Ohio State Office

The Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service Ohio State Office is a sub-agency under USDA that administers rural housing loan programs and related real estate transactions in Ohio, including property acquisition, disposition, and debt-collection contracting tied to loan servicing and portfolio management.

The Office has awarded 607 federal contracts since 2018, with combined potential value of $1.1 million, all of which has been obligated. Recent activity has declined sharply: the office issued 42 awards in 2020, 88 in 2021, 50 in 2022, 10 in 2023, and 2 in 2024, with the most recent award dated December 2024. The contract portfolio is highly fragmented across 32 distinct prime contractors. Over the last five years, the top five primes by award count — Miles Stephen D (37 awards, $133 thousand), Rieger Gilbert L (18 awards, $65 thousand), Ocheltree Timothy G (12 awards, $38 thousand), Creditors Corporate Asset Recovery, Inc. (10 awards, $26 thousand), and Sims James L (4 awards, $24 thousand) — account for 91 percent of recent awards but only 26 percent of combined potential value, a gap indicating that the majority of the portfolio consists of small-dollar transactions distributed across many vendors. Ninety-two percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; 8 percent are small-business set-asides.

The sharp decline in award velocity since 2021 and the absence of any recorded contract opportunities suggest that active procurement activity at the Ohio State Office has substantially diminished. The portfolio structure — dominated by individual contractors transacting in sub-$10,000 increments — is consistent with routine property-disposition and debt-collection work rather than growth-stage contracting. This activity does not match a typical federal procurement ladder in which new business development builds toward larger opportunities; instead, it reflects operational maintenance of an existing loan portfolio. Pursuit is warranted only if your firm already holds a position in rural housing loan servicing or property disposition in Ohio or is willing to engage directly with USDA Rural Housing Service regional contracting for potential future work.