Government Auctions - Government Auctions

Information On Government Auctions

If you look under government auctions on the internet, there is page after page of listings. You can look at a lot of the websites and you find out they are selling catalogues or memberships or some such thing. You can look for a dot gov in the URL. Where do you look for information on all government auctions? This information is listed at the Firstgov.gov website. This site lists the information about government auctions of seized and surplus property, including state and local governments. This one site lists it all.

The categories are Cars and Vehicles, Real Estate for Sale, Sales by Agency, Souvenirs, Books and Gifts for Sales, and Supplies and Equipment for Sale. These are the broad categories of goods available at auction. Looking further under each category gives a further breakdown. So if you look under Real Estate you would find it broken down as Commercial Buildings and Land, Farms and Ranches, Single Family Houses and State and Local Government Sales. The category Single Family Houses has two subcategories, Buy Single Family Homes from the U.S. Government and Single Family Home Sales: Various Federal Agencies. If you look under the latter you will find a list of ten agencies with homes to sell. Each of the agencies explains their purpose and where their auction items came from. For example, if you look at the U.S. Marshals Service you find that the merchandise listed under their auction is forfeited property that the Department of Justice, the DEA, FBI, INS and ATF seized in the course of their law enforcement work.

Their page also tells you where to look for the merchandise that they have for auction.

They have contractors that handle their auctions, some of which are online. You can look at the various sites and see what is being auctioned. You can look at the internet auctions and bid if you want.

You can look through the material at Firstgov.gov and find whatever information you are looking for regarding government auctions. Seized merchandise is mixed with surplus merchandise in some cases. Each agency tells you their purpose and where their auction items came from and what you have to do to see the items and bid on them. Each place will tell you the specifics of their auction regarding terms and conditions, payment, how to bid, etc. For someone who is interest in government auctions, Firstgov.gov is the website they want to look at.