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7,982 USDA food-award lanes still have deliveries due. See the ones in your states.

Plant city, destination city, quantity and delivery window for each, copied from USDA's award notices as of Nov 7, 2026. On 68% of the listed findings, USDA's notice says f.o.b. destination: the vendor pays the freight.

Up to 3 states. A lane counts when its plant or a destination is in them.

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Every lane links to USDA's own page. 30 of 30 random lanes rebuilt from USDA's files on Nov 6, 2026.

What awardlanes is

awardlanes turns USDA's food-purchase award notices into a list of plant-to-destination lanes for your states, each linked to the USDA page it came from, so you can pitch the vendor before its delivery window opens.

We cite USDA; we are not USDA. awardlanes is an independent product of Helios One Oy.

Who it's for
Owners of small freight brokerages, especially food-grade reefer and dry-van brokers.
What you get
The lanes for up to 3 states on the web and as a CSV, updated every week. Each lane links to the USDA page it came from. The Monday email isn't switched on yet.
What it isn't
A load board. An award is USDA's contract with a food vendor, not a tender. Many vendors already have a carrier, and USDA can change or cut a contract.
Got an email from us?
Its lanes came from these same USDA files. Type your state above to see the rest, each with its USDA link.

How it works

Numbers as of Nov 7, 2026.

  1. USDA posts the award

    USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service buys food delivered to cities across the country. Each award is posted on its procurement portal as a PDF award notice (PCA) with its solicitation and, for most awards, a Bid Array spreadsheet. The 862 lanes that touch Texas sit in 77 award notices with 1,606 PDF pages.

  2. We turn award lines into lanes

    Plant city to destination city, the quantity, and the delivery window from each line's “Required by” period, copied as printed. Before a lane is listed we re-read the raw files: 0 of 8,355 findings failed. USDA's two files (award notice and Bid Array) agree on 8,197 of them.

  3. You call the vendor early

    Every week the app lists the lanes for your states, each linked to its USDA page, so you can pitch the vendor before its delivery window opens. On 6,256 of 8,355 listed findings, the window starts after Nov 7, 2026.

A real lane, as you'd get it

The same card the tool above and the weekly feed show. Click a source to check it against USDA's own file.

Window opens this week

USDA awarded NEBRASKA BEAN, INC. 18 deliveries of LENTILS DRY PKG 12/2 LB (1,680 CS each) from the CLEARWATER, NE plant to HOUSTON, TX, delivering Nov 1, 2026 – Apr 15, 2027 (contract 12-3J14-26-C-1989, award Sep 24, 2026). The award notice says it was purchased f.o.b. destination (the vendor pays the freight).

Vendor
NEBRASKA BEAN, INC.
Commodity
LENTILS DRY PKG 12/2 LB
Plant
CLEARWATER, NE
Destination
HOUSTON, TX
Quantity
18 deliveries (1,680 CS each); 30,240 CS in total
Delivery window
Nov 1, 2026 – Apr 15, 2027
Contract
12-3J14-26-C-1989
Award date
Sep 24, 2026
  • Quantities are as awarded; USAspending shows the contract was modified later.

NEBRASKA BEAN, INC.: 7 awards posted on USDA's procurement portal in 12 months.

More sources (3)

From the Texas sample, data as of Nov 7, 2026. Lane al-f7e40d4c70e7.

How to read a lane

  1. The label says where the lane stands this week: its delivery window opens this week, starts later, or is already open.
  2. The sentence is built from the record by a fixed template, never by a model: vendor, quantity, plant, destination, window, contract and award date, as USDA printed them.
  3. “f.o.b. destination (the vendor pays the freight)” appears only when that award notice says so.
  4. Open USDA page opens the award notice at the page that lists this lane (page 44). Bid Array spreadsheet (.xls) downloads USDA's whole spreadsheet for this solicitation, every line of it, not one row. Find this lane's lines by the destination city and the vendor's name. USDA doesn't post one for every award, so some lanes have no Bid Array link.
  5. Notes under the sentence are in plain words, for example when USAspending shows the contract was modified after the award.

Why you can check every line

  • Every lane

    links to USDA's own page: the award notice at the right page, and the Bid Array spreadsheet when USDA posted one (8,197 of 8,355 listed findings, as of Nov 7, 2026).

