Plumbing Hvac Government Tenders in United States

Mechanical services, commissioning and the risk that sits in water systems

Mechanical services are bought as a designed and commissioned system rather than as installed pipework. Heating, cooling, ventilation and water services are specified by the conditions they must hold -- temperature, humidity, air change rate, pressure regime, flow and return temperatures -- and the contract is only complete when the system is proved to hold them. Commissioning and balancing, with witnessed results for every terminal, is a defined stage with payment attached and is routinely underpriced by bidders who treat it as snagging.

Water hygiene is the obligation with the sharpest legal edge. Domestic water systems require a risk assessment, temperature control or equivalent measures, avoidance of dead legs and stagnation during construction as well as in use, and documented flushing and disinfection before handover. Responsibility for the system during the period between installation and occupation is a common gap, and contracts increasingly name who holds it. Backflow prevention, and certification of anyone working on the supply, are separately regulated.

The operating handover is what determines whether the installation performs in year three. Buyers require as-installed drawings, valve and damper schedules, control strategies in a documented and editable form, operating and maintenance manuals and training for the site team, and increasingly a period of seasonal commissioning after occupation, because a system balanced in one season frequently fails to satisfy in the other. Refrigerant handling, leak testing and end-of-life recovery carry their own certification and record-keeping obligations that the supplier retains.

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 plumbing hvac in United States?

GlobalGov holds 7,590 plumbing hvac records from 435 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are DLA Land and Maritime (2,071 records); DLA Land and Maritime (1,377 records); DLA Troop Support (632 records); DLA Troop Support (559 records); NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support MECH (314 records); Navsup Weapon Systems Support Mech (252 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 69% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

What are plumbing hvac contracts worth in United States?

969 of the 7,590 records publish a contract value. The median is $62,088 and the largest single published value is $500.0M. By size, 631 under $100k, 320 between $100k and $1M, 16 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 6,621 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 plumbing hvac tenders in United States?

Across the 7,454 United States plumbing hvac notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 12 days. A quarter of them allowed 11 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 15. 4,828 of them (65%) 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 plumbing hvac tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 608 notices a month in this category, 7,298 in the last twelve months. That is 2992% more than the 236 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 7,539, spread across 50 separate months of activity since 8 March 2016. 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.

Where do the United States plumbing hvac records on this page come from?

These 7,590 records are collected from 1 official source: SAM.gov (7,590). 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 Plumbing Hvac tenders in United States

Showing 10 of the 44 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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