Government contracts for staffing services

Government contracts for staffing services span every level of public buying, from federal task orders down to county and municipal awards. At the federal level the work is concentrated under NAICS 561320 (Temporary Help Services), and the most active customers are the VA, DoD components, and GSA. The same buyer mix repeats year after year, which makes staffing firms a relatively predictable category to bid into once you know where the recurring spend lives.

Across the federal, state, and local sources ContractRadar tracks, there are 187 open staffing services contracts currently posting across 37 states, with 129 added in the last 30 days. That's a steady national cadence — enough flow that automated alerting outperforms manual portal-checking even if you only chase work in two or three states. Nationally, the most active buyers of this work are FOREST SERVICE (10 open posts) and VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF (10); the remainder splits across federal civilian agencies, DoD components, and state and local departments.

The bulk of small-business staffing awards flow through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) and VA T4NG-style vehicles. Beyond federal posts, every state runs its own procurement program with separate registration, certification, and bid-board rules — ContractRadar pulls SAM.gov together with state and local feeds so a staffing firm can monitor every market from one inbox instead of logging into a dozen portals each morning. Drill into any state below to see the open staffing services contracts, top buyers, and posting cadence in that specific market.