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The government solicitations we hold open in California, listed free, soonest deadline first — buyer, solicitation number, closing date, and a link through to the government's own posting. No account and no form in the way.

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Nothing open in California at the moment

We hold no open solicitations for California right now. That is a real answer rather than a loading failure: the feed was read, and nothing in it for California has a deadline still ahead. Postings arrive daily, and the trades we cover are listed below — work outside them never enters the feed at all.

Two things worth doing meanwhile: search the open bid feed — federal work is open to bidders from any state — and get your SAM.gov registration sorted with the free checker below, because that is what takes the weeks.

Who has been winning this work in California

Californiaaward history →

2,076,149 federal contract awards for work performed in California are on file, measured August 21, 2026. The contractors below hold the largest totals among them. Before you spend a fortnight on a proposal, it is worth knowing whether the incumbent is a two-truck outfit or a company with a decade on the contract — and whether your better move is bidding against them or subcontracting to them.

ContractorAwardsTotal awarded
1HEALTH NET FEDERAL SERVICES, LLCF7NGF6NJFB9615$60,407,661,7386.6% of total
2LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPCQWLW9XRQTH5169$59,590,342,5486.5% of total
3THE BOEING COMPANYUEGFHX6R6KJ1123$47,008,406,7745.2% of total
4CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYYC1YP79BFD191,865$44,721,569,1694.9% of total
5LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLCPM52LCJH72T93$41,316,925,9534.5% of total
6THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAPKK5TD16N4H18$37,878,976,7694.2% of total
7GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.ZH4NVFG3Z526646$32,814,738,2253.6% of total
8NATIONAL STEEL AND SHIPBUILDING COMPANYQ85KVUK3JBF583$19,425,681,2122.1% of total
9NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONLALWKM623MU7415$19,053,515,6212.1% of total
10NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONVSBAFMDKTWL4157$18,656,851,5092.0% of total
11THE AEROSPACE CORPORATIONYA8LJBJCND19534$17,846,936,9542.0% of total
12THE BOEING COMPANYM8JLMEHJADQ5258$17,222,951,4581.9% of total
13THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYHJD6G4D6TJY5190$15,474,921,6351.7% of total
14RAYTHEON COMPANYNBSLHP77ZJQ1596$12,904,524,7871.4% of total
15SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.C6M7C2FLKER5166$12,089,128,2611.3% of total
16MCKESSON CORPORATIONS1RUKWWRYFL65,963$11,056,484,3901.2% of total
17LOCKHEED MISSILES & SPACE COMPYVH9AL7JT6Y37$10,983,243,6561.2% of total
18NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPJRVLDEXMYDK8178$10,193,127,2341.1% of total
19QTC MEDICAL SERVICES INCGN8YP96TMPK678$10,026,818,1611.1% of total
20THE BOEING COMPANYM6BRZ1FHEZQ138$8,367,245,9690.9% of total

Recently started work in California

The most recent awards on file by period-of-performance start date. Each card links to the same award on USAspending.gov so you can check the figures against the government's own record.

  • TECHNICAL COMMUNITIES, INC.

    $7,029

    Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency

    334515 · INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURING FOR MEASURING AND TESTING ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRICAL SIGNALS

    Place of performance
    SAN MATEO, CA
    Work started
    May 10, 2032
    Through
    Jun 28, 2032
    Contract
    SPMYM223P1432
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • SERGENTS MECHANICAL SYSTEMS INC

    $5,000

    Department of Defense · Department of the Navy

    236220 · COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

    Place of performance
    SAN DIEGO, CA
    Work started
    Sep 13, 2031
    Through
    Sep 13, 2031
    Contract
    N6247323F4627
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • AURORA SYSTEMS CONSULTING INC

    $201,960

    Department of Defense · Department of the Navy

    541519 · OTHER COMPUTER RELATED SERVICES

    Place of performance
    TORRANCE, CA
    Work started
    Sep 13, 2028
    Through
    Sep 12, 2030
    Contract
    N6832224FD005
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • EMPIRE EQUIPMENT SERVICE, INC.

    $45,872,420

    Department of Defense · Department of the Army

    237990 · OTHER HEAVY AND CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION

    Place of performance
    TEMECULA, CA
    Work started
    Jul 10, 2028
    Through
    Dec 15, 2028
    Contract
    W912PL25C0020
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • HOLITNA CONSTRUCTION, LLC

    $19,048,830

    Department of Defense · Department of the Army

    337127 · INSTITUTIONAL FURNITURE MANUFACTURING

    Place of performance
    SAN DIEGO, CA
    Work started
    Feb 15, 2028
    Through
    Feb 15, 2028
    Contract
    W9127S25CA008
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

    $173,715,980

    Department of Defense · Department of the Air Force

    481212 · NONSCHEDULED CHARTERED FREIGHT AIR TRANSPORTATION

    Place of performance
    HAWTHORNE, CA
    Work started
    Jan 13, 2028
    Through
    Jun 11, 2028
    Contract
    FA881126FB004
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • CANYON CONSULTING, LLC

    $31,233,651

    Department of Defense · Department of the Air Force

    541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)

    Place of performance
    EL SEGUNDO, CA
    Work started
    Oct 4, 2027
    Through
    Oct 4, 2027
    Contract
    FA945322C0011
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • GHOSTROCK SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT, LLC

    $629,825

    Department of Defense · Department of the Navy

    336611 · SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRING

    Place of performance
    SAN DIEGO, CA
    Work started
    Apr 19, 2027
    Through
    Apr 19, 2027
    Contract
    N5523626F0183
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

How to read a California bid list

The list above is inventory, not opportunity. Most of it is not for you, and the fastest contractors in California are the ones who work out which rows to ignore in the first thirty seconds rather than the first week.

