Cybersecurity Government Tenders in United States

Assurance, testing and what a security services contract has to prove

Security services are bought as assurance, which means the supplier's own credentials are part of the deliverable. Buyers require certified testers from a recognised scheme for penetration testing, accredited consultancies for risk assessment against a named framework, and evidence that the supplier's own environment meets at least the standard it is being engaged to assess. A firm that cannot evidence its own information security management is a poor advertisement for the advice it is selling, and evaluations increasingly say so explicitly.

Scope definition is the contractual heart of testing work and the commonest source of dispute. Rules of engagement set out which systems are in scope, which techniques are permitted, what happens when a critical finding is discovered mid-test, out-of-hours windows, and the authorisation that makes otherwise unlawful activity lawful. Testing against systems hosted by a third party requires that party's written permission, which is a lead time bidders should assume rather than discover.

Monitored services -- detection and response delivered continuously -- are a different commercial animal from assessment. They are priced by volume of telemetry or by assets covered, and the terms that matter are coverage hours, time to detect and time to respond by severity, who is authorised to take containment action on the buyer's systems, and how incident evidence is preserved for later investigation. Clearance for analysts, the location of the operations centre, and data residency for logs are usually fixed by the buyer rather than proposed, and the exit terms should leave the buyer holding its own detection content.

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 cybersecurity in United States?

GlobalGov holds 247 cybersecurity records from 77 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are National Park Service (33 records); Office Of Procurement Operations - Grants Division (20 records); Department Of Homeland Security - FEMA (13 records); National Energy Technology Laboratory (10 records); NAVSUP FLT Log CTR San Diego (7 records); NIWC Atlantic (7 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 36% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are cybersecurity contracts worth in United States?

17 of the 247 records publish a contract value. The median is $11.1M and the largest single published value is $103.6M. By size, 1 under $100k, 4 between $100k and $1M, 3 between $1M and $10M, 9 above $10M. The remaining 230 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 cybersecurity tenders in United States?

Across the 223 United States cybersecurity notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 30 days. A quarter of them allowed 11 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 60. 70 of them (31%) 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 cybersecurity tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 8 notices a month in this category, 94 in the last twelve months. That is 755% more than the 11 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 114, spread across 100 separate months of activity since 9 December 2009. July is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.

How does United States compare with other cybersecurity markets?

Among the 21 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable cybersecurity market, United States ranks 5th by number of records. The largest is France (420 records against 247 here). Within United States itself, cybersecurity is the 55th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

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

These 247 records are collected from 4 official sources: Grants.gov (156), SAM.gov (82), Simpler.Grants.gov (5), USAspending (4). 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 Cybersecurity tenders in United States

Showing 5 of the 16 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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