  • 30 of 30

    random lanes rebuilt from USDA's files in a separate check on Nov 6, 2026, with code that shares nothing with our engine. None was false.

  • 0 of 8,355

    findings failed our re-read of the raw USDA files before listing, as of Nov 7, 2026.

  • Not USDA

    We cite USDA; we are not USDA. No model writes or estimates any number.

Where the data comes from · What USDA requires of its vendors' deliveries

Questions brokers ask

Answers true as of Nov 7, 2026.

Where does the data come from?

USDA's own files: the award notice (PCA), the Bid Array spreadsheet and the solicitation, all from portal.wbscm.usda.gov . USAspending.gov supplies the vendor's federal ID. FMCSA supplies your office state when you type an MC number. Details are on Where the data comes from .

How accurate is it?
  • Every value is copied from a USDA record field. No AI writes or estimates any number.
  • Before a lane is listed, we re-read the raw USDA files and check the file hashes and the printed values. 0 of the 8,355 findings as of Nov 7, 2026 failed.
  • A separate check on Nov 6, 2026, with code that shares nothing with our engine, rebuilt 30 random findings from the live USDA and USAspending files. All 30 matched and none was false.
  • If you find an error, click “Wrong record?” on the lane in the app.
Is an award a load I can book?

No. An award is USDA's contract with a food vendor, not a tender. The vendor may already have a carrier, and USDA can change or cut a contract. We drop lanes whose contract value moved by more than 10%.

Who pays the freight?

When the award says “f.o.b. destination”, the vendor delivers at its own expense (FAR 52.247-34, in USDA's master solicitation MSCP-D ). We say so only when the notice says it for that commodity: 5,674 of 8,355 listed findings as of Nov 7, 2026. When it doesn't, we don't guess.

Which areas do you cover?
  • The 48 contiguous states and DC. Each has at least 14 lanes as of Nov 7, 2026; Texas has 862.
  • Lanes to or from Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, Hawaii and Alaska are left out, as are export (international) awards.
  • A plan covers up to 3 states. A lane counts when its plant or any destination is in them.
How fresh is it, and how often does it change?
  • We read the USDA portal every week.
  • USDA posts awards in bursts: 43 of the last 52 weeks had at least one, but the 4 weeks before this one had only 1 in total.
  • In quiet weeks the feed lists lanes whose delivery window opens that week: 1,709 findings nationwide in the week of Nov 1, 2026 – Nov 7, 2026.
  • Each lane shows its data date.
Do you give truck counts, freight prices or pickup dates?
  • Truck counts and freight prices: no. The prices in an award are delivered food prices, not freight.
  • Deliveries: we say “deliveries” only when every line is the award's standard line size. Otherwise we give the line count and total quantity.
  • Windows: they come from each line's “Required by” period. Pickup dates aren't in the record.
Do I get vendor contacts?

Vendor contacts are not included today. You get the vendor's name, the plant city and the contract number, as printed on the award.

Do other brokers see the same lanes?

Yes, they can. The awards are public, and we don't sell lanes exclusively. What you pay for is the time saved.

How do the trial and cancelling work?

14 days free with no card. After that it's $299/mo per brokerage, or the founding price of $149/mo for the first 10 brokerages, locked for 12 months. Online billing isn't switched on yet, so nothing is charged: to subscribe after the trial, book a call. Your saved lanes stay readable. See Pricing .

What do you store about me?
  • Your email, the states you pick and what you export.
  • We record how the site is used (PostHog, including session replay) to fix and improve it.
  • We don't sell your data. Details are on Security and privacy .

One plan: $299 a month per brokerage

Up to 3 states, all your users. 14-day free trial, no card. Founding price $149 a month for the first 10 brokerages, locked for 12 months.

For comparison, DAT One broker plans are $159–$449 a month (dat.com/load-boards, checked Nov 7, 2026) and show loads once they're posted. awardlanes shows USDA's contract lanes, usually before the delivery window opens.

Before you go

Take the 228 Texas lanes that opened this week

One CSV: plant, destination, delivery window and the USDA page for each.

This week is Nov 1–7, 2026. Counts as of Nov 7, 2026, from USDA's award notices. Where the data comes from

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