Commercial Lynks, Inc.

Commercial Lynks, Inc., a minority-owned, Subcontinent Asian American-owned Subchapter S corporation based in Alexandria, Virginia, supplies bulk and packaged agricultural commodities—lentils, peas, beans, sorghum, wheat, corn, and oats—to the Department of Agriculture for domestic and international food assistance programs as a prime contractor on 652 definitive contracts. The company is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and competes across both set-aside and full-and-open procurements, with roughly half its recent awards carrying small business or partial small business designations.

Commercial Lynks operates almost exclusively within USDA, with 98 percent of awards concentrated across five USDA agencies. The Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office dominates the footprint—397 awards (61% of total) valued at $114.9 million—followed by the Foreign Agricultural Service (109 awards, $32.2 million), the Food and Nutrition Service (79 awards, $16.6 million), and smaller allocations to the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office and Specialty Crops Program. All funding flows from USDA; no other federal agencies appear in the award history. The combined potential value across the active portfolio is $181 million with full obligation.

Commercial Lynks' capability set is narrowly specialized: firm fixed-price procurement of specific agricultural commodities in bulk (50-kilogram bags or packaged units) for commodity procurement programs. Representative work spans a $1.6 million sorghum supply contract to the Kansas City Commodity Office (June 2025), a $532 thousand garbanzo bean and split pea contract under a Total Small Business set-aside to the Washington Office (April 2026), a $269 thousand whole green pea contract to the Foreign Agricultural Service (November 2024), and hundreds of smaller definitive contracts for lentils, yellow split peas, wheat, and packaged beans and oats to the Food and Nutrition Service. Place of performance centers on Texas and California distribution points, with deliveries routed to USDA warehouses for domestic and international food assistance distribution.

Activity has declined substantially year over year—30 awards in 2022 to 6 awarded in 2026—but obligated dollars remain consistent because individual contracts carry higher value. The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months shows minimal exposure: only 4 awards totaling $1.1 million face ultimate completion within that window, reflecting the high turnover and short performance schedules characteristic of commodity procurement. The top NAICS codes (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing, Fruit and Vegetable Canning, Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers) and PSC codes (Fruits and Vegetables, Food Oils and Fats) confirm the vendor's pure commodity-supply positioning. Commercial Lynks holds no subcontracting relationships; all 652 awards are prime work. The vendor operates as a bulk agricultural commodity supplier to federal food assistance programs—a narrow, mission-critical niche with concentrated USDA customer dependency.

Commercial Lynks, Inc., (CLI) is an international trading company that has expertise in commodity sourcing, logistics, distribution, and delivery worldwide. CLI has successfully completed 345 government contracts totaling over $100,000,000 by providing bulk agricultural/food products to U.S. Government agencies in support of USAID Food Security. We are able to offer a wide range of food products including: peas, lentils, corn, rice, sorghum, beans, poultry, beef, canned products, frozen products, and bottled products.