) - twitter-contract-vehicles