Department Of Agriculture Nevada

The Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDOA), a division of the State of Nevada government, functions as a prime recipient of federal grants and cooperative agreements across agricultural regulatory, food safety, animal health, and conservation programs, with 99% of its 727 recent federal awards structured as direct prime relationships rather than subcontract positions. NDOA operates exclusively under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations; it is a state agency and therefore ineligible for federal small-business or minority-owned certifications. Headquartered in Sparks, Nevada at 405 S 21st Street, NDOA's federal footprint reflects its statutory role as Nevada's agricultural authority and its delegation of USDA and USDI programs to the state level.

NDOA's award portfolio divides sharply between two operational tracks. The dominant track comprises cooperative agreements and formula grants from USDA agencies—primarily the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)—covering child nutrition program administration, food distribution and emergency food assistance, animal health surveillance and disease traceability, plant pest monitoring and invasive species management, and specialty crop promotion. Representative examples include $161.4 million in National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) formula-grant funding for the period October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026 to distribute meal subsidies and USDA foods to Nevada schools; $860,342 in Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) administrative grants (CFDA 10.568) for fiscal 2025–2026 to manage emergency food distribution networks; $726,000 in Cooperative Agreements with States for Intrastate Meat and Poultry Inspection (CFDA 10.475) to operate state-level meat and poultry inspection; and ongoing cooperative agreements with APHIS for pest surveillance activities targeting exotic wood borers, Phytophthora species, cyst nematodes, fire ants, honey bee health, and Asian defoliators, each typically $14,000–$18,000 annually. The second, smaller track comprises BPA calls and purchase orders from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada Region and California Region for brand inspection and equine infectious anemia testing services on public lands, with the primary vehicle being a $750,000 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement established March 9, 2022 and running through February 28, 2027. Recent BPA calls against this vehicle include $150,000 in February 2026 for brand inspection and EIA testing through February 2027, $150,000 in February 2025 for the same services through February 2026, and $114,950.53 in February 2024 for brand inspection and testing through February 2025.

Customer concentration is highly fragmented by award count but highly concentrated by dollar value. APHIS (across its Veterinary Services, plant pest survey, and related divisions) leads in award volume with 233 awards in the source data, but most carry minimal dollar values—the combined potential value across APHIS awards is only $28 thousand because these are small annual cooperative agreements. FNS dominates by combined potential value: the source identifies 82 + 73 + 47 = 202 FNS awards (though these may reflect duplicate counting by sub-agency) centered on nutrition program administration, meal reimbursement, food distribution, and senior nutrition initiatives. The top customers by potential value block shows BLM Nevada Region anchoring $3.4 million across 31 awards (90% of all potential value in the recent portfolio), reflecting the BPA vehicle and associated task orders for livestock services. The remaining dollars scatter across APHIS Veterinary Services ($53 thousand, 6 awards), BLM California Region ($43 thousand, 11 awards), and APHIS Marketing and Regulatory Programs ($42 thousand, 2 awards).

Top parent vehicles are all Blanket Purchase Agreements. FAB010105 carries 32 task orders (likely BLM-related livestock brand inspection and testing), INL (Idaho National Laboratory) BCP BPA 062504 carries 27 task orders, BCP012513 carries 10 task orders, INL11PA00031 carries 7 task orders worth $193 thousand combined, and INL16PA00063 carries 7 task orders worth $478 thousand combined. The INL vehicles suggest NDOA provides specialized technical or administrative services to Department of Energy operations, though the awards summaries do not detail the scope.

NDOA's capability footprint is narrowly defined by statute and federal delegation: livestock brand inspection and equine disease testing for federal land management; plant pest surveillance and monitoring (cooperative detection of invasive insects, diseases, and pathogens across Nevada); animal health surveillance including avian and cattle disease monitoring, animal disease traceability program administration, and disease response support; meat and poultry inspection program operation under state delegated authority; administration of USDA food assistance and nutrition programs (National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, and Emergency Food Assistance Program); specialty crop marketing and promotion; invasive species and forest health management; and native seed production and rangeland restoration. NDOA acts as the direct state recipient and pass-through agency for all federal nutrition programs; sub-awards from these grants flow to local school districts, food banks, and community organizations. The National Plant Diagnostic Network and regional Forest Service partnerships position NDOA as a technical hub for diagnostic laboratory services and invasive species research.

Recent activity shows modest decline. Awards per year dropped from 48 in 2022 to 43 in 2023, 36 in 2024, rebounded to 42 in 2025, and stands at only 9 through early September 2026 (a partial-year count). Combined potential value across all 727 awards is only $4 million, a reflection of the dominance of small annual cooperative agreements in the portfolio; obligated dollars total $2.4 billion, indicating that cumulative expenditures across multi-year grants far exceed the current-year ceiling values on the books. Within the next twenty-four months, 45 awards (combined potential value $284 thousand) will reach ultimate completion and trigger recompete activity, primarily the annual APHIS pest surveillance and animal health cooperative agreements and select FNS nutrition program allocations.

NDOA holds no subcontractor role in any identified federal contract. Its 7 federal grant sub-awards are inbound: the Department of Health and Human Services has issued sub-awards to NDOA for mosquito and tick surveillance and influenza H5N1 pandemic response; the University of California Davis and UC Office of the President have issued sub-awards for plant pathology diagnostics, food safety compliance support, and technical assistance to small and medium producers. These relationships reflect NDOA's designation as a node within multi-institutional research and implementation networks rather than a vendor delivering services under a larger prime.