US facilities and cleaning contracts: the live shortlist and where they're posted

In the snapshot behind this page — pulled on 11 November 2026 — 19 open facilities and cleaning contracts were in the file, out of 186 open contracts in the whole US market. Here is how they split by the portal each one was published on:

• 15 open — SAM.gov (federal)
• 2 open — RAMP Open Bid Opportunities (Los Angeles) (city-level)
• 1 open — Illinois BidBuy (CMS) (state-level)
• 1 open — NYC City Record (Current Solicitations) (city-level)

Counted when this page loaded, from the same file the weekly brief is built from, and re-checked against the clock at that moment: a notice whose closing date has passed is not in any of these numbers.

American public work is advertised at three levels, and this category is bought at all of them. Federal opportunities are published on SAM.gov, the government-wide opportunities feed. City work sits on the city’s own open-data portal — we read New York City’s City Record and Los Angeles’ RAMP marketplace. State work runs through the state procurement portal, which for us is Illinois’ BidBuy (which is also how we reach the Chicago region: Chicago’s own feed is a weekly PDF with no machine-readable deadline, so it cannot be covered without breaking our rule that a notice we show is still open). Every US state runs a portal like Illinois’ and we add them one at a time, so this list grows.

All of these feeds are free and public. You can search them yourself, set your own keyword alerts, and never pay anyone anything — that is the honest starting position, and the rest of this site is written on the assumption that you might. The US market page counts every category in this market together, and names each feed.

One thing worth knowing before you read a US notice: SAM.gov publishes no contract value for an open solicitation, and neither do the city and state portals. So there is no price attached to a US facilities and cleaning notice — by the buyer, not by us. What the notice does carry is the requirement, the period of performance, the contract type and the deadline, and on some federal notices a set-aside that decides whether you are eligible at all. That is what to read.

The notices are free, so the cost of this category is the time you spend on the wrong ones. Four things decide whether an open facilities and cleaning contract is worth a proper look:

• Who is buying. A facilities and cleaning contract from a buyer whose work you have done before is a different proposition from the same work for a body you have never dealt with, and the notice itself names the buyer and the agency behind it.
• Period of performance and scope. US notices state how long the contract runs and what has to be delivered, but not what it is worth — that figure is only published once a contract is awarded.
• The deadline, to the hour. Every notice carries a closing date and time, and some portals require you to be registered before you can submit — a federal bid usually needs an active registration on SAM.gov, and city portals ask for an account. Register first, then decide.
• What you have to submit. A price, a method statement, accreditations, insurances, references — the notice lists it, and it is the honest test of whether this is a week of work or an afternoon.

Bidding in the other market too? UK facilities and cleaning tenders are counted on that page, from that country’s own feeds.

A feed this broad will hand you everything: work only the incumbent can win, work in a category you do not do, and work far too large or too small for a small supplier. Deciding which of these contracts are worth an evening is the judgement TenderPulse sells — one short list a week, each entry with the buyer, the closing date, the published value where the buyer published one, one line on why it fits, and a link to the official notice. The current sample brief is free to read and is the whole shortlist format in the words it goes out in.