Government Cleaning Contracts for Bid
Find federal, school, city, county, and state cleaning opportunities for janitorial, custodial, landscaping, and facilities support work. The free tool below is preloaded with NAICS 561720, 561210, and 561730: choose your state or search nationwide to see current SAM.gov matches, then open the prepared dossier demo to see the alerts, pricing context, and bid intelligence a paid account unlocks for your company.
Use the free tool below to see open SAM.gov bids that match your business and presolicitations you can prepare for now. Then open a prepared dossier preview to see the match analysis, award history, pricing context, and AI-assisted next steps you can use when you find your own opportunities.
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GovSentryOpportunity Overview
Design and Build Covered Parking Structure for Fighter Aircraft
An illustrative construction dossier showing how a completed report organizes notice details, profile fit, award comparisons, and next steps. These example figures are not a verified current opportunity.
Target & Match Score92%
Eligibility Assessment
Eligible with verification items
Profile data indicates a fit; confirm all official solicitation requirements before pursuing.
NAICS alignment
NAICS 236220 appears in the prepared construction-company profile.
Small-business competition
This sample illustrates how a set-aside would be checked against a company profile.
SAM.gov registration
Verify the company UEI and registration renewal date before bidding.
Market Context
89
Records analyzed
$1.85M
Average award
$764K
Median award
Strong
Illustrative fit signal — not a win probability
Competition signal
Recent Department of Defense construction awards under $10M show a broad small-project market with meaningful small-business participation.
| Comparable market | Winner signal | Award value |
|---|---|---|
| Same NAICS and agency family | Example comparable awardee | $2.03M illustrative award |
| Historical award set | Multiple public winners | $764K median |
Related Award Context
Example comparable awardee
$2.03M illustrative award
A related awardee is market context, not proof that it held the exact requirement. A live dossier should link the award record and distinguish a confirmed prior contractor from a broader comparable.
Pricing Intelligence
$21.7K–$9.77M
Comparable range
$1.85M
Average
$764K
Median
The awarded value was $2.03M. Use that amount and the comparable-award distribution as context, then price the active solicitation from its actual drawings, labor, material, bonding, and schedule requirements.
Related Opportunities
Executive Summary
Recommendation: Pursue when scope and bonding fit. The prepared profile has strong NAICS, small-business, and geographic alignment. A contract near $2M is substantial but within reach for many established specialty and general contractors.
Market Context
⚠️ NAICS-Based Data Limitation: Market data includes all contracts under this NAICS code, which can range from $10K local projects to $1B+ specialized systems. Past award sizes and winners may not reflect this specific opportunity's scope. Always review the solicitation details to assess fit.
89 comparable awards were analyzed. The average award was $1.85M and the median was $764K. Recent Department of Defense construction awards under $10M show a broad small-project market with meaningful small-business participation..
Similar Contract Winners
These are comparable awards selected by available NAICS, agency, or location fields. The search can broaden to NAICS-only results, and cached awards can be older than two years. They are not confirmed predecessors for this solicitation.
⚠️ Note: Awards shown may be for vastly different scopes/sizes under the same NAICS category. A $500M system and a $50K service contract can share the same NAICS code.
Related award context: Example comparable awardee — $2.03M illustrative award. A related awardee is market context, not proof that it held the exact requirement. A live dossier should link the award record and distinguish a confirmed prior contractor from a broader comparable.
Positioning Strategy
Lead with comparable design-build work, airfield or secured-facility experience, local subcontractor coverage, safety performance, and a schedule that minimizes disruption to flight operations.
Pricing Guidance
Comparable range: $21.7K–$9.77M. The awarded value was $2.03M. Use that amount and the comparable-award distribution as context, then price the active solicitation from its actual drawings, labor, material, bonding, and schedule requirements. Firm-fixed-price design-build construction; validate scope before using historical awards as a bid target.
Recommended Next Steps
Verify SAM.gov registration and the prepared profile
Review drawings, bonding, and site-access requirements
Research the awardee and comparable winners
Build a labor, material, and contingency model
Track related recompetes and new construction notices
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- • Market data is indicative, not definitive
- • Always review the actual solicitation documents for requirements and scope
- • GovSentry scores and AI judgments are screening aids, not calibrated win probabilities
- • Follow linked source records for factual claims; some estimates have no direct source link
- • Past performance data may include contracts of different sizes under the same NAICS code
- • GovSentry provides intelligence to inform your decision—final pursuit decisions require your expertise
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Open the full dossier at normal sizeUpdated September 2026
2026 Pricing Rules That Shape Government Cleaning Bids
Build federal labor cost from the incorporated wage determination. The Service Contract Act generally applies to covered federal service contracts over $2,500. For labor-heavy janitorial bids, the required wage and fringe benefit by occupation and locality can set the cost floor. Use the solicitation's determination and verify it against the Department of Labor's SCA wage-determination guidance.
