USDA's $2.6B Portfolio Tilted Hard Toward Forestry and Construction: Small Business Set-Asides Dominate but Face Consolidation Pressure
WinAContract · Aug 15, 2026
The Department of Agriculture's $2.6 billion in awards reveals a heavily forestry-weighted procurement landscape where 345 opportunities cluster in support services, small business set-asides control 75 percent of the portfolio, yet consolidation around Perimeter Solutions and Tyson Foods signals fierce incumbent advantage.
283
Open right now
2,801
On record
467
Awards
$2,624,312,933
Total awarded
The USDA currently tracks 2,801 live opportunities worth monitoring, with 283 actively open and 898 freshly posted in the last month, signaling sustained contracting velocity. The 467 awards issued to date total $2.6 billion, averaging $5.7 million per contract, a modest midpoint that masks a highly fragmented award distribution. What emerges is a procurement profile shaped by natural resource management and rural infrastructure, concentrated geographically in Western states, and nominally pro-small business on paper but increasingly tilted toward large incumbent consolidators in practice.
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