Why these contracts are priced as rates rather than as a job
Maintenance is bought without knowing what will break. That single fact shapes the whole category: instead of a price for a defined scope, bidders price a schedule of rates -- a published list of individual operations, each with a unit and a rate -- and work is instructed, measured and paid against that list for the life of the contract. There is usually no guaranteed volume. A supplier that wins on rates and then receives a fraction of the expected instructions has won exactly what the contract promised, and bidders who model fixed overhead against hoped-for turnover are the ones who fail mid-term.
The specification splits into planned and reactive work, and they are scored differently. Planned preventive maintenance is a schedule against an asset register: known frequencies, known tasks, statutory inspections that must happen whether anything is wrong or not. Reactive work is governed by priority categories with an attendance time and a rectification time attached to each, and performance against those times is the measure the contract actually manages. Bidders should read the priority matrix before the task list, because it determines the standby cover the price has to carry.
Two obligations are easy to miss and expensive to retrofit. The first is data: buyers increasingly require every job to be raised, updated and closed in their own asset management system, with asset condition and remaining life fed back, so the supplier is maintaining the record as well as the asset. The second is statutory compliance evidence -- certificates for pressure systems, lifting equipment, electrical installations, fire safety and water hygiene -- which the buyer must be able to produce to a regulator on demand and which therefore becomes a contractual deliverable with dates attached.
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 maintenance & repair in United States?
GlobalGov holds 8,207 maintenance & repair records from 803 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are National Park Service (679 records); Fish And Wildlife Service (475 records); NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support (425 records); NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support MECH (331 records); Bureau Of Land Management (266 records); Department Of Education (253 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 30% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| National Park Service | 679 | 8.3% |
| Fish And Wildlife Service | 475 | 5.8% |
| NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support | 425 | 5.2% |
| NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support MECH | 331 | 4.0% |
| Bureau Of Land Management | 266 | 3.2% |
| Department Of Education | 253 | 3.1% |
What are maintenance & repair contracts worth in United States?
636 of the 8,207 records publish a contract value. The median is $346,524 and the largest single published value is $2.6B. By size, 192 under $100k, 261 between $100k and $1M, 138 between $1M and $10M, 45 above $10M. The remaining 7,571 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 | 192 | 30% |
| between $100k and $1M | 261 | 41% |
| between $1M and $10M | 138 | 22% |
| above $10M | 45 | 7.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to maintenance & repair tenders in United States?
Across the 7,808 United States maintenance & repair notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 15 days. A quarter of them allowed 9 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 31. 3,221 of them (41%) 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 maintenance & repair tenders published in United States?
United States publishes about 479 notices a month in this category, 5,746 in the last twelve months. That is 9807% more than the 58 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 5,880, spread across 219 separate months of activity since 15 January 2008. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.
How does United States compare with other maintenance & repair markets?
Among the 40 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable maintenance & repair market, United States ranks 2nd by number of records. The largest is Australia (35,937 records against 8,207 here). Within United States itself, maintenance & repair is the 1st largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the United States maintenance & repair records on this page come from?
These 8,207 records are collected from 5 official sources: SAM.gov (5,697), Grants.gov (2,478), USAspending (16), Simpler.Grants.gov (15) 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 Maintenance & Repair tenders in United States
Showing 10 of the 130 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.
Fort Pierce Harbor Maintenance Dredging, St. LUCIE County, Florida
American Alligators as Ecological Indicators of Everglades Restoration
American Crocodile Monitoring as an Indicator of Hydrologic Restoration in the Southern Estuaries for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District.
Wading Bird Response to Ecosystem Restoration in Southwest Florida
15--Fairing Assembly, in Repair/Modification of
59--Circuit Card Assemb, in Repair/Modification of
Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Notice: Maintenance of Commissary Refrigeration Systems and Repair of Refrigeration, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems (HVAC) at Hario and Sasebo, Japan
USDA FPAC GEO Film Scanner Maintenance
Fuel Tank Inspection, Test and Maintenance Service at Osan AB, Korea
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