Trade Missions And Shows

The Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service Trade Missions And Shows, a civilian sub-agency within USDA, procures logistics, accommodations, and event-support services for international agricultural trade promotion activities. The office transacts through a small, specialized vendor base to execute trade shows, missions, and market-development events overseas and domestically.

The agency has awarded 24 federal contracts totaling $3.7 million in combined potential value since 2020, with activity concentrated in 2022 (13 awards). Recent cadence shows 2 awards in 2023, 5 in 2025, and 1 year-to-date in 2026. All $3.7 million in potential value has been obligated. Among the most recent five years of awards, 14 percent carry no reported potential value, typical of Schedule task orders, BPA calls, or below-threshold purchase orders that lack dollar reporting in source data.

The competitive landscape is highly concentrated: over the last five years, miscellaneous foreign awardees and undisclosed foreign contractors dominate the award count with 11 combined awards out of 21 recorded awards (95 percent of recent award volume), though specific vendor identities are not disclosed in source data. Named domestic vendors include Sopexa Hong Kong LIMITED (4 awards, $256 thousand combined potential value), Basic Overnight Quarters LLC (4 awards, $309 thousand combined potential value), and Kallman Worldwide Inc. (1 award, $320 thousand combined potential value). Eight distinct prime contractors have received awards across the portfolio lifetime. Ninety-six percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; the remaining four percent are held by undisclosed awardees.

No recent federal contract opportunities are recorded against the agency. No federal grant activity is present in the portfolio.