Animal Care

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Animal Care is a civilian sub-agency within USDA that procures goods and services to support animal health inspection, care, and regulatory compliance activities. APHIS Animal Care executes contract awards for administrative support, operational services, and specialized technical capabilities aligned with its mission of ensuring humane treatment and monitoring of animals in regulated facilities and activities.

The agency has issued 27 federal contract awards cumulatively since 2010, with a combined award potential value of $9.8 million and combined dollars obligated representing 100 percent of that potential value. Activity has slowed considerably in recent years: the agency awarded 4 contracts in 2019, 5 in 2020, then 2 each in 2021, 2022, and 2023. The most recent recorded award date is July 10, 2023. Across the 22 distinct prime contractors in the portfolio, competitive concentration is highly fragmented; the top five primes by award count each hold only one award, collectively covering 100 percent of recent awards but just 6 percent of combined potential value. Accenture Federal Services LLC leads by potential value at $298 thousand on a single award, followed by Franklin Young International, Incorporated at $239 thousand. Most primes have transacted once or twice with the agency and carry modest ceiling values in the low hundreds of thousands or below.

The set-aside mix shows 93 percent of awards issued without a set-aside designation, while small business set-asides account for 7 percent of awards. No recent federal contract opportunities are recorded against the agency or its descendant offices as of this date.