A predecessor union agreement can follow the recompete. Under SCA Section 4(c), a successor contractor may have to pay service employees at least the wages and fringe benefits in the predecessor's collective bargaining agreement. That can materially change a cleaning bid's staffing price. DOL's Fact Sheet 85 explains the rule with a janitorial example.
Local bids can be closer to your crews, but the rules are portal-specific. School districts, counties, and cities may apply their own prevailing-wage, insurance, bonding, site-visit, and vendor-registration requirements. Search the state-filtered count above, then use GovSentry to monitor the additional state and local sources that are not included in the free SAM.gov total.
What Counts as a Janitorial & Facilities Services Contract?
Facilities services is a broad procurement category, and government contracts in this space range from a single-building custodial contract for a rural post office to a multi-year, multi-site base operations support (BOS) contract worth tens of millions. Most opportunities fall into one of a few buckets:
- •Janitorial / custodial. Routine cleaning, floor care, restroom servicing, trash and recycling removal, and periodic deep-cleaning of government offices, clinics, courthouses, and warehouses.
- •Grounds maintenance & landscaping. Mowing, turf and tree care, irrigation, snow and ice removal, parking-lot sweeping, and seasonal grounds upkeep for campuses and installations.
- •Building maintenance & O&M. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, preventive maintenance, minor repairs, and the broader operations and maintenance of building systems under a single facilities contract.
- •Integrated facilities management (IFM) & BOS. Bundled contracts where one prime delivers custodial, grounds, maintenance, pest control, and sometimes security or transportation across an entire site or installation.
- •Specialty services. Window cleaning, pest control, waste management, hazardous material cleanup, and post-construction or disaster-recovery cleaning, which often run as standalone solicitations.
The defining feature of this category is recurrence. Buildings do not stop needing to be cleaned, so these contracts renew on predictable cycles — which makes incumbent intelligence and recompete tracking especially valuable for anyone trying to break in.
Key NAICS Codes for Facilities Services
Your primary NAICS code determines your size standard, the set-asides you can claim, and the contracts the system will match you to. For janitorial and facilities work, these are the codes you will see most often on government contracting solicitations:
- 561720Janitorial Services. The core code for routine and special-event cleaning of building interiors. This is the anchor NAICS for most custodial solicitations.
- 561210Facilities Support Services. Used for combined-service and base operations contracts where a single contractor provides a mix of custodial, grounds, maintenance, and operational support. This code carries a high revenue size standard, so larger bundled contracts often land here.
- 561730Landscaping Services. Grounds maintenance, mowing, turf and tree care, and snow removal. Frequently appears alongside janitorial work in grounds-and-custodial bundles.
- 561740Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning. Specialty floor-care and deep-cleaning contracts, often as standalone or task-order work.
- 561790Other Services to Buildings & Dwellings. Window cleaning, pressure washing, gutter cleaning, and chimney or duct cleaning that does not fit the narrower codes.
- 561710Exterminating & Pest Control. Pest, rodent, and termite control, frequently rolled into larger facilities-management awards.
- 238220Plumbing, Heating & Air-Conditioning Contractors. The trades NAICS that shows up when a facilities contract is weighted toward HVAC and mechanical O&M rather than cleaning.
Choosing the right primary code matters. A firm that does custodial plus grounds plus light maintenance may be better positioned under 561210 (Facilities Support Services) to capture bundled awards, even though most of its day-to-day work looks like 561720 janitorial. Use our free NAICS Finder to confirm the codes — and size standards — that fit your business best.
Set-Asides Are Heavy in This Category
Facilities and janitorial work is labor-driven, locally performed, and well-suited to small businesses — which is exactly why federal agencies set so much of it aside. If you hold a socioeconomic certification, this category is one of the most accessible ways to win recurring government contracts. The set-asides you will encounter most often include:
- •SDVOSB. Service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses are heavily represented in custodial and facilities awards, particularly across VA medical centers and Department of Defense installations. See our SDVOSB contracts guide.
- •8(a). The SBA 8(a) Business Development Program supports many janitorial and facilities firms through sole-source and competitive set-asides — a common entry point because contracting officers can award recurring custodial work directly to a single 8(a) firm. Read the 8(a) program guide.
- •HUBZone. Because facilities work is performed on-site, HUBZone firms — based in historically underutilized business zones — are a natural fit for cleaning and grounds contracts near those zones, where the location-based price evaluation preference can be decisive.
- •WOSB / EDWOSB. Women-owned and economically disadvantaged women-owned small business set-asides also appear in this space. See the WOSB guide.
- •Total small business set-asides. Even without a socioeconomic certification, a large share of janitorial and facilities solicitations are reserved for small businesses generally, because the work fits comfortably under the size standards.
A few facilities solicitations carry no set-aside restriction at all and are open to every qualified bidder. The practical takeaway: do not filter your search so narrowly that you miss open-to-all opportunities you could legitimately win. Take the Set-Aside Quiz to see which programs you may qualify for before you start bidding.