Start with the closing date. A solicitation you have only just found that closes inside two weeks usually belongs to whoever has been tracking it since the pre-solicitation notice — worth chasing only when the work is small, repetitive, and priced on rates you already have. Then read the set-aside. A contract reserved for 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB or SDVOSB firms is closed to you unless you hold that certification, and there is no proposal quality that fixes it; this is still one of the most common ways a perfectly capable bidder is thrown out on a technicality. Then look for a mandatory site visit, because it is a date rather than a document, and missing it disqualifies you on the jobs where it applies.

What survives those three cuts deserves the statement of work read properly — not the title, which is often written for a filing system rather than a bidder. Find the bonding and insurance requirements before you price anything: a bid bond you cannot obtain ends the conversation whatever your number is. And check who holds the work today, which is what the award history on this site is for.

None of it matters if you are not registered. A federal award needs an active SAM.gov registration with a Unique Entity ID, and California state and local buyers have their own registration on top of that. Both are free, both take longer than you expect, and both are worth finishing before the solicitation you want appears rather than after.

Where this list comes from

Source.
Federal solicitations published on SAM.gov, and state solicitations from the Texas Electronic State Business Daily. Both are public records, read directly from the issuing portal. We are not reselling another vendor's feed, and each row opens the solicitation's own page here, which carries the source's link back to the original posting wherever the source published one — so you can check what we say against it.
What counts as open.
A solicitation is listed here while it is marked open AND its response deadline is still ahead. Source systems rarely flip a posting's status when it closes, so the deadline is what we go on — which is why nothing on this page has already expired.
Scope.
This is not every government bid in California. Both of our sources are filtered on the way in to the trades this site covers — construction and janitorial work, 20 six-digit NAICS codes between them — so a solicitation outside those codes never enters the feed and cannot appear below. What a page shows is capped as well: the rows are the soonest-closing of what we hold, with any others in the open feed. Treat it as a floor under the market rather than a measure of it.
Deadlines.
Each deadline is shown in the time zone the issuing portal publishes it in — Central for the Texas ESBD, the place-of-performance zone for a SAM.gov notice. Where we cannot establish the zone we show the date with no time rather than a time that might be wrong by hours.
Missing values.
Where a posting records no buyer, no NAICS code or no estimated value, the cell is left empty rather than filled in. A blank here means the source did not say.

California government bids — common questions

Is the California bid list free?
Yes. Nothing on it sits behind a form. Each row carries its deadline, its buying agency and its solicitation number and opens the solicitation's own page here — no account to make, no form in the way and no download to request. The page is capped rather than gated: where we hold anything for it, it shows the rows closing soonest, and any others are in the open feed, which is free to search too. The deep workup on an individual solicitation — what disqualifies bidders, what bonding is required, what the set-aside means for you — is the part we charge for, and it is published for specialty-trade construction and janitorial and facilities services. A solicitation outside those industries still gets its public record here (title, buyer, deadline, solicitation number and a link to the original posting) with no workup attached and nothing to buy.
What kind of California contracts are on this list?
This is not every government bid in California. Both of our sources are filtered on the way in to the trades this site covers — construction and janitorial work, 20 six-digit NAICS codes between them — so a solicitation outside those codes never enters the feed and cannot appear below. What a page shows is capped as well: the rows are the soonest-closing of what we hold, with any others in the open feed. Treat it as a floor under the market rather than a measure of it.
Who currently wins government work in California?
Across the federal contract awards on file for work performed in California, HEALTH NET FEDERAL SERVICES, LLC holds the largest total — 15 awards. That is a ranking of the records we hold rather than of every contractor in the state, and it is worth reading before you bid: the incumbent on a recompete is who you are actually competing with, and on a large job they are often who you should be calling about subcontracting instead.
Do I have to be based in California to bid?
No. Federal solicitations are open to any business with an active SAM.gov registration wherever it is headquartered, and the state shown here is the place of performance — where the work happens. Being local genuinely helps on mobilization cost and on site visits, and some state and local solicitations do apply residency or local preference, but the federal ones on this list do not.
What do I need before I can bid on these?
An active SAM.gov registration with a Unique Entity ID is the baseline for anything federal, it is free, and it takes longer than most contractors expect — start it before you find a bid you want. Then check the set-aside on the solicitation itself: if it is reserved for 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB or SDVOSB firms and you are not certified, no proposal will change that. Our free checkers cover both in a couple of minutes.

Be told when new work lands

Sam emails you a welcome note now and a free digest of the new solicitations that land each week. It is not narrowed to California: where we know your trade you get that trade's new postings, and otherwise a capped cross-trade digest — so this page stays the place to check California on its own.

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Nothing here is behind the form

Each row above shows its deadline, its buying agency and its solicitation number, and opens the solicitation's own page here — which carries the link back to the government's posting wherever the source published one. There is no download to request and nothing withheld for an address. The page is capped rather than gated: it lists the rows closing soonest, and any others we hold are in the open feed, which is free to search as well. The email is for the next ones, not for these.

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