Federal contractor · WALNUT CREEK, CA

BASIC AMERICAN INC

BASIC AMERICAN INC received $5.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−27% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $73M. Its largest customer was Agricultural Marketing Service ($5.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$5.7M
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
BASIC AMERICAN, INC.
Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.3MFY2017
  2. 3.6MFY2018
  3. 8.3MFY2019
  4. 18.6MFY2020
  5. 5.4MFY2021
  6. 8.7MFY2022
  7. 3.4MFY2023
  8. 8.1MFY2024
  9. 7.8MFY2025
  10. 5.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Agricultural Marketing Service$5.7M100%
    5 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$5.7M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Bingham County, ID$5.7M100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000010293/4100030847/POTATOES DEHYDRATED FLKS PKG-12/1 LB$4.1M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Bingham County, ID· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 27, 2024 – Nov 17, 2025· 123J1424C2600
  2. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000010859/4100032561/POTATOES DEHYDRATED FLKS PKG-12/1 LB$2.7M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Bingham County, ID· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 16, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· 123J1425C1554
  3. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011249/4100034135/POTATOES DEHYDRATED FLKS PKG-12/1 LB$2.2M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Bingham County, ID· Other equipment & supplies· May 5, 2026 – May 5, 2026· 123J1426C1067
  4. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011439/4100034735/POTATOES DEHYDRATED FLKS PKG-12/1 LB$1.8M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Bingham County, ID· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 12, 2026 – Aug 12, 2026· 123J1426C1675
  5. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011058/4100033250/POTATOES DEHYDRATED FLKS PKG-12/1 LB$1.7M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Bingham County, ID· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 5, 2025 – Dec 5, 2025· 123J1426C0173

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. VIETTI ACQUISITION LLC$18.9M−24% in FY2026
    NASHVILLE, TN · 87% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing
  2. FURMAN FOODS INC$18.4M−37% in FY2026
    NORTHUMBERLAND, PA · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing
  3. CAMPBELL FOODSERVICE CO$27.3M+4.4% in FY2026
    CAMDEN, NJ · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • BASIC AMERICAN INC.AI match · 92%

PACs sponsored

  • BASIC AMERICAN INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE DBA BASIC AMERICAN FOODS PAC$0 raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: AI name judgments (entity-match@1, jev-1.13.0), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.