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PSC 8910 Dairy Foods and Eggs: $630M in FY2025 - and Why DoD History Lies About Who Buys Now

USASpending puts PSC 8910 at ~$630M in FY2025 (down ~9% YoY; down ~44% from FY2020). Cumulative FY2010-2025 is still DoD-heavy (~73%). The live year flipped: USDA AMS ~$415M vs DLA ~$197M. Bongards, Leprino, and AMPI lead. Here is the capture map history alone will get wrong.

Fed-Spend Research Team•August 22, 2026•12 min read
TL;DR · Key Facts
  • ▸PSC 8910 (Dairy Foods and Eggs) contract obligations: FY2025 ~$630M (down ~9% vs FY2024 ~$693M; down ~44% from FY2020 ~$1.12B). Peak in this series: FY2012 ~$4.36B.
  • ▸Cumulative FY2010-2025 still looks DoD-led (~$19.6B / ~73% vs USDA ~$6.8B / ~25%). FY2025 flipped: USDA ~$416M vs DoD ~$198M - mostly Agricultural Marketing Service (~$415M) vs Defense Logistics Agency (~$197M).
  • ▸FY2025 top recipients: Bongards Creameries ~$104M, Leprino ~$70M, Associated Milk Producers ~$68M. Largest sampled actions are USDA "commodities for USG food donations" - not base dining-hall folklore.
Source: Fed-Spend analysis of public federal contract data (USASpending.gov, FPDS, SAM.gov, GAO). Methodology and full report below.
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The free aha: history says DoD - FY2025 says USDA

PSC 8910 (Dairy Foods and Eggs) is a favorite LinkedIn chart: big multi-year total, DoD as the concentration story, a polite note to "split DoD vs USDA."

That framing is half-true.

On USASpending (contract award types A-D):

WindowContract obligations
FY2025~$630M
FY2024~$693M (~9% YoY decline into FY2025)
FY2020~$1.12B
FY2012 (peak in FY2010-2025 series)~$4.36B
FY2010~$4.32B
FY2010-2025 sum~$26.8B

Cumulative FY2010-2025 (rolling top-agency cuts): DoD ~$19.6B (~73%), USDA ~$6.8B (~25%). That is the "DoD owns dairy" slide.

FY2025 alone: USDA ~$416M, DoD ~$198M. The live buyer is Agricultural Marketing Service commodity programs, not a generic "installations first" coverage model.

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Data note: Pulled August 22, 2026 from USASpending.gov. Filters: `psc_codes: ["8910"]`, award types A-D. Other tools (FPDS extracts, different IDV treatment) can print ~$646M for FY2025 - same shape, different rounding. Totals move as agencies late-report.

Trend line: the $4B world is gone

Fiscal yearPSC 8910 obligations
2010~$4.32B
2011~$3.70B
2012~$4.36B
2013~$3.02B
2014~$2.13B
2015~$1.25B
2016~$1.22B
2017~$1.32B
2018~$524M
2019~$455M
2020~$1.12B
2021~$597M
2022~$720M
2023~$733M
2024~$693M
2025~$630M

So what: anyone still pricing a dairy capture plan off the FY2010-2012 era is off by roughly 7x. The post-2017 run-rate lives in the $450M-$1.1B band, with FY2025 at the soft end.

The agency flip (this is the whole brief)

Fiscal yearUSDADoDWho led?
FY2010~$346M~$3.95BDoD
FY2020~$977M~$121MUSDA
FY2023~$515M~$198MUSDA
FY2024~$504M~$173MUSDA
FY2025~$416M~$198MUSDA

DoD still dominates the multi-year pile because the early-2010s dining / subsistence spike was enormous. From FY2020 forward, the annual book is a USDA-led commodity story with a solid but smaller DLA residual.

If your CRM still ranks "every Army post foodservice office" above AMS commodity vehicles, you are staffing history.

FY2025 subagency: AMS vs DLA

Awarding subagencyFY2025
Agricultural Marketing Service~$415.3M
Defense Logistics Agency~$196.5M
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons~$13.6M
Department of Veterans Affairs~$2.5M
Department of the Army (direct)~$1.8M
APHIS~$0.5M

Two desks matter. Everything else is noise for a national dairy BD plan.

