Office of Congressional Relations

The Department of Agriculture, a cabinet department administering civilian agricultural policy and programs, has awarded only 15 federal contracts since 2003, with minimal recent procurement activity and extremely modest contract values. The department awarded one contract in 2024, one in 2023, three in 2022, two in 2021, and one in 2020, for a combined potential value of $291 thousand across all awards and a combined obligation of $396 thousand. Distinct prime contractors number six across the portfolio history.

Recent contract competition is highly fragmented. Over the last five years, Politico, LLC leads by potential value at $58 thousand across two awards, followed by The Bancorp Bank at $49 thousand (one award) and CQ-Roll Call, Inc. at $41 thousand (two awards). The top three primes together account for 54 percent of combined potential value among recent awards. Merchants Automotive Group, LLC holds one award valued at $9 thousand. The remaining two vendors in the all-time portfolio appear to have received no awards in the last five years.

The vast majority of awards — 14 of 15 across portfolio history — carry no set-aside designation. One award was designated Very Small Business. Contract awards at USDA are almost exclusively open to unrestricted competition, and individual contract values are uniformly small, typically in the tens of thousands of dollars.

No recent federal contract opportunities are recorded against the Department of Agriculture or its descendant offices in the source data.