Specialist storage, archives and custody of things that must not deteriorate
Storage bought separately from distribution is usually bought because the contents need conditions, custody or both. Records and archives need stable temperature and humidity, fire suppression that will not destroy what it protects, pest management and controlled access; museum and heritage collections need the same to tighter tolerances with environmental monitoring logged continuously. The specification is therefore about the building and its systems, and bidders are assessed on measured performance of the facility rather than on floor area.
Custody obligations govern the contract. Item-level inventory, controlled and logged access, retrieval within a stated time, and documented destruction with certificates at the end of a retention period are deliverables, and for records containing personal data the supplier's role under data protection law is defined in the contract rather than implied. Retention schedules are usually the buyer's and must be applied faithfully, because premature destruction and indefinite retention are both failures.
Cold and controlled storage is a distinct sub-market with its own requirements: temperature mapping of the store, continuous monitoring with alarms and an out-of-hours response, backup power, and validated procedures for excursions. Hazardous and controlled goods bring licensing, segregation and quantity limits. Across all of it the questions that decide long-term value are the exit ones -- how quickly the collection can be retrieved in full, in what order, at whose cost -- because a store that is cheap to fill and slow to empty is a lock-in with a monthly charge.
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 warehousing storage in United States?
GlobalGov holds 31 warehousing storage records from 19 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are General Services Administration (4 records); DLA Energy (3 records); DLA Energy (3 records); Department of Defense (3 records); DLA Land and Maritime (2 records); FCI Edgefield (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 55% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| General Services Administration | 4 | 13% |
| DLA Energy | 3 | 9.7% |
| DLA Energy | 3 | 9.7% |
| Department of Defense | 3 | 9.7% |
| DLA Land and Maritime | 2 | 6.5% |
| FCI Edgefield | 2 | 6.5% |
What are warehousing storage contracts worth in United States?
10 of the 31 records publish a contract value. The median is $90.5M and the largest single published value is $172.2M. By size, 1 under $100k, 9 above $10M. The remaining 21 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 | 10% |
| between $100k and $1M | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 9 | 90% |
How long do bidders get to respond to warehousing storage tenders in United States?
Across the 20 United States warehousing storage notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 14 days. A quarter of them allowed 8 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 43. 10 of them (50%) 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 warehousing storage tenders published in United States?
United States publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 28 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 29, spread across 11 separate months of activity since 12 August 2021. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.
Where do the United States warehousing storage records on this page come from?
These 31 records are collected from 2 official sources: SAM.gov (23), USAspending (8). 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 Warehousing Storage tenders in United States
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 31 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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