Public tenders in United States

How public tendering works in United States

The United States federal government is the largest single buyer in the world, and every federal opportunity worth more than $25,000 is advertised through one system.

• Our US listings come from SAM.gov's public Contract Opportunities extract, which the government republishes daily. We refresh it twice a day.
• We list solicitations, presolicitations and sources-sought notices that still have a response deadline. Many are set aside for small, veteran-owned or disadvantaged businesses - the set-aside is shown on each tender.
• To bid you need a SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID, which is free but takes time to obtain. Register before a deadline depends on it.
• This covers federal buying only. The fifty states and thousands of local governments each run their own procurement, which we do not yet cover.

Open now

10,681

Closing this week

4,606

Typical time to bid

18 days

With a published value

0%

Figures are counted from the 10,681 open United States tenders we hold right now, and change as notices are published and close. "Typical time to bid" is the median gap between publication and deadline.

Most common right now: Industrial machinery (1,507), Electrical machinery and apparatus (1,393), Transport equipment (1,122), Construction structures, materials and products (1,058), Construction work (980)

Buyers publishing most often: DLA WEAPONS SUPPORT, Dept of Defense, NAVSUP WEAPON SYSTEMS SUPPORT MECH, Dept of Defense, DLA AVIATION, Dept of Defense, NAVSUP WEAPON SYSTEMS SUPPORT, Dept of Defense, DLA AVIATION AT PHILADELPHIA, PA, Dept of Defense.