Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that has been selected as one of the five large business awards by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Mission Area in a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide software development services and help support USDA's digital modernization journey. The estimated worth of the combined task orders to be separately competed under this BPA – which over 30 vendors competed on – is $620M over the next five years. Under this BPA multi-award, IBM can compete to work with the Mission Area to help modernize legacy applications that support the conservation programs administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Farm Services Agency (FSA).