A shipper list tells you who might ship. A USDA award names a food vendor that has to deliver a set quantity from its plant to named cities between two dates. awardlanes lists those awards as lanes for your states, each linked to the USDA page it came from.
862 USDA food-award lanes touch Texas as of Nov 7, 2026. 228 of them opened their delivery window this week. Open the Texas lanes
Every lane links to USDA's own page. 30 of 30 random lanes rebuilt from USDA's files on Nov 6, 2026.
| Question | Shipper list | USDA award lane |
|---|---|---|
| Who | Companies that might ship | The vendor USDA awarded the contract to |
| What | Industry and size | Commodity and quantity, as USDA printed them |
| Where | A company address | Plant city and each destination city |
| When | Not known | The delivery window from USDA's solicitation |
| Proof | The list seller's word | USDA's award notice, one click away |
An award is not a load: the vendor may already have a carrier, and USDA can change or cut a contract [source 1]. What it gives you is a named company, a lane and a date to call before.
A real Texas lane from the data as of Nov 7, 2026, word for word as our engine wrote it from USDA's files [source 3].
Window opened this week TX → PA
USDA awarded CAVINESS BEEF PACKERS, LIMITED 18 deliveries of BEEF COARSE GROUND FRZ CTN-60 LB (42,000 LB each) from the AMARILLO, TX plant to SCRANTON, PA, delivering Nov 1, 2026 – Dec 15, 2026 (contract 12-3J14-26-C-2024, award Sep 22, 2026).
USDA award notice (PCA), page 4 · finding al-7e5dd18ccce6 · data as of Nov 7, 2026
USDA's master solicitation sets the delivery rules for every vendor. These are the ones a carrier feels, quoted word for word with their clause numbers [source 1].
“Creating the ASN does not exempt the Contractor or subcontractor from securing an unloading appointment, which is mandatory for all deliveries.”
MSCP-D 452.211-75(b)
“Delivery appointments shall be scheduled as far in advance of expected delivery as possible, but not less than 72 hours prior to delivery …”
MSCP-D 452.211-75(c)
“… contractors will be required to use traceable, tamper-evident commercial seals … Seals shall be sequentially numbered.”
MSCP-D 4A52.247-70(b)
“It will be the responsibility of the Contractor to provide sufficient number of seals to the carrier service and to ensure that the trailer is sealed after each delivery location (when destined for multiple recipients).”
MSCP-D 4A52.247-70(d)
“When a shipment has multiple delivery points (drops), contractor must load and brace the conveyance for accurate and economical unloading, e.g. load and brace truck trailers in reverse order of delivery.”
MSCP-D 4A52.247-80
“Delivery by either trucks or railcars is at the option of the Contractor except for those destinations which specify the method of delivery.”
MSCP-D Master Solicitation, introduction
Not legal advice. Read the clauses in full in the MSCP-D PDF, and see pitching USDA vendors for what they mean for a broker.
Start from a contract instead of a list. USDA's award notices name the food vendor, its plant, each destination city, the quantity and the delivery window. awardlanes turns those notices into lanes for your states, each linked to the USDA page it came from, so you can call the vendor before the window opens.
When the award notice says "f.o.b. destination", the vendor delivers at its own expense (FAR 52.247-34 in USDA's master solicitation), so the vendor arranges the freight. 5,674 of the 8,355 findings as of Nov 7, 2026 say so. The vendor may already have a carrier.
USDA's commodity name tells you: frozen items carry "FRZ" or "FROZEN" in it, as printed on the award. We show the name as USDA wrote it and don't add a temperature the record doesn't state.
Vendor contacts are not included today. You get the vendor's name, the plant city and the contract number, as printed on the award.
It may. Many USDA vendors already have carriers, and an award is not a tender. What a lane gives you is timing: you can reach the vendor before its delivery window opens.
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