Advisory, implementation and the line buyers draw between them
IT consulting sits between two markets a public buyer keeps separate on purpose. Advisory work -- architecture, strategy, procurement support, assurance of somebody else's delivery -- is bought for independence, and a firm that provides it is frequently barred from bidding for the implementation it shaped. Implementation consulting is bought for delivery capacity and is judged on method and people. Reading which side of that line a notice sits on is the first commercial question, because winning the wrong one can foreclose a larger opportunity.
Engagement is dominated by frameworks with rate cards by role and seniority, called off through further competition or direct award. That makes the published rate card the real bid, and it makes the proposed blend of grades the real price: two suppliers with identical rates can quote very different totals for the same work depending on how much of it they put on senior staff. Buyers increasingly cap the proportion of junior time and require named individuals with the right to reject substitutions.
The terms that decide whether a consulting engagement leaves anything behind are about knowledge and exit. Public buyers now routinely require documented handover, the transfer of models, configurations and scripts produced during the work, restrictions on the consultant's ability to resell the same artefacts back, and a transition obligation at the end of the term. Where the work touches personal or classified data, security clearance for staff, approved working locations and controls on offshore access are conditions of entry rather than negotiable preferences.
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 it consulting in United States?
GlobalGov holds 32 it consulting records from 18 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are GSA/FAS Furniture Systems MGT DIV (15 records); Air Force District of Washington (1 record); American Embassy Chiang Mai (1 record); DLA Land and Maritime (1 record); Dept of Commerce Pto (1 record); Dept of Commerce Sspo (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 62% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| GSA/FAS Furniture Systems MGT DIV | 15 | 47% |
| Air Force District of Washington | 1 | 3.1% |
| American Embassy Chiang Mai | 1 | 3.1% |
| DLA Land and Maritime | 1 | 3.1% |
| Dept of Commerce Pto | 1 | 3.1% |
| Dept of Commerce Sspo | 1 | 3.1% |
What are it consulting contracts worth in United States?
15 of the 32 records publish a contract value. The median is $500,000 and the largest single published value is $38.0M. By size, 8 between $100k and $1M, 6 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 17 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 | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 8 | 53% |
| between $1M and $10M | 6 | 40% |
| above $10M | 1 | 6.7% |
How long do bidders get to respond to it consulting tenders in United States?
Across the 28 United States it consulting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 4 days. A quarter of them allowed 1 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 12. 22 of them (79%) 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 it consulting tenders published in United States?
United States published 19 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 23, spread across 15 separate months of activity since 2 July 2021. April is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 6 May 2026, 148 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 it consulting markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable it consulting market, United States ranks 28th by number of records. The largest is Germany (2,535 records against 32 here). Within United States itself, it consulting is the 81st largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the United States it consulting records on this page come from?
These 32 records are collected from 1 official source: SAM.gov (32). 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 IT Consulting tenders in United States
Showing 2 of the 2 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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