Energy Government Tenders in United States

Buying supply, generation and efficiency under one heading

Energy notices cover three different transactions that a bidder should separate before responding. The first is supply: a contract to deliver electricity or gas to meter points, priced as a unit rate with standing charges, awarded for a term and increasingly specified by generation source. The second is generation or connection assets -- plant, substations, heat networks, storage -- which is capital works with commissioning and grid connection at its centre. The third is performance-based efficiency work, which is a financing structure as much as a construction one.

Supply contracts turn on when the price is fixed. Buyers may take a fixed price for the whole term, fix in tranches as the market moves, or buy flexibly against a wholesale index with a supplier managing the purchasing, and the tender states which. Each puts the price risk in a different place, and comparing bids across mechanisms is not possible without modelling them on a common basis. Where renewable or low-carbon content is required, buyers now ask for certificate-backed evidence rather than a description of the supplier's generation mix.

Performance contracting deserves its own reading. In these arrangements the supplier designs and installs measures -- lighting, controls, heat generation, fabric -- and is paid from the savings, sometimes with a guarantee that underwrites them. The whole contract then rests on the measurement and verification protocol: the agreed baseline, the adjustments for weather and occupancy, and who measures. Bidders and buyers who negotiate the technology before the measurement protocol usually end up arguing about the measurement protocol.

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 energy in United States?

GlobalGov holds 2,062 energy records from 326 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are Golden Field Office (296 records); DLA Land and Maritime (166 records); DLA Aviation (112 records); National Energy Technology Laboratory (92 records); Office Of Science (77 records); NASA Headquarters (71 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 39% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are energy contracts worth in United States?

186 of the 2,062 records publish a contract value. The median is $111,361 and the largest single published value is $7.7B. By size, 89 under $100k, 66 between $100k and $1M, 18 between $1M and $10M, 13 above $10M. The remaining 1,876 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 energy tenders in United States?

Across the 1,946 United States energy notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 21 days. A quarter of them allowed 11 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 60. 606 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 energy tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 89 notices a month in this category, 1,067 in the last twelve months. That is 3133% more than the 33 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 1,180, spread across 213 separate months of activity since 9 May 2006. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.

How does United States compare with other energy markets?

Among the 34 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable energy market, United States ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within United States itself, energy is the 22nd largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

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

These 2,062 records are collected from 5 official sources: SAM.gov (1,046), Grants.gov (1,000), Simpler.Grants.gov (8), USAspending (6) and 1 smaller source. 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 Energy tenders in United States

Showing 10 of the 28 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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