Food Aid and Nutrition Government Tenders in United States

How food commodities and nutrition programmes are contracted

Food procurement for public and humanitarian programmes is a commodity trade wrapped in a quality regime. The specification fixes the product in technical terms -- moisture content, broken grain or defect tolerances, protein or fat content, milling standards, and for fortified commodities the micronutrient premix and its dosage. Packaging is specified as tightly as the food: bag weight and material, marking, stacking strength and pallet configuration all appear in the tender, because a sack that fails in a warehouse loses the commodity it contains.

The commercial terms are shipping terms. Bids are almost always invited against defined delivery terms that decide who carries freight, insurance, port charges and inland transport, and a price that looks competitive under one term can be uncompetitive under another. Inspection by an independent surveyor at loading, certificates of analysis, phytosanitary and fumigation certificates, and a minimum remaining shelf life on arrival are conditions of payment rather than paperwork. Because commodity prices move, contracts frequently carry a validity window measured in days and price adjustment against a published index.

Nutrition programmes add a layer that pure commodity supply does not have. Therapeutic and supplementary foods are bought against product standards and supplier qualification schemes rather than open specification, and the list of qualified producers is short. Local and regional purchase policies, which favour buying near the point of need to support local markets and shorten lead times, increasingly override pure price comparison. Bidders should expect their production capacity, traceability and recall procedures to be audited, not merely declared.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys food aid and nutrition in United States?

GlobalGov holds 703 food aid and nutrition records from 137 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are FCI Edgefield (157 records); USDA Ams 3J14 (63 records); Usda AMS 3J14 (52 records); DLA Troop Support (41 records); Ftc Oklahoma City (37 records); DLA Troop Support (29 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 54% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

What are food aid and nutrition contracts worth in United States?

229 of the 703 records publish a contract value. The median is $39,470 and the largest single published value is $125.0M. By size, 160 under $100k, 22 between $100k and $1M, 25 between $1M and $10M, 22 above $10M. The remaining 474 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to food aid and nutrition tenders in United States?

Across the 566 United States food aid and nutrition notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 14 days. A quarter of them allowed 9 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 19. 265 of them (47%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.

How often are food aid and nutrition tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 43 notices a month in this category, 521 in the last twelve months. That is 1984% more than the 25 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 561, spread across 41 separate months of activity since 3 January 2020. May is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 3 July 2026.

How does United States compare with other food aid and nutrition markets?

Among the 39 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable food aid and nutrition market, United States ranks 11th by number of records. The largest is France (4,020 records against 703 here). Within United States itself, food aid and nutrition is the 39th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United States food aid and nutrition records on this page come from?

These 703 records are collected from 4 official sources: SAM.gov (674), Simpler.Grants.gov (16), Grants.gov (9), USAspending (4). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Open Food Aid and Nutrition tenders in United States

Showing 10 of the 19 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the United States market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

Other procurement categories in United States

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