Federal Cleaning Contracts, Fiscal 2025
What U.S. federal agencies committed to janitorial and building-cleaning contracts in fiscal 2025 (October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025), from the government's own spending records.
By Eddie Okudoh
Updated October 2026
Key findings
- Federal agencies funded 3,623 cleaning contracts worth $1.43 billion in fiscal 2025.
- Most were small. Half were under $32,276 for the year, and 1,588 were under $25,000, most of them for Army buildings, Forest Service offices and GSA federal buildings.
- The money is concentrated. The largest 10% of contracts took 78% of it, and 334 contracts topped $1 million.
- Defense is the biggest buyer: the Army, Navy, Air Force and Defense Health Agency together funded $864.7 million, 60% of the total.
- Hospital and clinic cleaning is a different scale. Its 82 contracts averaged $1.7 million, about 4.6 times the $366,608 average for general janitorial contracts.
- Maryland led the states with $136.8 million across 138 contracts.
By agency
| Agency | Contracts | Funded, FY2025 |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Army | 1,056 | $328.3 million |
| U.S. Navy | 187 | $220.9 million |
| U.S. Air Force | 233 | $212.2 million |
| Defense Health Agency | 51 | $103.3 million |
| Veterans Affairs | 263 | $94.7 million |
| GSA (federal buildings) | 267 | $59.6 million |
| Federal Law Enforcement Training Center | 10 | $49.7 million |
| Federal Aviation Administration | 189 | $46.3 million |
| Customs and Border Protection | 64 | $32.1 million |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation | 8 | $28.1 million |
| Washington Headquarters Services | 8 | $28.0 million |
| National Institutes of Health | 7 | $19.2 million |
Largest contracts
| Agency | Where | Funded, FY2025 |
|---|---|---|
| GSA (federal buildings) | New York, NY | $29.7 million |
| U.S. Navy | Silverdale, WA | $26.9 million |
| U.S. Navy | Bethesda, MD | $26.5 million |
| Federal Law Enforcement Training Center | Brunswick, GA | $17.3 million |
| National Institutes of Health | Bethesda, MD | $17.2 million |
| Defense Health Agencyhospital and clinic cleaning | Fort Bragg, NC | $13.6 million |
| U.S. Army | Huntsville, AL | $13.3 million |
| U.S. Armyhospital and clinic cleaning | Fort Bliss, TX | $12.9 million |
| Washington Headquarters Services | Washington, DC | $12.4 million |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation | Oakton, VA | $11.8 million |
Each amount links to the contract's record on USAspending.gov.
By state
Federal cleaning contracts in every state
| State | Contracts | Funded, FY2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 138 | $136.8 million |
| Virginia | 130 | $124.5 million |
| Texas | 221 | $116.2 million |
| Georgia | 79 | $101.7 million |
| California | 277 | $90.3 million |
| New York | 143 | $73.7 million |
| District of Columbia | 69 | $68.9 million |
| Washington | 213 | $65.5 million |
| Florida | 129 | $61.3 million |
| North Carolina | 92 | $54.0 million |
| Hawaii | 58 | $38.7 million |
| Oklahoma | 73 | $33.8 million |
| Colorado | 97 | $33.7 million |
| Alabama | 32 | $33.5 million |
| New Jersey | 64 | $33.1 million |
| Illinois | 88 | $32.6 million |
| Arizona | 83 | $32.5 million |
| Ohio | 82 | $24.3 million |
| New Mexico | 63 | $23.2 million |
| Alaska | 75 | $22.9 million |
| Pennsylvania | 101 | $20.6 million |
| South Carolina | 40 | $17.9 million |
| Utah | 69 | $17.2 million |
| Kentucky | 30 | $16.5 million |
| Massachusetts | 66 | $12.4 million |
| Louisiana | 40 | $11.1 million |
| Kansas | 93 | $11.0 million |
| Mississippi | 29 | $9.8 million |
| West Virginia | 39 | $9.1 million |
| Nebraska | 29 | $9.0 million |
| Missouri | 80 | $8.8 million |
| Indiana | 53 | $8.6 million |
| Tennessee | 26 | $7.7 million |
| Michigan | 72 | $6.7 million |
| Maine | 19 | $6.6 million |
| Oregon | 94 | $6.0 million |
| North Dakota | 33 | $5.9 million |
| Connecticut | 19 | $5.5 million |
| Wisconsin | 44 | $5.4 million |
| Arkansas | 57 | $5.1 million |
| Rhode Island | 13 | $5.0 million |
| Nevada | 31 | $4.3 million |
| Minnesota | 43 | $4.0 million |
| Idaho | 67 | $3.5 million |
| Montana | 70 | $3.3 million |
| South Dakota | 31 | $3.0 million |
| Delaware | 12 | $2.6 million |
| Wyoming | 47 | $2.5 million |
| New Hampshire | 17 | $2.1 million |
| Iowa | 38 | $1.4 million |
| Vermont | 15 | $0.3 million |
What it means for your building
Federal buyers put the work in writing before they ask for prices: a scope of work, a cleaning schedule, and bids they can compare line by line. The same habits help any building. Our janitorial RFP template follows that format, and the 2026 cleaning cost index shows what routine cleaning costs where you are.
How it's calculated
We took every federal contract transaction under NAICS 561720 (janitorial services) with an action date in fiscal 2025 from USAspending.gov, kept the cleaning work (product and service codes S201 custodial janitorial, Q901 healthcare environmental cleaning and S214 carpet cleaning) performed in the 50 states and DC, and summed each contract's obligations for the year. Contracts with less than $1,000 obligated are left out. An obligation is money committed, so a contract can show a full year's funding at once, or several buildings under one award. The full data (CSV) lists every contract with its agency, place, dates and USAspending record.
Using this data
You're welcome to quote or chart these figures with a link to this page. Suggested citation: Cleaning RFPs, Federal Cleaning Contracts, Fiscal 2025, cleaningrfps.com, October 2026.
Eddie Okudoh compiles the Cleaning RFPs cost index. For figures on an agency or state, or press questions, email press@cleaningrfps.com.
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