What is open in the US today
In the snapshot behind this page — pulled on 11 November 2026 — 186 US notices were still open: 107 federal from SAM.gov and 79 local (58 city-level from the two city portals, 21 from the statewide portal we read).
- 107 open — Federal, on SAM.gov (the government-wide opportunities feed)
- 30 open — RAMP Open Bid Opportunities (Los Angeles) (city-level)
- 28 open — NYC City Record (Current Solicitations) (city-level)
- 21 open — Illinois BidBuy (CMS) (state-level)
Counted when this page loaded, from the same file the weekly brief is built from, and re-checked against the clock: a notice whose deadline has passed is not in any of these numbers. Local feeds are added one at a time — every state runs a portal like Illinois’ — so this list grows, and the counts here are the honest current state rather than a coverage claim.
Every notice below was still open when we last checked the official feeds, 2 days ago (11 November 2026 at 17:43 UTC).
We check every closing date each time this page is loaded, so a notice whose deadline has passed is never shown here — the dates you can see are still open. Check the official notice itself before you plan any bid work.
Why there is no value next to a US notice
This is the one place the US market differs from the UK, and it is worth stating plainly: SAM.gov publishes no contract value for an open solicitation, and neither do the New York City, Los Angeles or Illinois portals. UK notices often carry the buyer’s own published estimate; American ones do not. So a US entry in the weekly brief shows the buyer, the agency, the deadline and the link to the official notice — and no money, because there is none published to show. We would rather leave the field empty than put a guess in it.
What we do add on this side is the filter. A federal feed this broad contains a great deal of work that no small supplier can win — set-asides you do not qualify for, work that can only be done by the incumbent, and solicitations for services you do not provide. We read the notices in it, keep the ones a small bidder could plausibly answer, and put them in one short list a week. The free sample brief shows exactly what that list looks like.
Bidding outside the US as well
The same weekly brief carries the UK notices, counted separately on UK government contracts — where the buyer usually does publish a value. For both markets in one place, the combined page counts the lot.
The shortlist, not another feed
One email a week, every Tuesday: the live notices worth your time, each with the buyer, the closing date, the published value where the buyer published one, one line on why it fits a small supplier, and a link to the official notice. It is a subscription, billed monthly through Stripe, and you can cancel any time. We add no markup to anything.
US contracts by category
Every category we publish a page for in this market, with the number of open notices behind it at the moment you loaded this page. The counts come from the same snapshot as the one above.
- Construction contracts
21 open notices in this snapshot.
- Facilities and cleaning contracts
19 open notices in this snapshot.
- Transport contracts
17 open notices in this snapshot.
- Health services contracts
20 open notices in this snapshot.
- Professional services contracts
21 open notices in this snapshot.
- Catering contracts
8 open notices in this snapshot.
- Waste contracts
20 open notices in this snapshot.
- Maintenance contracts
24 open notices in this snapshot.
- IT and digital contracts
13 open notices in this snapshot.
- Education contracts
9 open notices in this snapshot.
Start from the market you bid in
- The free sample brief
The main page’s free sample brief: seven real notices as they went out, what the weekly brief contains, the price and the FAQ.
- Government contract alerts — UK and US, every category
What is open in both markets today, why a filtered alert beats a keyword alert, and how the weekly brief works.
- UK government contracts and public-sector tenders
Every UK category, from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender — with the live count on each service.
- How to find council IT tenders
Where councils publish IT work, how to set up the free alerts yourself, and how to read a notice in two minutes.
- Tender alerts for UK MSPs and small IT firms
Why keyword alerts stop getting read, an honest comparison of the options, and what TenderPulse does and does not do.
- NHS IT tenders
Where health IT notices are published, and which contract shapes a small supplier can realistically win.