Data Analytics Government Tenders in United States

Turning public sector data into something an organisation can act on

Analytics contracts fail more often on data than on analysis, and good tenders acknowledge it. The realistic first deliverable is an assessment of what data exists, who owns it, what condition it is in and what can legally be joined to what, and buyers increasingly phase the work so that a discovery stage is separately priced and the later stages can be stopped. A bid that proposes models and dashboards without addressing data quality and lineage is proposing the visible tenth of the work.

The legal framing is a procurement requirement, not a footnote. The roles of each party in processing personal data, the lawful basis for analysis, whether data can be linked across services, de-identification and the risk of re-identification at small geographies, and the governance approvals needed before a dataset moves are all specified. Where the supplier processes data in its own environment, location, access control and deletion at the end of the contract are contractual terms rather than assurances.

What the buyer ends up owning is the question that separates useful contracts from dependencies. Sound tenders require the code, the transformation logic, the model documentation and the trained model artefacts to be handed over and reusable, with the supplier prevented from reselling a derivative of the buyer's data. Where models will inform decisions about individuals, buyers now commonly require documented testing for bias across groups, an explanation of how a result was reached, and a defined human review point, and those requirements are scored rather than assumed.

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 data analytics in United States?

GlobalGov holds 241 data analytics records from 70 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are National Institutes Of Health (56 records); Office Of Science (15 records); Bureau Of Economic And Business Affairs (10 records); Bureau Of Arms Control And Nonproliferation (9 records); National Park Service (6 records); Technology Acquisition Center Nj (36C10B) (6 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 42% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are data analytics contracts worth in United States?

24 of the 241 records publish a contract value. The median is $5.9M and the largest single published value is $115.5M. By size, 1 under $100k, 2 between $100k and $1M, 11 between $1M and $10M, 10 above $10M. The remaining 217 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 data analytics tenders in United States?

Across the 208 United States data analytics notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 50 days. A quarter of them allowed 20 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 89. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 39 (19%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are data analytics tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 9 notices a month in this category, 107 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 134, spread across 82 separate months of activity since 23 March 2011. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.

How does United States compare with other data analytics markets?

Among the 5 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable data analytics market, United States ranks 2nd by number of records. The largest is United Kingdom (365 records against 241 here). Within United States itself, data analytics is the 56th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

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

These 241 records are collected from 4 official sources: Grants.gov (150), SAM.gov (69), Simpler.Grants.gov (20), USAspending (2). 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 Data Analytics tenders in United States

Showing 4 of the 7 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

Data Analytics procurement in other markets