Federal contractor · BROOMFIELD, CO

COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE received $68.1K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+21% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $545.7K. Its largest customer was Food and Drug Administration ($53.6K). It also received $1.5M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$68.1K
New awards
2
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
D364K1RF8JL1
Parent company
THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO
Other than small businessGovernment entity
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT company family: 5 registered entities, $1.3M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTDENVER, CO · Family page
    $984.4K
  2. BOARD OF EDUCATION COLORADODENVER, CO
    $179.1K
  3. COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCESDENVER, CO
    $60.2K
  4. THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADODENVER, CO
    $12.8K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 39.1KFY2017
  2. 64.7KFY2018
  3. 37.4KFY2019
  4. 44.9KFY2020
  5. 55.3KFY2021
  6. 43.5KFY2022
  7. 47.5KFY2023
  8. 88.8KFY2024
  9. 56.4KFY2025
  10. 68.1KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Food and Drug Administration$53.6K79%
    1 awards
  2. Bureau of Land Management$14.5K21%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$53.6K79%
  2. Facilities & utilities$14.5K21%

Where the work was performed

  1. Broomfield County, CO$53.6K79%
  2. Fremont County, CO$14.5K21%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $68.1K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $68.1K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Food and Drug Administration$53.6K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. COLORADO ANIMAL FOOD INSPECTIONS$53.6K
    Food and Drug Administration· Broomfield County, CO· Professional services· Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· 75F40126C00179
  2. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PURCHASE ORDER IS TO ESTABLISH A VEHICLE TO PROVIDE PAYMENT TO THE COLORADO STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COLORADO BRANDING BOARD FOR BRAND INSPECTIONS$28.7K
    Bureau of Land Management· Fremont County, CO· Facilities & utilities· Jun 13, 2025 – Mar 11, 2026· 140L1725P0023

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE received $1.5M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 40 actions (13 new awards), −50% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research ($823.4K).

Assistance · FY2026
$1.5M
New awards
13
Actions
40
Since FY2021
$65.6M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 6MFY2021
  2. 10.9MFY2022
  3. 39.2MFY2023
  4. 4.8MFY2024
  5. 3MFY2025
  6. 1.5MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$1.5M96%
  2. Other assistance$60K3.9%

Top programs

  1. 93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research$823.4K54%
  2. 10.025 · Animal Disease and Animal Care$546K36%
  3. 10.031 · Plant Pest and Disease Management (PPDM)$332.6K22%
  4. 15.509 · Title Ii, Colorado River Basin Salinity Control$65K4.2%
  5. 10.717 · Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Restoration/Revegetation$60K3.9%
  6. 10.163 · Market Protection and Promotion$35.8K2.3%
  7. 10.912 · Environmental Quality Incentives Program-$331.2K0.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$878.6K57%
    Department of Agriculture
  2. Food and Drug Administration$823.4K54%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Bureau of Reclamation$65K4.2%
    Department of the Interior
  4. Forest Service$60K3.9%
    Department of Agriculture
  5. Agricultural Marketing Service$35.8K2.3%
    Department of Agriculture

Largest awards

  1. EXPANDS MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART BEEF AND ELEVEN CROPPING SYSTEMS INCLUDING CORN AND GRAINS BY SUPPORTING AND EXPANDING THE STAR PROGRAM…$25M
    10.937 · Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities· Natural Resources Conservation Service· Project grant· Apr 17, 2023 – Aug 18, 2026· NR233A750004G008
  2. FACILITATING AND EXPANDING OUTREACH AND EDUCATION ABOUT NATUAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION TO COLORADO'S LANDOWNERS.$6.7M
    10.069 · Conservation Reserve Program· Natural Resources Conservation Service· Cooperative agreement· Jul 29, 2021 – Mar 27, 2026· NR208B05XXXXC007
  3. COLORADO SOIL HEALTH PROGRAM: SUPPORTING PRODUCERS AND CONSERVATION DISTRICTS TO IMPROVE DROUGHT RESILIENCE AND WATER UTILIZATION.$4.5M
    10.912 · Environmental Quality Incentives Program· Natural Resources Conservation Service· Grant· Jan 31, 2022 – Aug 20, 2026· NR223A750013G002
  4. PATH C COLORADO PRODUCE SAFETY COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TO IMPLEMENT A NATIONAL PRODUCE SAFETY PROGRAM - COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE…$2.8M
    93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research· Food and Drug Administration· Cooperative agreement· Jun 28, 2021 – Jul 15, 2026· U2FFD007408
  5. MAINTENANCE OF THE COLORADO ANIMAL FEED REGULATORY PROGRAM STANDARDS (U18)$983.7K
    93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research· Food and Drug Administration· Cooperative agreement· Jul 26, 2021 – Jan 15, 2026· U18FD007195
  6. COLORADO DEPT OF AGRICULTURE APPLICATION FOR THE FDA LFFM PAR-20-105$754.6K
    93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research· Food and Drug Administration· Cooperative agreement· Oct 30, 2020 – Dec 29, 2025· U19FD007074

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $5.4M (36 subawards)

29 sub-recipients

  1. COLORADO JUICE CO LLC$450K8.4%
    DELTA, CO · 1 subaward
  2. LARIMER CONSERVATION DISTRICT$433.3K8.0%
    FORT COLLINS, CO · 1 subaward
  3. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$382.4K7.1%
    FORT COLLINS, CO · 6 subawards
  4. POUDRE VALLEY COMMUNITY FARMS$350K6.5%
    FORT COLLINS, CO · 1 subaward
  5. CENTENNIAL AG TRADING, LLC$332K6.2%
    BRUSH, CO · 1 subaward
  6. JEFFERSON CONSERVATION DISTRICT$326.1K6.1%
    DENVER, CO · 1 subaward
  7. COLORADO FRESH ENTERPRISES, LLC$318.6K5.9%
    DENVER, CO · 1 subaward
  8. COLORADORANCHERS INC$273.4K5.1%
    DENVER, CO · 1 subaward
  9. FORT LEWIS COLLEGE$247.3K4.6%
    DURANGO, CO · 2 subawards
  10. TUXEDO CORN COMPANY, LLC$240K4.5%
    OLATHE, CO · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $79.1K received
  • FY2022: $822.5K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2023: $2.2M paid out · $4.1M received
  • FY2024: $13.7M paid out · $345.4K received
  • FY2025: $2.4M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $5.4M paid out · $0 received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

959 companies · $6.6B reported

  1. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 1 IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER AND THE STATE OF COLORADO$927.9M
    DENVER, CO · 260 subawards
  2. JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 28-J OF THE COUNTIES OF ADAMS & ARAPAHOE$406.4M
    AURORA, CO · 186 subawards
  3. JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1$380.5M
    GOLDEN, CO · 236 subawards

Primes that pay it

22 companies · $154.6M reported

  1. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES COLORADO$81.1M
    DENVER, CO · 27 subawards
  2. COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE$30.4M
    DENVER, CO · 2 subawards
  3. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO$23.2M
    DENVER, CO · 11 subawards

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

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 24 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES$8.6M−34% in FY2026
    MADISON, WI · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Administration of human resource programsSocial Security Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · Data processing, hosting, and related services+2 more
  2. PUBLIC HEALTH, MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF$7.8M−28% in FY2026
    BOSTON, MA · 75% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Administration of human resource programsSocial Security Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · Data processing, hosting, and related services+3 more
  3. HEALTH, NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF$9.9M−53% in FY2026
    TRENTON, NJ · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Administration of human resource programsSocial Security Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · Data processing, hosting, and related services+2 more

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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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.