This federal contract award, identified as AGDPROP160529, was issued by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The $541,884.00 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded to Riceland Foods Inc., a major supplier of rice and rice products, to provide various types of rice commodities including long grain parboiled rice, brown rice, and medium grain rice. The contract has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2016 and does not include a set-aside designation. Riceland, headquartered in Stuttgart, Arkansas, will fulfill the contract requirements from its own facilities, delivering the rice products to multiple locations across the continental United States and occasionally to Puerto Rico. This contract appears to be part of the USDA's efforts to support domestic food assistance programs through the provision of rice commodities.