County Services Inc.

County Services Inc., a for-profit Texas corporation based in Plainview, competes as a prime contractor exclusively in the open market (no set-asides) to provide bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) sample collection services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The vendor operates three geographically dispersed sample-collection facilities in Clovis, New Mexico; Plainview, Texas; and Stratford, Texas, collecting brain stem samples from cattle across the southwestern United States—primarily Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma—to support federal BSE surveillance programs under the Animal Health Protection Act.

County Services Inc. holds two active indefinite delivery contracts with USDA APHIS. The newer vehicle, awarded May 1, 2026, is a single-award Total Small Business set-aside IDC (contract 12639526Q0055) with a ceiling of $5,999,400 and a completion date of April 30, 2031, authorizing task orders for BSE sample collection with an estimated annual volume of approximately 29,820 samples across the three facilities. The prior single-award IDC (12639522D0080), originally awarded September 14, 2022 with a ceiling of $3,537,000 and completion date of August 31, 2027, has generated 23 task orders carrying $4 million in combined potential value. Recent representative task orders under the current IDCs include a $944,680 firm fixed-price delivery order awarded May 5, 2026 for BSE sample collection in the first ordering period, a $94,600 order issued December 1, 2025 for 244 Type B samples from Plainview, and a $400,000 order from October 9, 2024 for BSE collection across multiple states. Individual samples are priced between $160 and $240 depending on collection location and program year.

Customer concentration is absolute: USDA APHIS dominates the portfolio entirely. The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services and Veterinary Services divisions account for 29 and 62 awards respectively, representing $16.2 million and $13.9 million in combined potential value across 91 awards (86% of the portfolio). The remaining 27 awards are split across other APHIS divisions and Plant Protection and Quarantine, collectively representing $1.6 million. The vendor has served a total of four distinct customer agencies, all within USDA APHIS's organizational structure.

Activity has declined from 11 awards in 2022 to 2 awards in 2026 year-to-date, reflecting a shift from smaller, more frequent task orders under the prior IDC to the structure of the larger, Total Small Business-set-aside IDC awarded in May 2026. The recompete exposure is minimal: only 3 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $1.1 million in combined potential value. County Services Inc. performs all sample collection work in-house without identified subcontractors, maintaining direct responsibility for quality assurance, personnel training, sample documentation, and laboratory delivery coordination across its three operating locations.