Facilities and Cleaning Government Tenders in United States

Output specifications, staff transfer and why labour cost is mostly fixed

Cleaning contracts are written one of two ways and the difference changes everything a bidder does. An input specification states how many hours are worked, where and when, and the supplier is paid to provide them. An output specification states the standard a space must reach and leaves the method to the supplier, with inspection against the standard deciding payment. Buyers have moved toward output specifications, which rewards bidders who can demonstrate a credible staffing model and punishes those who simply quote fewer hours to win.

Labour is the overwhelming majority of the cost and much of it is not within the bidder's control. Where an incumbent workforce exists, employment protection commonly transfers the existing staff on their existing terms, so the bid is built on a payroll the bidder inherits rather than designs. Applicable wage floors, and increasingly a contractual commitment to a voluntary living wage, set the rest. The realistic levers are productivity, supervision ratios, equipment and materials -- which is why method statements and proposed cleaning schedules are scored seriously rather than filed.

Several requirements sit outside cleaning itself. Staff working in schools, healthcare and secure sites require background checks and sometimes clearance before they attend. Materials must be accompanied by safety data sheets and used under a documented control regime, with environmental criteria on products and packaging now frequently scored. Specialist frequencies -- periodic deep cleans, window and high-level work, carpet and floor treatment, washroom consumables and waste -- are priced separately from the daily service, and a bid that folds them into an hourly rate is usually not comparing like with like.

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 facilities and cleaning in United States?

GlobalGov holds 2,239 facilities and cleaning records from 650 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are W6QM MICC Ft Mccoy (RC) (151 records); National Cemetery Admin (36C786) (137 records); W6QK ACC-Pica (60 records); W076 Endist Ft Worth (53 records); National Cemetery Admin (36C786) (49 records); W076 Endist Tulsa (49 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 22% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are facilities and cleaning contracts worth in United States?

276 of the 2,239 records publish a contract value. The median is $218,964 and the largest single published value is $220.7M. By size, 85 under $100k, 145 between $100k and $1M, 34 between $1M and $10M, 12 above $10M. The remaining 1,963 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 facilities and cleaning tenders in United States?

Across the 2,148 United States facilities and cleaning notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 14 days. A quarter of them allowed 8 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 22. 1,063 of them (49%) 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 facilities and cleaning tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 168 notices a month in this category, 2,012 in the last twelve months. That is 916% more than the 198 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 2,221, spread across 42 separate months of activity since 18 May 2016. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 3 July 2026.

How does United States compare with other facilities and cleaning markets?

Among the 37 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable facilities and cleaning market, United States ranks 4th by number of records. The largest is France (3,120 records against 2,239 here). Within United States itself, facilities and cleaning is the 19th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United States facilities and cleaning records on this page come from?

These 2,239 records are collected from 2 official sources: SAM.gov (2,238), USAspending (1). 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 Facilities and Cleaning tenders in United States

Showing 10 of the 45 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.

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