  • AMS = commodities for government food donations / nutrition programs (see transaction text below).
  • DLA = the DoD subsistence / distribution rail that still prints nearly $200M in this PSC.
  • Who got paid in FY2025

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    RecipientFY2025 PSC 8910
    BONGARDS CREAMERIES~$103.9M
    LEPRINO FOODS DAIRY PRODUCTS CO~$69.9M
    ASSOCIATED MILK PRODUCERS INC~$68.2M
    MICELI DAIRY PRODUCTS CO~$48.6M
    COASTAL PACIFIC FOOD DISTRIBUTORS, INC.~$23.4M
    US FOODS INC~$19.4M
    REINHART FOODSERVICE, LLC~$18.4M
    EFS EBREX SARL~$13.7M
    DAIRYLAND TRADING CO LLC~$12.4M
    MASTERS GALLERY FOODS, INCORPORATED~$11.9M
    WINONA FOODS INC.~$11.9M
    GOSSNER FOODS, INC~$11.5M

    Pattern: cheese / dairy manufacturers and co-ops lead. Broadline distributors (US Foods, Reinhart, Coastal Pacific) show up as the logistics layer - important if you sell cold chain, packaging, or regional distribution, not if you only chase "military dining."

    Largest FY2025 actions (sampled)

    Action dateAmountAward IDRecipientCue
    2025-02-12~$17.5M123J1425C0720LeprinoCommodities for USG food donations
    2025-06-16~$11.1M123J1425F1418LeprinoCommodities for USG food donations
    2025-02-12~$9.2M123J1425C0718Miceli DairyCommodities for USG food donations
    2025-07-25~$7.6M123J1425F1615LeprinoCommodities for USG food donations
    2025-07-17~$7.6M123J1425F1562LeprinoCommodities for USG food donations
    2025-09-10~$7.0M123J1425F1910AMPICommodities for USG food donations
    2025-07-02~$7.0M123J1425F1486AMPICommodities for USG food donations
    2025-06-18~$6.5M123J1425F1450BongardsCommodities for USG food donations

    The PIID family 123J14* is the AMS tell. If your opportunity scanner is tuned only to DLA foodservice PIIDs, you are missing the FY2025 volume leaders.

    Where the work landed (FY2025 place of performance)

    StateFY2025
    Minnesota~$140.9M
    New Mexico~$70.3M
    California~$62.9M
    Ohio~$50.2M
    Tennessee~$47.8M
    Wisconsin~$24.6M
    Texas~$19.8M
    North Carolina~$18.5M
    Georgia~$18.4M
    New York~$16.6M

    Minnesota leading is consistent with Upper Midwest dairy manufacturing density (Bongards / AMPI geography), not with "every CONUS installation equally."

    What this means for capture (not another trend tweet)

  • Staff two coverage models. AMS commodity / donation vehicles and DLA subsistence are different buyers, different seasons, different price mechanics.
  • Do not let a 20-year DoD pie chart set your FY2026 call plan. Cumulative share and current-year share disagree.
  • Open manufacturer cards before distributor folklore. Bongards, Leprino, AMPI, Miceli are the FY2025 obligation leaders in this PSC.
  • Watch the 123J14* family for AMS donation buys and DLA vehicles separately - then set alerts on both.
  • Price from recent awards, not FY2012 comps - the market is ~$630M, not ~$4B. Use price-to-win bands.
  • Bottom line

    PSC 8910 in FY2025 is a ~$630M market that has been sliding for a decade from a ~$4B peak. History still says DoD. The live year says USDA AMS first, DLA second, with cheese and dairy co-ops taking the largest checks for government food donations.

    The free aha is the agency flip. The paid layer is turning AMS vs DLA into separate pipelines with recipient expiry clocks before the next donation wave or subsistence refresh.


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    Primary sources: USASpending.gov `spending_over_time` and `spending_by_category` / `spending_by_transaction` for PSC 8910, award types A-D (pulled Aug 22, 2026).

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