USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Asia And Pacific

The Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service Asia and Pacific is a sub-agency of the USDA that executes agricultural trade and development programs across the Asia-Pacific region, procuring market research, technical assistance, and program-support services to advance U.S. agricultural interests abroad.

Contract activity at the office is minimal and episodic. The agency has awarded 9 federal contracts totaling $2.9 million in combined potential value since 2019, with $1.8 million obligated to date. Award volume was concentrated in 2020 (5 awards) and has since dropped sharply—1 award in 2021, none in 2022, and 2 awards in 2023, the most recent on July 21, 2023. The contractor base is highly fragmented, with 7 distinct prime contractors awarded across the portfolio lifetime and no single prime holding a dominant position. New TECH Solutions, Inc. is the only repeat awardee with 2 contracts valued at $36 thousand combined potential value, covering 100 percent of recent award count but only 1 percent of combined potential value—a signal that contracting volume is distributed across multiple small vendors. The majority of awards (8 of 9, or 89 percent) are unrestricted open competition, with a single small-business set-aside award in the remaining 11 percent.

The office has not issued recent competitive solicitations and shows no active contract opportunities on file. The three-year gap between the most recent award in mid-2023 and the current date indicates the office is not presently procuring services at scale. Any pursuit of this agency should focus on monitoring for future funding announcements rather than responding to open opportunities.