Texas Animal Health Commission

Texas Animal Health Commission, a U.S. state government agency headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a recipient of federal cooperative agreements and grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), performing animal disease surveillance, livestock traceability, cattle fever tick eradication, and emergency disease response across Texas with no subcontractors. TAHC competes exclusively under non-set-aside federal funding and has built a specialized footprint almost entirely within APHIS-Veterinary Services cooperative agreements under CFDA 10.025 (Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program).

TAHC's federal recipient portfolio centers on five core capability areas: livestock disease surveillance and response across avian, cattle, swine, equine, and small ruminant commodities; animal disease traceability infrastructure including electronic identification tag systems and database operations; cattle fever tick eradication and wildlife exclusion fencing across the Texas-Mexico border region; emergency disease response coordination and field operations during foreign animal disease outbreaks; and secure food supply planning education for Texas producers and accredited veterinarians. Representative recent awards include a $1.74 million cooperative agreement (April 2026–March 2027) supporting comprehensive disease surveillance and monitoring for four livestock commodity groups; a $445,104 agreement (April 2026–March 2027) funding electronic animal identification infrastructure, tag readers, and traceability exercises across Texas; a $440,715 agreement (April 2026–March 2027) for construction and repair of eight-foot wildlife exclusion fencing at five locations in Willacy and Cameron counties to prevent cattle fever tick host animals from spreading disease; and a $350,000 agreement (April 2026–March 2027) for systematic premises identification, livestock and wildlife inspection, and treatment of infested properties across six Texas counties under cattle fever tick quarantine zones.

Customer concentration is extreme: APHIS accounts for all 157 awards in TAHC's recent footprint, split between APHIS's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (138 awards) and Veterinary Services division (17 awards, $20.6 million combined potential value). This singular-customer posture reflects TAHC's statutory role as Texas's state animal health authority executing federal disease prevention programs under cooperative agreement rather than through competitive federal contracting. TAHC operates across three named blanket purchase agreements with APHIS but predominantly via direct cooperative awards. Activity has remained stable at five to six awards annually over the past five years, with six awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined obligated dollars ($75.5 million) substantially exceed combined potential value ($20.6 million), indicating mature, multi-year funding relationships with consistent invoice patterns. TAHC holds no prime federal contracts, no seats on GWACs or government-wide IDIQs, and no subcontractor relationships in the federal space; the agency operates exclusively as a grant recipient performing regulatory and surveillance work mandated by federal animal health law.