Federal contractor · NASHVILLE, TN

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TENNESSEE

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TENNESSEE received $270.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 8 awards (−28% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.3M. Its largest customer was Food and Drug Administration ($207.5K). It also received $15M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$270.8K
New awards
8
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 377.2KFY2017
  2. -154.4KFY2018
  3. -481.6KFY2019
  4. 172KFY2020
  5. 153.2KFY2021
  6. 96KFY2022
  7. 284.7KFY2023
  8. 227.5KFY2024
  9. 377.8KFY2025
  10. 270.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Food and Drug Administration$207.5K77%
    4 awards
  2. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$63.4K23%
    4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$270.8K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Davidson County, TN$258.7K96%
  2. Story County, IA$12.1K4.5%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $270.8K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $270.8K
  • 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$207.5K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 2 awards
  2. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$63.4K
    Department of Agriculture · 4 awards

Largest awards

  1. TN AF INSPECTIONS$301.7K
    Food and Drug Administration· Prince George's County, MD· Professional services· Aug 20, 2021 – Apr 23, 2026· 75F40121C00102
  2. HUMAN FOOD TENNESSEE INSPECTIONS 2026$169.8K
    Food and Drug Administration· Davidson County, TN· Professional services· Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· 75F40126C00144
  3. FY-06 TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOOD CONTRACT NO OF INSPECTIONS 185 485 37 TOTAL CONTRACT PRICE 89793 45$89.8K
    Food and Drug Administration· Davidson County, TN· Professional services· Jul 26, 2026 – Jul 26, 2026· HHSF223200640108P
  4. NATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORY NETWORK ORDER FOR FAD TESTING.$41.3K
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service· Davidson County, TN· Professional services· Apr 17, 2026 – Apr 17, 2026· 12639526F0419
  5. ANIMAL FOOD TENNESSEE INSPECTIONS 2026$39K
    Food and Drug Administration· Davidson County, TN· Professional services· Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 75F40126C00192
  6. MORATORIUM EXCEPTION: HPAI NATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORY NETWORK DIAGNOSTIC TESTING SERVICES HPAI CATTLE EMERGING EVENT TESTING$10K
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service· Story County, IA· Professional services· Feb 10, 2026 – Feb 10, 2026· 12639526F0230
  7. ORATORIUM EXCEPTION: HPAI$10K
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service· Davidson County, TN· Professional services· Nov 20, 2025 – Nov 20, 2025· 12639526F0043
  8. NATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORY NETWORK DIAGNOSTIC TESTING SERVICES FOR AMR AST TESTING$2,125
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service· Story County, IA· Professional services· Jul 10, 2026 – Jul 10, 2026· 12639526F0696

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.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TENNESSEE received $15M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 99 actions (24 new awards), −28% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.664 · Cooperative Forestry Assistance ($3.9M).

Assistance · FY2026
$15M
New awards
24
Actions
99
Since FY2021
$121.8M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 18.6MFY2021
  2. 20.7MFY2022
  3. 30.7MFY2023
  4. 16.2MFY2024
  5. 20.7MFY2025
  6. 15MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$12.8M85%
  2. Other assistance$2.2M15%

Top programs

  1. 10.664 · Cooperative Forestry Assistance$3.9M26%
  2. 66.460 · Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants$2.6M17%
  3. 10.703 · Cooperative Fire Protection Agreement$2.2M15%
  4. 10.568 · Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative COSTS)$1.9M13%
  5. 10.560 · State Administrative Expenses for Child Nutrition$1.1M7.4%
  6. 93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research$1M6.9%
  7. 66.605 · Performance Partnership Grants$819.4K5.5%
  8. 10.652 · Forestry Research$441.3K3.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Forest Service$6.8M46%
    Department of Agriculture
  2. Environmental Protection Agency$3.4M23%
  3. Food and Nutrition Service$3M20%
    Department of Agriculture
  4. Food and Drug Administration$1M6.9%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  5. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$618.6K4.1%
    Department of Agriculture
  6. Agricultural Marketing Service$30K0.2%
    Department of Agriculture

Largest awards

  1. REF DOC= 1934732020 // COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT // STATE= (B // FOREST SERVICE UNIT= 804 // UNIT DESCRIPTION= CHEROKEE NF // INCIDENT NAME=…$9.6M
    10.703 · Cooperative Fire Protection Agreement· Forest Service· Other financial assistance· Jan 27, 2021 – Mar 10, 2026· 19FI11080400301
  2. COUNTY AND SWCD ENTRY-LEVEL TECHNICIANS$2.9M
    10.902 · Soil and Water Conservation· Natural Resources Conservation Service· Cooperative agreement· May 11, 2022 – May 8, 2026· NR224741XXXXC007
  3. DESCRIPTION:THIS ACTION APPROVES AN AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,568,000 TO THE TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. THIS AGREEMENT PROVIDES…$2.6M
    66.460 · Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants· Environmental Protection Agency· Formula grant· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· 99677625
  4. THE FISCAL YEAR 2026 TENNESSSEE CONSOLIDATED PROGRAM GRANT HAS FIVE OF COMPONENTS:THE PURPOSE OF THE COOPERATIVE LANDS FOREST HEALTH…$2.4M
    10.664 · Cooperative Forestry Assistance· Forest Service· Grant· Sep 11, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026· 26DG11083147001
  5. ENHANCE THE CAPACITY AND CAPABILITIES OF TENNESSEE'S HUMAN AND ANIMAL FOOD TESTING LABORATORIES IN SUPPORT OF AN INTEGRATED FOOD SAFETY…$2.4M
    93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research· Food and Drug Administration· Cooperative agreement· Oct 14, 2020 – Feb 2, 2026· U19FD007098
  6. CAP TEFAP ADMIN GRTS TO STS$1.7M
    10.568 · Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative COSTS)· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Nov 17, 2025 – Jun 22, 2026· 265TN817Y8105

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

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $189.5K (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. MENTAL HEALTH & SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF$150K79%
    NASHVILLE, TN · 1 subaward
  2. GYPSY MOTH SLOW THE SPREAD FOUNDATION INC$39.5K21%
    RALEIGH, NC · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $7.1M paid out · $132.4K received
  • FY2022: $3.7M paid out · $88.7K received
  • FY2023: $10.7M paid out · $183.7K received
  • FY2024: $3.5M paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2025: $250K paid out · $150K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $189.5K 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

66 companies · $25.2M reported

  1. SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE, INC.$4.9M
    NASHVILLE, TN · 6 subawards
  2. MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK$2.9M
    MEMPHIS, TN · 4 subawards
  3. SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE$2.4M
    MARYVILLE, TN · 5 subawards

Primes that pay it

5 companies · $1.9M reported

  1. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$1M
    FORT COLLINS, CO · 1 subaward
  2. MENTAL HEALTH & SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF$450K
    NASHVILLE, TN · 3 subawards
  3. GYPSY MOTH SLOW THE SPREAD FOUNDATION INC$208.6K
    RALEIGH, NC · 4 subawards

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

  1. AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES, VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF$1.1M−49% in FY2026
    RICHMOND, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Administration of human resource programsAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  2. VA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH$689.9K+14% in FY2026
    RICHMOND, VA · 79% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Administration of human resource programs
  3. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH$713.4K−100% in FY2026
    ATLANTA, GA · 79% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Administration of human resource programs

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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.