Uniforms Clothing Government Tenders in United States

Sizing, fabric testing and the logistics of clothing a workforce

Clothing contracts are decided on evidence about fabric and on the ability to distribute, and rarely on design. Buyers specify textiles by composition and by tested performance -- tensile and tear strength, colour fastness to washing and light, dimensional stability after repeated industrial laundering, pilling and abrasion resistance -- and require test reports from accredited laboratories against the garment offered. For protective clothing the requirement hardens into certification: flame resistance, high-visibility class, chemical or electric arc protection are conformity-assessed categories where an uncertified garment is simply inadmissible.

Fit is a procurement problem rather than a tailoring one. A public workforce spans a wide size range and increasingly requires garments cut for different body shapes, so tenders specify a size chart, a wearer trial with real staff, and an obligation to supply made-to-measure outside the standard range at a controlled price. Wearer trials often change the ranking: a garment that passes every laboratory test and is uncomfortable over a shift will be rejected by the people who have to wear it, and buyers know it.

The service wrapped around the garment is usually what differentiates bids. Individual ordering portals with entitlement rules by role, name-labelled packing to the wearer rather than to a site, replacement lead times, buffer stock held by the supplier, and a commitment to keep a pattern available for years so that a workforce does not end up in two shades of the same uniform are all priced obligations. Ethical supply chain evidence and end-of-life take-back are now commonly scored, and both require traceability further up the chain than a converter usually holds.

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 uniforms clothing in United States?

GlobalGov holds 251 uniforms clothing records from 98 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are DLA Troop Support (54 records); DLA Troop Support (40 records); W6QM MICC-Ft Drum (34 records); DLA Distribution (4 records); DLA Maritime - Puget Sound (4 records); Navsup Flc Sigonella Naples Office (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 56% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

What are uniforms clothing contracts worth in United States?

21 of the 251 records publish a contract value. The median is $122,500 and the largest single published value is $104.5M. By size, 10 under $100k, 8 between $100k and $1M, 1 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 230 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 uniforms clothing tenders in United States?

Across the 241 United States uniforms clothing notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 12 days. A quarter of them allowed 8 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 17. 136 of them (56%) 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 uniforms clothing tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 18 notices a month in this category, 221 in the last twelve months. That is 821% more than the 24 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 245, spread across 19 separate months of activity since 27 July 2016. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 15 May 2026, 150 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 uniforms clothing markets?

Among the 32 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable uniforms clothing market, United States ranks 13th by number of records. The largest is France (2,141 records against 251 here). Within United States itself, uniforms clothing is the 54th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United States uniforms clothing records on this page come from?

These 251 records are collected from 3 official sources: SAM.gov (249), Grants.gov (1), USAspending (1). 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 2026-10-12.

Open Uniforms Clothing tenders in United States

Showing 6 of the 6 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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