Ground Transport Government Tenders in United States

Contracting passenger and goods movement by road

Ground transport is bought as a scheduled obligation rather than as a journey. The specification sets out routes or catchments, timetables or response windows, vehicle types and capacities, and the consequences of a service not running -- which in passenger transport is usually a deduction per missed departure. Contracts run for years because vehicles and drivers have to be committed to them, and they are frequently let in lots by geography so that operators of different sizes can compete for the part they can actually serve.

Driver supply, not vehicle supply, is the constraint that decides delivery. Bidders must show licensed drivers in the correct categories, compliance with driving hours and rest rules, tachograph or equivalent record keeping, and for services carrying children or vulnerable adults, background checks and often specific training. Buyers ask for the operator licence and the maintenance regime behind it, because a fleet taken off the road for defects is a service failure with no substitute. Where an incumbent workforce exists, employment transfer rules commonly apply as they do in other labour-intensive services.

Accessibility and safety requirements are specified in detail and are not optional. Wheelchair access and securement, boarding assistance, seat belts, passenger information in accessible formats, and increasingly vehicle emission standards tied to low-emission zones all appear as conditions rather than preferences. Fuel or energy price movement is normally handled by an indexation clause, and bidders should check whether one exists before assuming a multi-year price can be held: its absence is a material risk in a category where fuel is a large share of the cost.

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 ground transport in United States?

GlobalGov holds 627 ground transport records from 263 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are Mschq Norfolk (45 records); MSCHQ Norfolk (34 records); Ustranscom-AQ (24 records); Log-9 (15 records); W6QM MICC Ft Mccoy (RC) (15 records); W7M6 USPFO Activity ILANG 183 (12 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 23% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are ground transport contracts worth in United States?

71 of the 627 records publish a contract value. The median is $504,000 and the largest single published value is $1.1B. By size, 17 under $100k, 21 between $100k and $1M, 20 between $1M and $10M, 13 above $10M. The remaining 556 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 ground transport tenders in United States?

Across the 570 United States ground transport 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 19. 305 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 ground transport tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 48 notices a month in this category, 581 in the last twelve months. That is 2135% more than the 26 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 614, spread across 32 separate months of activity since 1 May 2017. 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 ground transport markets?

Among the 31 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable ground transport market, United States ranks 8th by number of records. The largest is France (3,436 records against 627 here). Within United States itself, ground transport is the 40th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

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

These 627 records are collected from 1 official source: SAM.gov (627). 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 Ground Transport tenders in United States

Showing 10 of the 14 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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