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The government solicitations we hold open in Rhode Island, 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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Government bids open in Rhode Island

Open solicitations with a deadline still ahead of them.

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Nothing open in Rhode Island at the moment

We hold no open solicitations for Rhode Island right now. That is a real answer rather than a loading failure: the feed was read, and nothing in it for Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island

Rhode Islandaward history →

40,456 federal contract awards for work performed in Rhode Island 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
1RAYTHEON COMPANYM1BVCGDKJ1L7247$2,548,261,13621.7% of total
2SEACORP, LLCDMPKMH1MFSQ1190$857,523,8747.3% of total
3RITE-SOLUTIONS, INC.VGCPMJFD1NN526$395,271,9953.4% of total
4MCLAUGHLIN RESEARCH CORPORATIONCGBMKJF19GJ154$352,774,5413.0% of total
5MINUTECLINIC, L.L.C.DAZFJEU4NLU32$281,332,3782.4% of total
6SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONMMLKPW9JLX6449$264,103,1652.2% of total
7EDESIA, INC.LYHJE2WJSJM777$205,719,4211.7% of total
8MIKEL INCJDUKDPBD4JT930$189,006,7101.6% of total
9CVS PHARMACY, INCTXNJU9N2PHJ75$185,380,1091.6% of total
10HONEYWELL SAFETY PRODUCTS USA, INC.FKBHDS7BRJF416$169,134,1421.4% of total
11SKANSKA USA CIVIL NORTHEAST INCFJ5FBM811LL31$149,686,8431.3% of total
12DOMESTIC AWARDEES (UNDISCLOSED)KA5HQCLKUVW193$141,081,5211.2% of total
13NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONDJUCEANK2KP47$126,301,5181.1% of total
14LEIDOS, INC.QLNMVC12KWY322$126,176,9191.1% of total
15ADAMS AND ASSOCIATES INCHV9FBNEWXMY93$121,881,8221.0% of total
16SERCO INCDKJ1R5ABCN4822$118,177,2121.0% of total
17GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.SMNWM6HN79X510$105,904,6620.9% of total
18PURVIS SYSTEMS INCPZGKKRM4AK237$102,168,0580.9% of total
19KMS SOLUTIONS, LLCZQ7JL84XKHS37$90,121,1120.8% of total
20CACI, INC. - FEDERALN3PBJAVNKF611$80,182,7290.7% of total

Recently started work in Rhode Island

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.

  • BROWN POINT FACILITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, LLC

    $214,191

    Department of Homeland Security · Federal Emergency Management Agency

    561210 · FACILITIES SUPPORT SERVICES

    Place of performance
    LINCOLN, RI
    Work started
    Sep 29, 2026
    Through
    Sep 28, 2027
    Contract
    70FA5026F00000065
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • MACGREGOR USA INC

    $26,193

    Department of Commerce · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    811310 · COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (EXCEPT AUTOMOTIVE AND ELECTRONIC) REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE

    Place of performance
    NEWPORT, RI
    Work started
    Sep 3, 2026
    Through
    Sep 9, 2026
    Contract
    1305M226F0369
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • GRANOFF REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

    $19,080

    Department of Justice · Offices, Boards and Divisions

    812930 · PARKING LOTS AND GARAGES

    Place of performance
    PROVIDENCE, RI
    Work started
    Sep 1, 2026
    Through
    Aug 31, 2027
    Contract
    15JA7026P00000010
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • ALERT AMBULANCE SERVICE, INC.

    $777,750

    Department of Veterans Affairs

    485991 · SPECIAL NEEDS TRANSPORTATION

    Place of performance
    PROVIDENCE, RI
    Work started
    Sep 1, 2026
    Through
    Aug 31, 2027
    Contract
    36C24126N0780
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • ATT MOBILITY LLC

    $18,600

    Department of Justice · Offices, Boards and Divisions

    517312 · WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS (EXCEPT SATELLITE)

    Place of performance
    PROVIDENCE, RI
    Work started
    Sep 1, 2026
    Through
    Aug 31, 2027
    Contract
    15JA7026F00000006
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • ALFA LAVAL INC

    $11,290

    Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Coast Guard

    332410 · POWER BOILER AND HEAT EXCHANGER MANUFACTURING

    Place of performance
    NEWPORT, RI
    Work started
    Aug 17, 2026
    Through
    Sep 3, 2026
    Contract
    70Z08026PMECP0158
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • HEXAGON MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE, LLC

    $282,098

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    334516 · ANALYTICAL LABORATORY INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURING

    Place of performance
    NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI
    Work started
    Aug 17, 2026
    Through
    Oct 5, 2026
    Contract
    80NSSC26P1155
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

  • NATIONAL LAMINATING, INC

    $134

    General Services Administration · Federal Acquisition Service

    326112 · PLASTICS PACKAGING FILM AND SHEET (INCLUDING LAMINATED) MANUFACTURING

    Place of performance
    RIVERSIDE, RI
    Work started
    Aug 16, 2026
    Through
    Aug 26, 2026
    Contract
    47QSWA26F1RXW
    Check this award on USAspending.gov

How to read a Rhode Island bid list

The list above is inventory, not opportunity. Most of it is not for you, and the fastest contractors in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island. 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.

Rhode Island government bids — common questions

Is the Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island contracts are on this list?
This is not every government bid in Rhode Island. 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 Rhode Island?
Across the federal contract awards on file for work performed in Rhode Island, RAYTHEON COMPANY holds the largest total — 247 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 Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island: 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 Rhode Island 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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