Information Technology Division

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services Information Technology Division is a civilian sub-agency within USDA that acquires information technology and business services to support APHIS regulatory and marketing operations. The IT Division has awarded 686 contracts cumulatively since 1999, with combined potential value of $95.1 million and $83.5 million obligated to date.

Recent contracting activity has declined sharply. The IT Division awarded 35 contracts in 2021, then dropped to 3 in 2022, 5 in 2023, 7 in 2024, and 4 in 2025 through mid-September. This sharp contraction suggests either a shift toward longer-term vehicles, consolidation of procurement into fewer larger awards, or reduced IT acquisition demand at the sub-agency level. The most recent recorded award closed in September 2025.

The contractor base is highly fragmented by both award count and dollar value. New TECH Solutions, Inc. leads with 6 awards worth $1.3 million combined potential value over the last five years, followed at distance by Govsmart, Inc. (2 awards, $182 thousand) and Quadient, Inc. (2 awards, $13 thousand). The top five contractors account for 62 percent of recent awards by count but only 2 percent of combined potential value, indicating that the largest awards in the portfolio are held by contractors outside the top-five listing. Across the full portfolio history, 216 distinct prime contractors have been awarded, underscoring persistent competition and low incumbent consolidation.

The set-aside mix is dominated by open competition: 87 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small Business set-asides account for 6 percent of awards, 8(a) Sole Source for 5 percent, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business for 2 percent, and HUBZone for less than 1 percent. This open-competition skew, combined with the contractor fragmentation and low recent award volume, suggests limited set-aside opportunity at this sub-agency.

No recent contract opportunities are recorded against the IT Division in the source material. The steep drop in award count and the gap between the most recent award (September 2025) and the current date (October 2026) suggest either a procurement lull or a shift toward vehicles not captured in the agency's historical rollup.