Definitive Contract 123J1426C0496

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation was awarded a $2.54M firm fixed-price definitive contract by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service on January 13, 2026, to supply large chilled bulk chicken products for domestic food assistance programs. The contract, which has no set-aside designation and was awarded through full and open competition, requires delivery of chicken commodities to a facility in Oswego, South Carolina, with a completion deadline of March 31, 2026. This procurement supports critical USDA initiatives including the National School Lunch Program and the Emergency Food Assistance Program, which provide nutritional support to low-income Americans through the distribution of domestically-produced agricultural commodities.

The underlying solicitation, posted by the Agricultural Marketing Service on January 5, 2026, sought offers for 16.52 million pounds of bulk chicken products to be delivered across ten distribution centers nationwide during March 2026. All commodities were required to be products of the United States in compliance with Agricultural Acquisition Regulation 470-103(b), and offerors had to meet stringent requirements including food defense planning, GS1 Global Data Synchronization Network reporting standards, and specific container specifications. Pilgrim's Pride, one of the world's largest chicken producers with extensive processing facilities across multiple states, demonstrated its capability to meet these requirements and was selected to fulfill a portion of this large-scale commodity procurement for the federal government.