Kansas City Commodity Office

The Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office is a sub-agency within USDA that administers federal commodity contracts and development-assistance grants, primarily supporting agricultural trade, quality assurance, and international agricultural development programs.

On the contract side, the Kansas City Commodity Office has awarded 8,371 contracts totaling $11.4 billion in combined potential value since 2001, with $11.3 billion obligated. Activity has declined sharply in recent years: 533 awards in 2022, 374 in 2023, 291 in 2024, 137 in 2025, and 7 year-to-date in 2026. The competitive landscape among recent primes is fragmented by award count but highly concentrated by value. Over the last five years, Intertek Testing Services (South Africa) (Pty) LTD leads by award count with 185 awards, followed by Abebe Berrou Ayane with 78 and De Lune Corp with 65; these top five primes collectively hold 32 percent of recent awards. By potential value, however, concentration is tight: Archer-Daniels-Midland Company dominates with $449 million across 38 awards, followed by CHS Inc. at $377.8 million across 29 awards; the top five by value represent only 10 percent of combined potential value across the recent window. Set-aside usage is modest—55 percent of awards carry no set-aside, while 32 percent are Partial Small Business; remaining awards are split among Competitive 8(a), HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, and other small-business designations at under 3 percent each.

Grant activity is recent and substantially larger by award volume. The office has awarded 2,124 grants totaling $4.83 billion in federal dollars obligated since 2011, with significant year-to-year volatility: 16 awards in 2022, 138 in 2023, 935 in 2024, 132 in 2025, and 871 year-to-date in 2026. Grant recipients are highly fragmented—the top five recipients by award count hold only 1 percent of recent awards, and the top five by federal dollars hold 9 percent. Lutheran World Relief Inc. leads with 6 awards obligating $111.4 million, followed by Winrock International Institute For Agricultural Development with 5 awards at $66.8 million and Acdi / Voca with 3 awards at $82.3 million. Cooperative Agreements dominate the assistance-type mix at 68 percent of awards, with Project Grants at 18 percent and Formula Grants at 13 percent. The most recent grant award closed on July 24, 2026.

No recent contract opportunities or grant opportunities are recorded in the source data.