How to find out who holds a government contract

County contracts, in four steps

1. Find the contract on the county's contracts list. Search for the work ("snow", "landscap", "mowing"). In Montgomery County, MD that's the contracts list. The row names the contractor, the end date and the date it can be extended to.
2. Note the solicitation number on that row. That's the bid the contract came from.
3. Open the bid tab for that number. In Montgomery County it's on the bid tab index. It lists every bidder's total for each group or area.
4. Match the group or area named in the contract's title. One bid often becomes several contracts, one per group or area, and each joins only to its own rows.

Only an Invitation for Bid (IFB) gets a tab. If the contract came from an RFP, the record names the holder but there are no bid totals to compare.

A worked example

The county's contracts list names Professional Hispanic Contractors, Inc. as the contractor on contract 1137083, "Snow Removal at County Facilities- Areas 6 and 7". The record's end date is 31 Oct 2027, with no further extension listed. The solicitation number on that row is 1116561, and that one bid became five county contracts on this week's list.

On the tab for bid 1116561, Professional Hispanic Contractors, Inc.'s totals against the lowest bid on each of its rows:

• "Total Aggregate Amount Area 6": $75,770. Lowest: Burgos Contractors, LLC, $66,861.
• "Total Aggregate Amount Area 7": $77,120. Lowest: Burgos Contractors, LLC, $67,750.

Snow Removal at County Facilities- Areas 6 and 7

Montgomery County, Maryland: Department of General Services

Local small business reserve (LSBRP): only county-certified local small businesses could bid

Contractor on the county record

Professional Hispanic Contractors, Inc.

End date on the record

31 Oct 2027

Can be extended to

No further extension listed

Contract · bid

1137083 · 1116561

Professional Hispanic Contractors, Inc. is listed by Montgomery County as the contractor on contract 1137083, "Snow Removal at County Facilities- Areas 6 and 7". The county's contract record lists 31 Oct 2027 as its end date, with no further extension listed. The county's solicitation record for 1116561 says "Reserved for the Local Small Business Reserve Program". On bid 1116561 (Areas 6 and 7), Total Aggregate Amount Area 6: Professional Hispanic Contractors, Inc.'s bid total was $75,770, against Burgos Contractors, LLC's $66,861, Kiara's Landscaping Inc.'s $79,145, Earn Contractors, Inc.'s $82,480, Mas Natural Restoration, Inc.'s $106,710 and 2 more; Total Aggregate Amount Area 7: Professional Hispanic Contractors, Inc.'s bid total was $77,120, against Burgos Contractors, LLC's $67,750, Kiara's Landscaping Inc.'s $81,555, Earn Contractors, Inc.'s $84,200, Mas Natural Restoration, Inc.'s $107,980 and 2 more.

Bid 1116561, Total Aggregate Amount Area 6, as tabulated

Bidder	Bid total
Burgos Contractors, LLC	$66,861
Professional Hispanic Contractors, Inc. holder	$75,770
Kiara's Landscaping Inc.	$79,145
Earn Contractors, Inc.	$82,480
Mas Natural Restoration, Inc.	$106,710
K.E.S. Contracting LLC	$172,010
CT Stanley & Son Inc	$200,500

The holder was not the lowest bid on this row (the tab doesn't say why).

Bid 1116561, Total Aggregate Amount Area 7, as tabulated

Bidder	Bid total
Burgos Contractors, LLC	$67,750
Professional Hispanic Contractors, Inc. holder	$77,120
Kiara's Landscaping Inc.	$81,555
Earn Contractors, Inc.	$84,200
Mas Natural Restoration, Inc.	$107,980
K.E.S. Contracting LLC	$162,270
CT Stanley & Son Inc	$177,300

The holder was not the lowest bid on this row (the tab doesn't say why).

So the firm holding it was not the lowest bid. That's common: on 7 of 11 Montgomery County grounds and snow contracts, the firm holding it was not the lowest bidder. The bid tab doesn't say why. Group splits and award rules decide who gets what. We show who holds the contract and who bid what, and never guess the reason.

Federal contracts

• USAspending.gov. Search awards by place of performance and NAICS 561730 (landscaping services). Each award shows the recipient, federal obligations to date and the current period of performance.
• Read those fields carefully. Obligations to date grow as option years are funded, so they aren't what the contract will total. The end date is usually just the current option period. The recipient name is USAspending's, and can differ from the company's legal name.
• SAM.gov. Contract Opportunities has open bids and award notices. An award notice names the awardee and the award number, which you can often match to the award ID on USAspending.
• Check the competition fields before you plan on the next round. Set-aside, AbilityOne and sole-source awards, and orders under an existing contract, aren't open to every firm. In this week's Montgomery feed, federal grounds, tree and snow contracts: 13 open to bid: 2 open, 11 small-business set-asides. A small-business set-aside is how a small firm bids, so set-asides are counted, each with a line that says who could bid. Not open to bid: 21 (14 sole source, 6 orders under existing contracts, 1 AbilityOne): listed apart, never counted.

Ways to find who holds a contract

Where the holder of a grounds or snow contract shows up

Where to look	Price	Tells you	Leaves to you
County contracts list and bid tabs	$0	Holder and end dates; every bidder's total	Joining the two by bid number and area
USAspending.gov	$0	Federal recipient, obligations to date, current period	Options, set-asides, where the work really is
SAM.gov	$0	Open federal bids; award notices	Matching notices to awards
HigherGov	$500/yr, Starter (1 user) vendor's own page	Federal, state and local opportunities and awards	Not checked for county grounds tabs
GovSpend	$11,576/yr median Vendr purchase data, Feb 2026	Who holds contracts and renewal timing, per its site	Not checked
rebiddate	$249/month per metro 14-day free trial, no card	Holder, every bid as tabulated, end dates, with the record linked	Anything outside one metro and grounds, tree and snow work

Where rebiddate falls short

• One metro today. In Montgomery County, MD we read the county government's records only. Not Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery Parks (M-NCPPC), WSSC, Rockville or Gaithersburg: they buy on their own. Outside the Washington metro you get federal sites only, labelled as such.
• No tab, no bid totals. One of the 13 county contracts on this week's list has no bid tab we can join (a contract let through an RFP gets none): contract 1036842, held by Ruppert Landscape, LLC. There we show the holder and the end date only.
• No bid documents, no bid submission. Those stay on the county's pages and on BidNet Direct, where Montgomery County hosts its formal bids.
• Thin weeks are normal. This week the Montgomery feed has no open grounds, tree or snow bids. Most weeks, the end-date list is the news.
• We haven't tried every tool named here. Where a cell says "not checked", we mean it.

Sources: dataMontgomery: Contracts (vmu2-pnrc) (government page) · dataMontgomery: Bid Tabulation View (j9m9-iahn) (government page) · dataMontgomery: Solicitations (eeq6-nnwe) (government page)

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13 Montgomery County grounds and snow contracts reach their listed end date by 31 Oct 2027.

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