Competence, certification and the paperwork that makes an installation legal
Electrical work is one of the most tightly regulated trades a public buyer procures, and competence is evidenced at two levels. The enterprise holds registration with a recognised body that audits its work; the individuals hold qualifications for the specific activity, including separate authorisation for high-voltage work, testing and inspection. Buyers verify both, and they verify the scope of the registration, because a contractor registered for domestic work is not thereby competent for a substation.
The deliverable that closes the job is a certificate, not a completed installation. Installation certificates, test results for continuity, insulation resistance, earth fault loop impedance and residual current device operation, and as-installed drawings and schedules are required before handover and are the evidence the buyer holds for its own statutory duties. Periodic inspection and testing on a defined cycle is a separate recurring requirement that is often let in the same contract and priced per circuit or per distribution board.
Work in occupied buildings is governed by isolation rather than by programme. Live working is normally prohibited, so the job depends on planned shutdowns agreed with the occupier, often at night or at weekends, under a permit to work with lock-off and proving procedures. Where standby generation, uninterruptible supplies or life safety systems are involved, the sequence of isolation is designed rather than improvised. Bidders who price the installation and not the access windows consistently underestimate these contracts, and buyers who do not specify the windows receive prices that assume the worst.
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 electrical installation in United States?
GlobalGov holds 430 electrical installation records from 229 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are 257-Network Contract Office 17 (36C257) (11 records); 260-Network Contract Office 20 (36C260) (10 records); Air Education and Training Command (9 records); Internat Boundary and Water Comm (8 records); 262-Network Contract Office 22 (36C262) (7 records); 81 Cons Cc (7 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 12% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 257-Network Contract Office 17 (36C257) | 11 | 2.6% |
| 260-Network Contract Office 20 (36C260) | 10 | 2.3% |
| Air Education and Training Command | 9 | 2.1% |
| Internat Boundary and Water Comm | 8 | 1.9% |
| 262-Network Contract Office 22 (36C262) | 7 | 1.6% |
| 81 Cons Cc | 7 | 1.6% |
What are electrical installation contracts worth in United States?
24 of the 430 records publish a contract value. The median is $167,759 and the largest single published value is $99.0M. By size, 8 under $100k, 8 between $100k and $1M, 4 between $1M and $10M, 4 above $10M. The remaining 406 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.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 8 | 33% |
| between $100k and $1M | 8 | 33% |
| between $1M and $10M | 4 | 17% |
| above $10M | 4 | 17% |
How long do bidders get to respond to electrical installation tenders in United States?
Across the 419 United States electrical installation notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 12 days. A quarter of them allowed 7 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 18. 228 of them (54%) 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 electrical installation tenders published in United States?
United States publishes about 34 notices a month in this category, 411 in the last twelve months. That is 3062% more than the 13 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 425, spread across 17 separate months of activity since 4 April 2016. April is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 15 May 2026, 139 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 electrical installation markets?
Among the 19 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable electrical installation market, United States ranks 2nd by number of records. The largest is Germany (814 records against 430 here). Within United States itself, electrical installation is the 46th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the United States electrical installation records on this page come from?
These 430 records are collected from 1 official source: SAM.gov (430). 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 Electrical Installation tenders in United States
Showing 3 of the 3 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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