Dark Moon Farms & Kennels LLC

Dark Moon Farms & Kennels LLC, doing business as Nose Dogs Detection Services, supplies trained and untrained detection canines to federal law enforcement and security agencies as a prime contractor operating under total small business set-asides. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and woman-owned small business based in Montello, Nevada, competing exclusively in small business set-aside categories across PSC Live Animals, Not Raised For Food and NAICS All Other Animal Production.

The vendor's customer footprint spans five distinct federal agencies, dominated by dollar value from a single $11 million blanket purchase agreement with the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Security Forces Center for trained working dogs supporting patrol, drug detection, explosive detection, and specialized mission functions through March 2027. That single vehicle represents 86% of the vendor's combined potential value across all awards. The remaining customer concentration spreads across the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (six awards, $341 thousand combined potential value), the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (two awards, $753 thousand combined potential value), the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (two awards, $635 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command (three awards, $41 thousand combined potential value). Recent named work includes a $115 thousand TSA BPA call awarded August 2026 for ten basic explosive detection canines, performance in San Antonio through September 2026; a $34 thousand total small business purchase order from Customs and Border Protection awarded February 2026 for four support canines in El Paso; and a $135 thousand total small business BPA call from APHIS awarded August 2021 for eighteen beagles (contract later modified to de-obligate funds as canines were not delivered).

The vendor holds two active BPAs: the $638 thousand TSA blanket purchase agreement for trained working dogs and associated services awarded September 2024 running through September 2029, and the $11 million Air Force multiple-award BPA established March 2022. Recent activity shows a sporadic cadence — two awards in 2021, two in 2022, three in 2024, and two in 2026 — with only $149 thousand in combined potential value facing recompete inside the next twenty-four months. The vendor operates as a pure prime contractor with no subcontract footprint and competes exclusively under small business set-asides where applicable, with no full-and-open awards in the source data.