Indiana government surplus auctions

Indiana sells its state surplus on GovDeals. The Indiana Department of Administration (IDOA) lists general surplus there, and State Fleet Services sells the state's vehicles. Universities, cities and a few remarketers sell alongside it. We tracked 6,423 Indiana auctions with a confirmed result from May 22 to October 31, 2026, and most of them were small-ticket: the median winning bid was $56.

How the State of Indiana sells surplus

IDOA State and Federal Surplus handles property state agencies no longer need. State agencies get first pick, then local governments, and whatever is left goes to the public. For the public, IDOA says non-vehicle items are sold in online auctions on GovDeals. Vehicles go through State Fleet Services, which also sells on GovDeals (113 sold lots in our data).

IDOA's public sales page gives the pickup point for its auctions as the surplus warehouse at 601 W. McCarty St., Suite 100, in Indianapolis, with set payment and pickup hours. Check those hours and your auction's removal deadline before you bid, because pickup windows are short.

Indiana also sells surplus real estate separately, and some of it shows up on GovDeals as land listings. Real estate is left out of the numbers below.

Indiana on GovDeals: the numbers

Every GovDeals auction with an Indiana pickup location that closed from May 22, 2026 to October 31, 2026 with a confirmed result:

Indiana's GovDeals market runs on coins and small lots

Coins are the biggest category in Indiana by a wide margin: 896 coin collections and 877 coin, currency and precious-metal lots sold, together 29% of every sold Indiana lot. Coin collections went for a median $25 with 5 bidders, well under the national $52. Books and manuals sold for a median $3. The state's own Indiana State Surplus account sold 965 lots for $271,319 in winning bids.

Vehicles are scarce here. Only 94 cars sold, but they drew a crowd: a median of 32 bidders against 27 across GovDeals, for a median winning bid of $1,815. Laptops drew 18 bidders, the same as the national median, and sold for $168. A third of Indiana auctions (33.8%) came from commercial sellers, led by an army-surplus remarketer (1,102 auctions) and EZ Tankless, Inc. (809).

What sells

The busiest categories (at least 10 sales each), with the GovDeals-wide figure for comparison:

Who sells

Where

By month

* Partial month: our tracking starts May 22, 2026.

What's open right now

353 Indiana lots were open on GovDeals when this page was last updated (Nov 8, 11:23 PM ET). These 8 have the highest current bids among lots closing in the next few days. Bids move fast, so open the listing for the current bid, the pickup address and the removal deadline before you bid.

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  2003 Chevrolet S10 Pickup

  $902current bid

  Beech GroveEnds Nov 9, 6:00 PM ET
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  Cummins Onan Generator

  $625current bid

  IndianapolisEnds Nov 10, 1:00 PM ET
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  Server Equipment (L)

  $582current bid

  IndianapolisEnds Nov 10, 1:00 PM ET
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  HAAS Model CSMD Trainer

  $500current bid

  IndianapolisEnds Nov 11, 3:00 PM ET
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  (135) Boxes of Toner/Ink/Printer Supplies

  $435current bid

  BloomingtonEnds Nov 11, 7:24 PM ET
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  (2) Skutt Automatic Ceramic Kiln KM-1231PK [IU-NW]

  $310current bid

  GaryEnds Nov 11, 10:30 PM ET
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  Lot of (3) Dell Laptops

  $305current bid

  BloomingtonEnds Nov 9, 7:57 PM ET
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  Lot of 15 Delta T574LF-PNWL Single Handle Wall Mount Bathroom Faucet Trim Kits in Polished Nickel

  $260current bid

  IndianapolisEnds Nov 9, 9:00 PM ET

Listings and photos from GovDeals, refreshed every 6 hours. We don't publish resale estimates for individual lots.

Methodology

Our GovDeals figures include every GovDeals auction with an Indiana pickup location that ended from May 1, 2026 through October 31, 2026 and whose outcome GovDeals confirmed by status, bid history or bid count. Lots we couldn't confirm either way are left out, as are real estate and land sales and sellers that sell at a fixed price with no bidding (at least 90% of 20 or more sales with no recorded bid). "All GovDeals" figures use the same rules nationwide over the same dates. "Bidders" is the bid count on the sold lot, which can include several bids from one person, so read it as a measure of how contested a lot was. Category medians are per lot, so a multi-unit lot counts as one sale at its full price. Categories need at least 10 sales. Commercial sellers are businesses and remarketers selling on GovDeals rather than government bodies, using GovDeals' own seller type. We don't show sell-through: before September 2026 our tracking didn't record every unsold auction, so early months would overstate it. We don't publish per-lot resale estimates. Facts about Indiana's own surplus program come from the official sources linked above; programs change, so confirm terms with the agency before you buy.

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