Catalogue frameworks, refresh cycles and what happens to the old kit
ICT hardware is bought through catalogue frameworks far more often than through one-off competitions, because the products change faster than a procurement cycle. A framework fixes the supplier, the terms and a discount structure, and the catalogue is refreshed during the term as models are superseded. The consequence for bidders is that the competition is won on the mechanism -- discount off a published price list, the commitment to substitute equivalent or better as models retire -- rather than on the specification of any single device.
Minimum technical specifications are stated as a floor, not a target, and the terms that differentiate bids sit around the device. Warranty length and whether it is return-to-base or on-site with a next-business-day engineer, the availability of spares for the stated support period, and energy efficiency and environmental certification are all scored. For volume rollouts, buyers frequently require imaging with their own build, asset tagging and registration, staged delivery to named sites and installation at the desk rather than delivery to a loading bay.
The obligation bidders most often underprice is at the other end of the life cycle. Taking away displaced equipment, erasing or destroying the data on it to a recognised standard with certificates issued per asset, and disposing of or refurbishing it under electrical waste rules is normally the supplier's responsibility, and the residual value of what is collected is increasingly required to be credited back to the buyer rather than kept. A bid that prices the new hardware and not the removal of the old is incomplete against the specification it is answering.
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 ict equipment in United States?
GlobalGov holds 1,603 ict equipment records from 320 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are DLA Aviation (175 records); DLA Aviation (172 records); DLA Land and Maritime (150 records); DLA Land and Maritime (136 records); Department of Defense (91 records); W6QM MICC-Ft Drum (61 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 49% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| DLA Aviation | 175 | 11% |
| DLA Aviation | 172 | 11% |
| DLA Land and Maritime | 150 | 9.4% |
| DLA Land and Maritime | 136 | 8.5% |
| Department of Defense | 91 | 5.7% |
| W6QM MICC-Ft Drum | 61 | 3.8% |
What are ict equipment contracts worth in United States?
218 of the 1,603 records publish a contract value. The median is $817,393 and the largest single published value is $1.4B. By size, 52 under $100k, 59 between $100k and $1M, 8 between $1M and $10M, 99 above $10M. The remaining 1,385 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 | 52 | 24% |
| between $100k and $1M | 59 | 27% |
| between $1M and $10M | 8 | 3.7% |
| above $10M | 99 | 45% |
How long do bidders get to respond to ict equipment tenders in United States?
Across the 1,442 United States ict equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 11 days. A quarter of them allowed 8 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 15. 828 of them (57%) 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 ict equipment tenders published in United States?
United States publishes about 125 notices a month in this category, 1,499 in the last twelve months. That is 1872% more than the 76 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 1,578, spread across 39 separate months of activity since 14 January 2016. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.
How does United States compare with other ict equipment markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable ict equipment market, United States ranks 5th by number of records. The largest is Poland (5,761 records against 1,603 here). Within United States itself, ict equipment is the 24th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the United States ict equipment records on this page come from?
These 1,603 records are collected from 2 official sources: SAM.gov (1,504), USAspending (99). 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 Ict Equipment tenders in United States
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 1,603 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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