Agricultural Equipment Government Tenders in United States

Why after-sales coverage decides these awards more often than price

Agricultural machinery is bought to be used a long way from a workshop, in a season that does not wait. That turns after-sales support into the dominant evaluation criterion in most of these competitions. Buyers ask for the location of dealer or service points relative to where the equipment will operate, guaranteed response times in the working season, the stock of fast-moving spares held in country, and a commitment to parts availability for a stated number of years. A machine that is cheaper and unsupported is scored as what it is: an asset that will stop and stay stopped.

Specification is written in performance terms rather than by model -- power output, implement compatibility and hitch category, working width, tank or hopper capacity, ground clearance, fuel consumption -- because the buyer wants competing manufacturers to be able to answer. Where the equipment is for smallholder or cooperative use, the specification frequently favours simplicity and field repairability over sophistication, and bidders who offer the most advanced machine can lose to one that a village mechanic can maintain.

Two practical requirements decide delivery. Operator and maintenance training, delivered in the working language with manuals to match, is normally a priced obligation rather than a courtesy, and acceptance can depend on it. And field demonstration is a real evaluation stage: buyers commonly require shortlisted machines to be demonstrated under local soil and crop conditions, which excludes bidders who cannot get a machine into the country for a trial. Delivery terms to rural destinations, including offloading at sites without handling equipment, belong in the price rather than in a later claim.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys agricultural equipment in United States?

GlobalGov holds 109 agricultural equipment records from 41 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are DOC Noaa - ERA Production (21 records); W6QM MICC-Ft Drum (12 records); Department Of Commerce (7 records); National Institute Of Standards And Technology (6 records); Agricultural Marketing Service (4 records); DOC NOAA - ERA Production (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 50% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are agricultural equipment contracts worth in United States?

33 of the 109 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.5M and the largest single published value is $1.4B. By size, 3 under $100k, 12 between $100k and $1M, 8 between $1M and $10M, 10 above $10M. The remaining 76 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to agricultural equipment tenders in United States?

Across the 86 United States agricultural equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 15 days. A quarter of them allowed 8 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 59. 41 of them (48%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.

How often are agricultural equipment tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 6 notices a month in this category, 74 in the last twelve months. That is 335% more than the 17 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 97, spread across 20 separate months of activity since 6 July 2011. April is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 14 May 2026, 140 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does United States compare with other agricultural equipment markets?

Among the 37 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable agricultural equipment market, United States ranks 28th by number of records. The largest is France (4,262 records against 109 here). Within United States itself, agricultural equipment is the 62nd largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United States agricultural equipment records on this page come from?

These 109 records are collected from 3 official sources: SAM.gov (58), Simpler.Grants.gov (40), Grants.gov (11). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Open Agricultural Equipment tenders in United States

Showing 2 of the 5 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the United States market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

Other procurement categories in United States

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