Definitive Contract 123J1426C0501

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $5.34 million firm-fixed-price contract to Gold Creek Foods, LLC on January 13, 2026, for the procurement and delivery of large chilled chicken in bulk to support domestic food assistance programs. The contract, with an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2026, was awarded without a small business set-aside designation. Gold Creek Foods, a chicken processor based in Gainesville, Georgia, will deliver commodities to ten distribution locations across the United States as part of the Agricultural Marketing Service's Commodity Procurement Program, which supplies products to initiatives such as the National School Lunch Program.

The solicitation, posted on January 5, 2026, called for 16.524 million pounds of chicken products with minimum shipment sizes of 40,000 pounds and deliveries scheduled for March 1-31, 2026. Gold Creek Foods' award reflects the company's established capacity to fulfill large-scale government procurement requirements, as evidenced by its history of over $71 million in federal contracts with USDA agencies for poultry products. The contract requires compliance with Agricultural Acquisition Regulation standards mandating that all commodities be products of the United States, and contractors must maintain food defense plans and adhere to GS1 Global Data Synchronization Network reporting standards. Deliveries will be made on an FOB destination basis to designated locations in California, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.