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Government contracts for painting in Iowa
A snapshot of open federal, state, and local opportunities in Iowa, updated daily. To search them and get daily matches for your business, sign up free.
About painting contracts in Iowa
Painting contracts in Iowa typically cover interior repaints of office buildings, exterior coatings on military housing, lead-paint abatement at older federal facilities, and parking-lot striping. Federal posts in this category fall under NAICS 238320 (Painting and Wall Covering Contractors), and the bulk of the work flows to DoD housing offices, the GSA Public Buildings Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Most painting awards are small-business set-asides — federal buyers actively want regional shops, not nationwide painting chains.
Iowa currently has 8 open painting contracts in our database, with 8 added in the last 30 days. That's a steady cadence — enough flow to make automated alerting worthwhile rather than manual portal-checking. The most active buyers are City of Davenport (5 open posts) and City of Cedar Rapids (3), with the rest spread across other federal civilian agencies, DoD components, and state and local departments active in Iowa.
Beyond federal opportunities, much of the painting work in Iowa is posted through Iowa Vendor Self-Service (Iowa DAS), with recurring buyers including the Iowa Department of Transportation and Iowa state universities. Iowa runs targeted small-business set-asides for firms certified as TSB (Targeted Small Business) by the Iowa Economic Development Authority. ContractRadar pulls federal postings from SAM.gov alongside state and local feeds so a painting contractor doesn't have to monitor each portal manually.
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On-Call Pavement Coring Services
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