Schools and Universities Government Tenders in United States

Buying for education estates, and why term dates govern everything

Education procurement is scheduled around an academic calendar that cannot move. Building work, refurbishment, furniture replacement and systems migration are concentrated into vacation periods, which compresses programmes, creates a peak in demand that constrains supplier capacity, and makes liquidated damages for late completion unusually meaningful: a school that cannot open is a problem no amount of money solves. Bidders should treat the handover date in these contracts as genuinely fixed.

Safeguarding governs who may be on site and is checked rather than declared. Anyone working where children or young people are present normally requires a criminal record check at the appropriate level, identity verification and often supervision arrangements, and the supplier is responsible for maintaining the records. Site rules around segregation of works areas, escorted access, photography and the use of personal devices are contractual. These obligations apply to a plumber as much as to a teacher, and they are the most common cause of a supplier being turned away at the gate.

The buying structures are unusual in two respects. Purchasing consortia and central bodies aggregate demand across many institutions, so a single award can serve hundreds of sites with widely varying needs, and bidders must price a service across that spread rather than for a typical member. And in higher education, research infrastructure and teaching equipment are frequently funded by grants with their own eligibility rules, reporting requirements and spend deadlines, which constrains what can be bought, from whom and by when in ways that are not visible from the specification alone.

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 schools and universities in United States?

GlobalGov holds 44 schools and universities records from 26 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are National Aeronautics And Space Administration (4 records); Office Of Elementary And Secondary Education (4 records); W6QM MICC-Ft Drum (4 records); Air Force -- Research Lab (2 records); DOT - Federal Railroad Administration (2 records); Indian Education Acquisition Office (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 41% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are schools and universities contracts worth in United States?

16 of the 44 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.1M and the largest single published value is $73.5M. By size, 2 under $100k, 6 between $100k and $1M, 3 between $1M and $10M, 5 above $10M. The remaining 28 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 schools and universities tenders in United States?

Across the 32 United States schools and universities notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 30 days. A quarter of them allowed 8 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 39. 10 of them (31%) 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 schools and universities tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 25 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 34, spread across 17 separate months of activity since 22 February 2018. April is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 22 June 2026, 101 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 schools and universities markets?

Among the 28 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable schools and universities market, United States ranks 20th by number of records. The largest is Kenya (9,671 records against 44 here). Within United States itself, schools and universities is the 77th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United States schools and universities records on this page come from?

These 44 records are collected from 3 official sources: SAM.gov (15), Simpler.Grants.gov (15), Grants.gov (14). 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 Schools and Universities tenders in United States

Showing 4 of the 7 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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