Alabama Department Of Agriculture & Industries

Alabama Department Of Agriculture & Industries, a U.S. state government entity and child of the Alabama Department of Public Health, serves as a federal grant recipient (100% of recent awards) across animal health diagnostics, food safety inspection, and plant pest surveillance, with no federal contract prime positions but a dominant role in USDA cooperative agreements. The agency does not compete under set-asides, reflecting its status as a state regulatory authority delivering compliance services rather than a commercial vendor.

ADAI's federal grant footprint centers on animal health laboratory testing and regulatory compliance. The agency holds a $40 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with USDA Veterinary Services (extending through November 2026) that anchors delivery orders for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) testing, foreign animal disease diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic susceptibility testing, and scrapie testing — representative work includes a $50,000 HPAI cattle testing order (April 2024) and a $19,950 scrapie testing order (January 2026). Beyond laboratory diagnostics, ADAI administers cooperative agreements for meat and poultry inspection operations; the largest recent awards include $3.038 million (USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, October 2025) and $2.106 million (USDA Intrastate Meat and Poultry Inspection, October 2025) for statewide inspection programs. Plant health and pest detection work includes commodity surveys for cotton, citrus, grapes, honeybees, imported fire ants, nurseries, and invasive species; representative awards span Specialty Crop Block Grants ($561,371, Agricultural Marketing Service, September 2025) and recurring APHIS cooperative agreements for plant pest surveillance. ADAI also administers federal nutrition and food assistance programs including the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program ($1.382 million, Food and Nutrition Service, October 2025) and the Farm to School Grant Program ($388,570, Child Nutrition Division, May 2026).

Customer concentration reflects heavy reliance on USDA APHIS. The top five funding agencies account for 78% of award volume by count, with USDA Veterinary Services anchoring 19 awards carrying $40.1 million in combined potential value — vastly exceeding the $725 thousand combined value across 20 FDA awards for animal food inspection services. The second-tier agencies — USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Food and Nutrition Service, and Food Safety and Inspection Service — place smaller-dollar cooperative awards at recurring intervals. Activity has remained flat over the past five years (2022–2025 averaging 28–34 awards annually, with 14 awards in 2026 year-to-date). Twenty-three awards with combined potential value of $103 thousand complete within the next twenty-four months, representing routine recompete exposure in plant surveillance and food assistance programs rather than cliff-driven recompete risk.

ADAI operates as a pure grant recipient with no subcontract footprint in the source data. The agency's parent structure—child of the Alabama Department of Public Health—surfaces in some award descriptions but does not materially affect the award characteristics. Work is performed statewide in Alabama and subordinate locations (Auburn, Montgomery, Ames, Iowa) as required by individual grant scope.