Ohio Department Of Agriculture

Ohio Department Of Agriculture Animal Health, Food Safety, Feed & Fertilizer, Markets, Farmland Division (ODA), a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, operates as a federal grant and contract recipient delivering animal health diagnostics, food safety testing, and agricultural regulatory services to USDA and FDA agencies on a non-set-aside basis. ODA acts as a prime recipient on the vast majority of its federal work (98% of recent awards) and does not compete under small-business set-asides.

ODA's federal footprint centers on animal disease diagnostics and laboratory testing. The agency holds a $20 million Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC 12639521D0088) with USDA APHIS Veterinary Services running through August 2026, through which it issues delivery orders for National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) diagnostic testing. Representative recent contract work includes firm-fixed-price delivery orders for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) testing ($100,000 awarded April 9, 2026; ultimate completion April 8, 2027), antimicrobial resistance and susceptibility testing ($3,750 awarded April 21, 2026; completion April 20, 2027), and foreign animal disease surveillance ($2,000 awarded April 22, 2026; completion April 21, 2027). ODA also operates a $4.36 million definitive FDA contract for human food inspections in Ohio (awarded September 7, 2023; completion March 17, 2027) and receives over $11 million annually in cooperative agreement funding from USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to operate Ohio's state meat and poultry inspection program under the Cooperative Agreements with States for Intrastate Meat and Poultry Inspection program (CFDA 10.475).

Federal grant work anchors ODA's primary mission. The agency is the prime recipient on more than 80 cooperative agreements and project grants from USDA APHIS (Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program, CFDA 10.025), FDA (Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards and food safety testing capacity, CFDA 93.103), EPA (pesticide regulatory enforcement and water quality, CFDA 66.605 and 66.469), USDA NRCS (conservation technical assistance, CFDA 10.912), USDA AMS (specialty crop promotion and Pesticide Data Program support, CFDA 10.170 and 10.163), and USDA FSIS (meat and poultry inspection, CFDA 10.477). Recent representative grants include $4.5 million from APHIS for Asian Longhorned Beetle eradication (awarded September 1, 2025; completion August 31, 2026), $1.54 million from FDA for food safety testing capability expansion through five years of whole-genome sequencing and pathogen database support (awarded September 20, 2025; completion June 30, 2030), $1.023 million from EPA for pesticide regulatory and enforcement programs (awarded October 1, 2025; completion September 30, 2026), and $300,000 from APHIS for Spotted Lanternfly monitoring, survey, and suppression (awarded August 1, 2026; completion July 31, 2027). ODA's accredited laboratory facilities in Reynoldsburg and Ames, Iowa support foreign animal disease surveillance, avian influenza screening, antimicrobial resistance analysis, chronic wasting disease testing, and food pathogen detection in support of national agricultural health and food safety infrastructure.

Customer concentration is high and federal-agency focused. The top five customer entities account for 69% of recent award count and nearly all of the dollars. USDA APHIS Veterinary Services leads with 39 awards worth $21.2 million in combined potential value; APHIS Marketing and Regulatory Programs follows with 16 awards valued at $20.7 million; FDA ranks third with 38 awards totaling $16.6 million. Activity has remained relatively flat at 31–40 awards per year over the past five years. Within the next 24 months, 37 awards carrying $5 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion, creating recompete demand for animal health diagnostics and food safety cooperative agreements. ODA holds no recognized SBA designations and competes on a full-and-open basis across all federal work.