Washington State Office

The Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service Washington State Office is the sub-agency of USDA that administers rural housing programs in Washington State, including loan guarantees, direct lending, and technical assistance for rural home ownership and rental housing development. The office transacts primarily through small-business set-asides, though recent contract activity has declined sharply.

The office has awarded 530 total federal contracts since 2015, with combined potential value of $737 thousand and combined obligations of $736 thousand. Recent activity has slowed considerably: the office closed 80 awards in 2019, then 1 award in 2020, 6 in 2021, 4 in 2022, and 1 in 2023. The most recent recorded award date is September 2023. Of the 5 awards closed in the last five years, 2 carry no reported potential value, a pattern typical of Schedule task orders, BPA calls, or modifications. The contract base spans 45 distinct prime contractors across the portfolio history.

Competitive concentration among recent awardees is highly fragmented: the top five primes by award count account for 100 percent of the 5 recent awards but represent only 5 percent of combined potential value across that window. Eagle Transfer Co Inc. holds 2 of the 5 recent awards ($950 combined potential value), Northwest Movers Central LLC holds 1 award ($25 thousand), NHT Olympia Trs, LLC holds 1 award (potential value not reported), and Promark Technology Inc. holds 1 award ($11 thousand). The remaining 41 primes in the lifetime portfolio are inactive over the last five years.

Set-asides dominate the award mix: 455 of 530 total awards (86 percent) carry Small Business set-aside designations. No set-aside designations account for 72 awards (14 percent), 8(a) sole-source designations account for 1 award, and partial small-business designations account for 2 awards.

Recent contract opportunities and grant opportunities are not recorded against this office in the source data provided.