Voice of America

The US Agency for Global Media Voice of America is a civilian independent agency that contracts for international broadcasting content, services, and media-related support to advance U.S. foreign policy messaging. Voice of America procures contracts across its broadcasting and digital media operations, administered principally through its own contracting machinery rather than a centralized civilian acquisition office.

Voice of America has awarded 31,187 contracts since 2006, accumulating $779.9 million in combined potential value with $716 million obligated (92% of potential value). Activity has declined sharply in recent years: the agency awarded 523 contracts in 2022, 474 in 2023, 422 in 2024, and only 38 in 2025, with 72 awards recorded so far in 2026. The most recent award closed on September 28, 2026.

The contractor base is highly fragmented by count but extremely concentrated by value. Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees dominate award volume across the top five primes by count, representing 69% of recent awards, though individual foreign-awardee cohorts are grouped rather than named as discrete vendors. Among primes reportable by name, Paydesk LIMITED leads with 159 awards valued at $25.2 million combined potential. The Associated Press and Glimmer Technologies Inc. follow with $11.5 million and $8.5 million combined potential respectively. However, the top five primes account for only 8% of combined potential value across recent awards, reflecting a market where dollar-reported contracts are distributed across a long tail of 2,270 distinct primes. This distribution pattern suggests Voice of America conducts substantial volume through foreign vendor networks, purchase orders, and media-services contracts where individual transactional values are modest.

Set-asides are minimal: 99% of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small-business set-asides total 299 awards (1% of portfolio), dominated by Total Small Business vehicles; 8(a) sole-source, woman-owned small business, competitive 8(a), HUBZone, and service-disabled veteran-owned small business awards each number fewer than six awards across the portfolio history.

Voice of America's portfolio reflects its mission-critical reliance on foreign media correspondents, content producers, and international-service vendors whose contributions cannot be fulfilled through domestic small-business carve-outs. The sharp decline in award volume since 2024 may signal budget constraints, consolidation of procurement into multi-year IDIQs or BPAs, or shift toward modification activity against existing contracts — a pattern common in foreign-service broadcasting work. No recent contract opportunities are recorded in the source data.