Rate caps, margins and the mechanics of a temporary labour contract
Temporary staffing is bought through neutral vendor or master vendor arrangements far more often than through direct agency relationships, because a public body with many hiring managers needs one set of rates and one audit trail. The competition is therefore usually to run the arrangement or to sit on a supplier tier within it, and the winning variable is the margin above the worker's pay rate rather than the charge rate itself. Tenders commonly cap that margin by role family and require it to be disclosed on every placement.
The compliance burden is where bids are actually differentiated. Suppliers must evidence right to work, qualifications and professional registration, background checks appropriate to the setting, and correct employment status determination for tax purposes -- which in many jurisdictions has shifted liability onto the end client and made the supplier's assessment process a contractual deliverable. Equal treatment rules that entitle a temporary worker to the client's terms after a qualifying period change the cost of a long assignment and are routinely mispriced.
Service terms are about fill rather than supply. Buyers specify time to submit candidates, fill rates by role family, the proportion of assignments filled from within the tier, escalation when a role cannot be filled, and management information showing spend, tenure and conversion to permanent employment. Temp-to-permanent transfer fees, and whether they taper to zero after a period, are a standard negotiation point. Buyers increasingly scrutinise intermediary chains and umbrella arrangements, requiring visibility of every entity between the client and the worker.
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 staffing augmentation in United States?
GlobalGov holds 98 staffing augmentation records from 55 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are Department of Defense (25 records); Department of Energy (7 records); Department of Health and Human Services (4 records); Billings Area Indian Health Svc (3 records); DLA Energy (3 records); DLA Energy (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 46% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | 25 | 26% |
| Department of Energy | 7 | 7.1% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 4 | 4.1% |
| Billings Area Indian Health Svc | 3 | 3.1% |
| DLA Energy | 3 | 3.1% |
| DLA Energy | 3 | 3.1% |
What are staffing augmentation contracts worth in United States?
43 of the 98 records publish a contract value. The median is $112.8M and the largest single published value is $43.2B. By size, 1 under $100k, 1 between $100k and $1M, 41 above $10M. The remaining 55 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 | 1 | 2.3% |
| between $100k and $1M | 1 | 2.3% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 41 | 95% |
How long do bidders get to respond to staffing augmentation tenders in United States?
Across the 56 United States staffing augmentation 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 27. 22 of them (39%) 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 staffing augmentation tenders published in United States?
United States publishes about 8 notices a month in this category, 95 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 98, spread across 11 separate months of activity since 15 May 2025. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.
How does United States compare with other staffing augmentation markets?
Among the 27 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable staffing augmentation market, United States ranks 17th by number of records. The largest is France (3,039 records against 98 here). Within United States itself, staffing augmentation is the 66th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the United States staffing augmentation records on this page come from?
These 98 records are collected from 2 official sources: SAM.gov (57), USAspending (41). 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 Staffing Augmentation tenders in United States
Showing 1 of the 34 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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