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Department of Agriculture: $9.6B in contracts in FY2025
USDA reaches every county through seventeen agencies, and its contract dollars follow: wildland fire aviation and crews for the Forest Service, laboratory and veterinary work for APHIS and ARS, the nutrition-program systems that run SNAP and WIC, and construction, facilities and IT across a vast rural footprint. It is one of the heaviest users of HUBZone set-asides.
Its mission, in its own words
We provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 32 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.usda.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $2.4B
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 25.3%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What USDA buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most USDA contract dollars in FY2025: together $6.6B, 68.6% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $1B | 10.7% | |
| $868M | 9.1% | |
| $540M | 5.6% | |
| $539M | 5.6% | |
| $524M | 5.5% | |
| $510M | 5.3% | |
| $495M | 5.2% | |
| $376M | 3.9% | |
| $294M | 3.1% | |
| $263M | 2.8% | |
| $263M | 2.7% | |
| $253M | 2.6% | |
| $211M | 2.2% | |
| $209M | 2.2% | |
| $196M | 2% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$2,417,305,400 of USDA’s FY2025 contract dollars, 25.3% of the total, went out under a small-business set-aside: competitions and sole-source awards reserved for small firms, 8(a) participants, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned and women-owned businesses. The dollars primes placed with small subcontractors sit on top of that and are not counted here.
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations, read 2026-11-05.
The vehicles
DASH
Departmental Acquisition Support Services, the multi-award IDIQ for acquisition and program support.
Forest Service BPAs
Fire suppression services, aviation and forest-health work.
USDA IT services BPAs
Application, cloud and cybersecurity support for the mission areas.
NITAAC and GSA MAS
IT modernization and commercial products and services.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at USDA for you
GovSmith reads USDA's yearly forecast against a client's profile, watches the regional Forest Service and APHIS buys that are set aside for rural and HUBZone firms, and finds the mission-area office whose work the client already does for someone else.