You won a SEWP VI seat.
Now comes the hard part.

SEWP VI ordering opened November 1, 2026, with 2,115 awards to roughly 1,490 companies. That means more competition on every RFQ, hundreds of emails a day, and a Technology Refresh (TR) before you can quote anything new. Whether you have held a SEWP seat for years or just won your first, the program got harder.

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What changed

The pool did not just grow. It multiplied.

SEWP V had 147 prime holders. NASA made 2,115 SEWP VI awards to roughly 1,490 companies, including 364 in Category A, where IT product resellers compete. The field you are quoting against before an agency ever reaches you is a different size now.

Each dot is a SEWP VI winner. One of them is you.

dots displaying the amount of SEWP VI award winners

Other category winners (1,122)

Category A (364)

You

2,115

SEWP VI awards across three categories

364

Category A awards, where product resellers compete

$60B

SEWP VI contract ceiling

147 to ~1,490

SEWP V primes to SEWP VI companies

Three things changed

If you were on SEWP V, the structure you knew is gone.

If you are new, here is what you are walking into.

01 / Structure

A new category structure

SEWP VI splits into three categories: Category A (IT solutions, including products), Category B (enterprise-wide IT services), and Category C (mission-based IT services, set aside for small businesses). Under SEWP V, scope overlapped across groups. That is no longer true. Your category now sets what you can sell and who you compete against.

02 / Scale

The pool multiplied

SEWP V had 147 prime holders. SEWP VI has 2,115 awards, including 364 in Category A alone. Agencies have a far wider field to choose from before they ever reach your quote.

03 / Speed

Response speed decides

With this many holders on the vehicle, the window to respond competitively is tighter. Quotes that arrive slow, incomplete, or with TR errors are easy to pass over when the agency has hundreds of alternatives.

Technology Refresh (TR)

The compliance step most new holders miss, until it costs them a deal.

An agency posts an RFQ on SEWP

You receive the opportunity and the clock starts immediately.

It has to be on contract through a TR

Products and services must be on your SEWP VI catalog, with pricing, before you can quote them. No exceptions.

Get it wrong and you auto-lose, or worse

Non-compliant TRs do not just cost you the deal. Patterns of errors threaten your standing on the entire contract.

Govly builds, checks, and submits your TRs

Govly AI drafts TR lines from a vendor quote, CLIN checks catch errors before SEWP does, and you schedule, submit, and track every TR in one place. We have processed 90,581 of them.

On SEWP VI, nothing gets quoted until it is on contract through a Technology Refresh. It is not optional, and it does not get easier because the pool got bigger. Miss it, submit it wrong, or let it lapse, and you do not just lose the order. You put your standing on the contract at risk.

90,581

Technology Refreshes processed on Govly, and counting

Govly customers who won SEWP VI seats

>50%

of SEWP V primes used Govly to manage their catalog

Day 1

SEWP VI TR scheduling, submission, and CLIN checks are live in Govly. Our CS team gets you up to speed.

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When we switched to Govly, we increased our bid rate by 22%, which led to millions more in revenue.

Tracy Mills

Federal CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
SEWP VI holder

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It's the best software tool in the Federal GovCon space. They ingest several of the large Government Contracts procurements in the IT Space.

Jennifer Gallagher

Executive and Managing Director at
CTG Federal (SEWP VI holder)

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