United Pulse Trading Inc.

United Pulse Trading Inc., doing business as United Pulse Trading, is a foreign-owned for-profit corporation based in Bismarck, North Dakota that supplies bulk agricultural commodities—principally pulse crops (yellow and green split peas, lentils) in 50-kilogram bags—to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor under full-and-open competitive procurements with no set-aside designations. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) and competes in commodity markets where set-asides are reserved for other categories (small business, SDVOSB, 8(a)) but the vendor itself does not hold SBA certifications.

United Pulse Trading's customer concentration is monolithic: the Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office accounts for 84 of the vendor's 140 recent awards and $77.3 million of the combined $131.1 million potential value, or 59% of all dollars. The Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service holds 17 awards worth $6.3 million, with smaller exposure through the Food for Progress program ($1.3 million) and the FSA Washington Office ($956 thousand). The top four customer offices represent 74% of award count and 66% of combined potential value. All named customer relationships are within USDA.

The vendor's capability footprint is entirely commodity supply. Recent representative awards include a $846,920 delivery of yellow split peas in 50-kilogram bags to FAS in June 2026, a $727,735 contract from the Kansas City Commodity Office for yellow split peas in June 2025, a $1.333 million Food for Progress contract for lentils in November 2024, a $663,645 Kansas City Commodity Office order for yellow split peas in August 2024, and multiple smaller orders ranging from $48 thousand to $581 thousand across 2022–2026. All contracts are firm fixed price and support USDA international food aid and domestic hunger relief programs. Performance occurs primarily at facilities in Williston, North Dakota and Houston, Texas.

Activity peaked in 2023 with 15 awards, followed by declining volume: 9 awards in 2024, 4 in 2025, and 4 in 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal—only 1 award with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carries $134 thousand potential value. The vendor holds no parent vehicle positions (GWACs, BPAs, agency-wide IDIQs) and operates as a direct prime contractor on individual definitive contracts issued through commodity procurement vehicles. Category concentration data shows 72 awards classified under Other Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers (NAICS 424510) and 67 under All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311999), with primary PSC coding split between Fruits and Vegetables and Food, Oils and Fats. The vendor reports over $5 million in cumulative federal contract awards since 2007, indicating sustained engagement with USDA commodity procurement but with no recent growth trajectory and no subcontracting, teaming, or diversification footprint outside pulse crop supply.