What Makes Facilities Contracts Different
Janitorial and facilities contracts are services contracts, which means most fall under the Service Contract Act (SCA). The SCA requires contractors to pay wage-determination minimums and fringe benefits set by the Department of Labor for each labor category and locality. Before you price a bid, pull the applicable wage determination — it often drives the largest line item in your cost build-up, and bids that ignore it lose money or get rejected.
These contracts are also performance-driven. Most use a Performance Work Statement (PWS) with a Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP), so the agency inspects against measurable standards rather than dictating exactly how you clean. Strong past performance and a credible quality-control plan frequently matter as much as price.
Finally, transitions matter. Because the same building is re-bid every few years, the incumbent has real advantages — established staffing, equipment on-site, and a known relationship with the contracting officer. Knowing who holds the current award, what they are paid, and when the contract recompetes is the single most useful piece of intelligence when you are trying to displace an incumbent or defend your own work.
State, Local, and County Demand Is Enormous
Federal buyers are only part of the picture. School districts, community colleges, universities, county facilities, city halls, transit authorities, courthouses, libraries, and public hospitals all buy janitorial and facilities services on recurring cycles — and the combined volume of state and local custodial spending dwarfs many federal categories. For a local cleaning or grounds company, the nearest school district or county complex is often a larger, easier opportunity than any federal solicitation.
The catch is that state and local opportunities are radically fragmented. There is no single SAM.gov for them. Each state, county, and large city runs its own procurement portal, with its own registration, its own posting format, and its own bid calendar. Tracking even a handful of nearby jurisdictions by hand is a daily chore that is easy to let slip.
This is where GovSentry's coverage matters most. We monitor 100+ procurement portals across all 50 states plus DC, alongside the federal sources — so a janitorial or facilities firm can see local, county, and state opportunities in the same place as federal ones, matched to the NAICS codes and locations you actually serve.
How to Find Matching Facilities Opportunities
Federal janitorial and facilities solicitations are posted on SAM.gov, where you can filter by NAICS code and set-aside type. But the manual approach has two weaknesses for this category: SAM.gov only covers federal work, and facilities opportunities are time-sensitive — a custodial recompete you spot late may already be too far along to win. GovSentry is built to close both gaps.
- ✓AI opportunity discovery and matching. Set your janitorial and facilities NAICS codes (561720, 561210, 561730, and related), your service area, and your set-aside status. GovSentry surfaces matching opportunities from SAM.gov and the 100+ state and local portals — across more than 137,000 federal opportunities tracked.
- ✓Daily digest and real-time alerts. Get a daily summary of new facilities solicitations plus instant alerts on high-value opportunities, so a base operations or multi-site custodial contract never slips past you.
- ✓Incumbent and award research. Drawing on 40,000+ analyzed federal awards plus USAspending data, see who holds the current custodial or facilities contract, the award value, and the agencies buying what you sell — essential for pricing a competitive bid against an incumbent.
- ✓Pipeline and win/loss tracking. Manage every facilities bid through a Kanban pipeline and record outcomes, so you learn which agencies, set-asides, and price points actually convert for your firm.
- ✓SAM.gov expiry reminders. Facilities firms re-bid constantly, and a lapsed SAM.gov registration can knock you out of an award you already won. GovSentry reminds you before your registration expires.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find government cleaning contracts for bid in my state?
Search SAM.gov for federal cleaning and facilities notices, then search the procurement portals used by your state, counties, cities, and school districts. The free finder above is preloaded with NAICS 561720, 561210, and 561730 so you can choose a state or search nationwide and count current SAM.gov matches.
Which NAICS code should a cleaning company use for government contracts?
For pure interior cleaning, 561720 (Janitorial Services) is the anchor code. If you also provide grounds, maintenance, or operate an entire site under one contract, 561210 (Facilities Support Services) may capture more bundled awards. Most facilities firms register several related codes and pick a primary that best matches their largest revenue line. Our NAICS Finder can help you decide.
Do I need a set-aside certification to win janitorial contracts?
No. Many janitorial and facilities solicitations are total small business set-asides or fully open to all bidders, so a socioeconomic certification is not required. That said, certifications like SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, and WOSB are common in this category and can meaningfully reduce your competition.
What labor rates should I use in a federal janitorial bid?
For a covered federal service contract over $2,500, use the wage determination incorporated into the solicitation and include the required wages and fringe benefits for the labor categories and locality. Verify the current solicitation documents before finalizing your price.
Can a predecessor union agreement affect a janitorial recompete?
Yes. Under Service Contract Act Section 4(c), a successor contractor may have to pay service employees at least the wages and fringe benefits in the predecessor contractor's collective bargaining agreement. Review the solicitation and incorporated agreement because it can materially change labor cost.
Are state and local janitorial contracts worth pursuing?
For most local facilities companies, yes — often more so than federal work. School districts, counties, and cities buy enormous volumes of custodial and grounds services close to home. The hurdle is that these opportunities are scattered across hundreds of separate portals, which is precisely the fragmentation GovSentry consolidates by covering 100+ state and local procurement portals.
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