Investigative and Enforcement Services

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services Investigative and Enforcement Services is a civilian sub-agency that procures support services for regulatory compliance, investigative operations, and enforcement activities across the USDA's plant and animal health mission.

The sub-agency has awarded 519 federal contracts since 2006, with combined potential value of $32.9 million and $31.5 million obligated to date (96% of potential value). Contract activity has remained steady in recent years: 16 awards in 2022, 24 in 2023, 25 in 2024, 28 in 2025, and 1 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent award closed on May 15, 2026. A total of 209 distinct prime contractors have been awarded contracts across the portfolio lifetime.

Competitive concentration over the last five years is highly fragmented by value despite moderate concentration by award count. The top five primes by award count—Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. (17 awards), Crystal Clean, LLC (15 awards), Smartnet, Inc. (10 awards), Arcwood Environmental, LLC (10 awards), and Human Technology Inc. (8 awards)—account for 63 percent of recent awards but only a small fraction of reported potential value. By dollar weight, Smartnet, Inc. leads with $715 thousand across 10 awards, followed by Human Technology Inc. ($549 thousand, 8 awards) and FAM International Logistics Inc. ($371 thousand, 2 awards); these top three cover only 6 percent of combined potential value over the window. The remaining primes are spread across a large long tail, indicating that no single contractor or small cohort dominates the agency's spending.

The set-aside mix is heavily skewed toward open competition: 469 awards (90 percent) carry no set-aside designation. Small business awards account for 7 percent of volume, with the remainder split among 8(a) sole source (1 percent), small-business reserves (1 percent), and service-disabled veteran-owned small business (1 percent).

No recent contract opportunities are recorded in the source data. The source contains no grant-award or grant-opportunity activity against this sub-agency.