State Of West Virginia Department Of Agriculture

The State of West Virginia Department of Agriculture, doing business as Administrative Services, is a state government entity functioning as a prime recipient and contractor for federal agricultural, food safety, animal health, and environmental programs. The organization holds 624 prime awards and 20 sub-awards across all federal sources with a combined potential value of $46.5 million and combined obligated dollars of $201.2 million. Work is performed across West Virginia, with administrative oversight from Charleston, West Virginia.

The Department's federal footprint centers on animal health diagnostics, food inspection, pest and invasive species management, and emergency food assistance. On the contract side, the organization recently secured a $25 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services for National Animal Health Laboratory Network diagnostic testing services (September 2026 through August 2031), alongside delivery orders for highly pathogenic avian influenza cattle testing ($50 thousand in April 2024) and related animal laboratory services. On the food safety front, the FDA awarded a $40.8 thousand definitive contract for West Virginia animal food state inspection (awarded August 2026, running through August 2031) and a $40.6 thousand contract for human food inspection program support (awarded September 2023, ending March 2027). The Department also holds a historic single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with USDA APHIS (December 2021, $10 thousand ceiling, extending through November 2026) that has funded multiple delivery orders for animal health testing.

On the grant side, the Department acts as prime recipient for a dense portfolio of cooperative agreements and formula grants from USDA APHIS, USDA Forest Service, FDA, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, EPA, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, SBA, and other agencies. Major recent grants include a $3.917 million FDA cooperative agreement for enhancing food safety laboratory capabilities under the Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (awarded September 2025, running through June 2030, CFDA 93.103); a $612 thousand USDA Forest Service project grant for forest health protection including hemlock woolly adelgid and oak wilt management (awarded July 2026, running through June 2031, CFDA 10.680); a $2.074 million USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service cooperative agreement for intrastate meat and poultry inspection (awarded October 2025, CFDA 10.475); a $302.007 thousand USDA APHIS cooperative agreement for commercial poultry disease surveillance (awarded April 2026, CFDA 10.025); a $260.250 thousand APHIS cooperative agreement for spotted lanternfly control (awarded May 2026, CFDA 10.025); and numerous other APHIS plant pest surveillance and animal disease traceability cooperative agreements. The Department also receives formula grants for food assistance programs including a $560.187 thousand Emergency Food Assistance Program grant (awarded October 2025, CFDA 10.568), a $1.049 million Commodity Supplemental Food Program grant (awarded October 2025, CFDA 10.565), and $405.653 thousand for the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (awarded October 2025, CFDA 10.576). The Department passes TEFAP and CSFP funds through to two primary sub-recipients: Mountaineer Food Bank Inc. and Facing Hunger Foodbank Inc.

Customer concentration is very high. The top five funding agencies account for 68% of awards by count, dominated by USDA APHIS (232 awards across Veterinary Services and Marketing and Regulatory Programs units), USDA Food and Nutrition Service (69 awards in one category and 49 in another, covering SNAP, TEFAP, child nutrition, and senior nutrition programs), USDA Forest Service (46 awards for forest health protection), and USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (41 awards for specialty crops, market news, and food purchase programs). By potential dollar value, APHIS Veterinary Services anchors the portfolio with $25 million across five awards, followed by APHIS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services with $20.1 million across seven awards. FDA food safety and animal feed grants add $789 thousand across 28 awards.

The Department's work involves no subcontractor primes (97% prime, 3% sub-awards). Sub-awards are primarily grant pass-throughs to Mountaineer Food Bank Inc., Facing Hunger Foodbank Inc., West Virginia University, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, and Gypsy Moth Slow The Spread Foundation Inc. for food distribution, research, environmental projects, and spongy moth eradication.

Recent activity shows award volume averaging around 29 awards per year over 2022–2026, with 18 awards captured in 2026 year-to-date. Twenty-four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $131 thousand, presenting minimal recompete exposure. The Department's largest contract by value—the $25 million NAHLN diagnostic testing IDC—completes in August 2031, well beyond the near-term recompete window.

Activity falls across health program administration, veterinary services, agricultural marketing regulation, testing and laboratory services, and forestry support. The Department is a U.S. state government entity and a child entity of the State of West Virginia, serving federal agencies across civilian agriculture, food safety, environmental, and emergency response missions with no SBA set-asides, minority ownership, or small-business status. Its federal engagement is full-and-open competition as a state agency operating under cooperative and purchase agreements aligned with USDA, FDA, and EPA mandates.