Joining systems that were never designed to meet, and who owns the result
Systems integration contracts are bought when a buyer has capable components that do not work together, and the value is in the interfaces. The critical procurement decision is architectural: whether integration happens through a layer the buyer owns, built on published standards and documented interfaces, or through bespoke connections held by the integrator. The second is faster and cheaper to deliver and creates a dependency that outlasts the contract, which is why public buyers increasingly specify the first explicitly.
Accountability is the second question, and it is why these contracts exist. When an end-to-end process fails, individual suppliers each demonstrate that their component met its specification. A prime integrator takes responsibility for the whole, which is valuable and expensive; a multi-supplier model with the buyer integrating is cheaper and requires the buyer to hold capability it often does not have. Tenders should state which model is being bought, and bidders should price the assurance obligations accordingly.
Testing is the substance of delivery. End-to-end scenarios across system boundaries, data migration reconciliation, non-functional testing for load and failure, and a period of parallel running before cutover are specified stages with acceptance criteria and payment attached. Environments are a frequently underestimated dependency: integration testing needs representative instances of systems owned by other parties, and the availability of those environments belongs in the risk register rather than in an assumption. Interface documentation handed to the buyer at the end is what makes the next change possible.
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 systems integration in United States?
GlobalGov holds 51 systems integration records from 9 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are GSA/FAS Furniture Systems MGT DIV (43 records); 262-Network Contract Office 22 (36C262) (1 record); DLA Aviation (1 record); Naval Air Warfare Center Air DIV (1 record); NAVSEA Hq (1 record); NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support Mech (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 94% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| GSA/FAS Furniture Systems MGT DIV | 43 | 84% |
| 262-Network Contract Office 22 (36C262) | 1 | 2.0% |
| DLA Aviation | 1 | 2.0% |
| Naval Air Warfare Center Air DIV | 1 | 2.0% |
| NAVSEA Hq | 1 | 2.0% |
| NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support Mech | 1 | 2.0% |
What are systems integration contracts worth in United States?
43 of the 51 records publish a contract value. The median is $500,000 and the largest single published value is $200.0M. By size, 26 between $100k and $1M, 11 between $1M and $10M, 6 above $10M. The remaining 8 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 | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 26 | 60% |
| between $1M and $10M | 11 | 26% |
| above $10M | 6 | 14% |
How long do bidders get to respond to systems integration tenders in United States?
Across the 45 United States systems integration notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 1 day. A quarter of them allowed 1 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 1. 39 of them (87%) 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 systems integration tenders published in United States?
United States published 12 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 32, spread across 35 separate months of activity since 30 June 2021. April is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 6 May 2026, 148 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 systems integration records on this page come from?
These 51 records are collected from 1 official source: SAM.gov (51). 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.
Most recent Systems Integration tenders in United States
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 51 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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