Monitoring Evaluation Government Tenders in United States

Independence, evaluation design and the data a verifier is expected to produce

Monitoring and evaluation is commissioned precisely because the buyer cannot mark its own work, so independence is a structural requirement rather than a preference. Firms that designed or delivered the programme being evaluated are normally excluded, the declaration covers affiliates and named individuals, and the contract usually protects the evaluator's right to report findings the commissioner does not want. A tender that lacks that protection is worth reading twice before bidding.

The technical bid is an evaluation design, and it is judged on whether the design can actually support the claims the commissioner wants to make. Bidders set out the questions, the counterfactual or comparison strategy, sampling, instruments, analysis and the limits of what attribution the design permits. Baseline availability usually determines what is possible: where no baseline was collected, an honest bid says which questions become unanswerable rather than promising a retrospective one.

Third-party monitoring and verification is a distinct sub-market with different requirements. Here the supplier is confirming that reported activity actually happened -- deliveries made, works built, people trained -- often in places the commissioner cannot safely visit. That needs field teams, sampling protocols that resist manipulation, geotagged and timestamped evidence, and a chain of custody for data that would survive challenge. Security, access negotiation and duty of care for field staff are priced obligations, and the reporting cycle is usually frequent and fixed.

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 monitoring evaluation in United States?

GlobalGov holds 99 monitoring evaluation records from 67 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are National Institute Of Justice (12 records); National Institutes Of Health (5 records); Environmental Protection Agency (4 records); 257-Network Contract Office 17 (36C257) (3 records); Engineer Research And Development Center (3 records); 241-Network Contract Office 01 (36C241) (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 29% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are monitoring evaluation contracts worth in United States?

22 of the 99 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.1M and the largest single published value is $73.2M. By size, 1 under $100k, 9 between $100k and $1M, 10 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 77 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 monitoring evaluation tenders in United States?

Across the 80 United States monitoring evaluation notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 29 days. A quarter of them allowed 10 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 35. 26 of them (32%) 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 monitoring evaluation tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 7 notices a month in this category, 86 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 92, spread across 17 separate months of activity since 14 July 2016. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.

How does United States compare with other monitoring evaluation markets?

Among the 23 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable monitoring evaluation market, United States ranks 8th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (1,681 records against 99 here). Within United States itself, monitoring evaluation is the 65th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

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

These 99 records are collected from 5 official sources: SAM.gov (53), Grants.gov (22), Simpler.Grants.gov (20), UN Global Marketplace (2) 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 Monitoring Evaluation tenders in United States

Showing 2 of the 5 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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