USDA Natural American Cheese Products IDIQ 2016

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded this Master IDIQ for natural American cheese products for domestic food assistance programs on October 22, 2015, with ordering closed as of December 31, 2016. This vehicle is no longer active; all 72 task orders have been issued and fully obligated at $78.8 million combined potential value.

The vehicle procured commodity cheese exclusively through firm-fixed-price delivery orders denominated in hundreds of thousands to low millions of dollars. Task-order durations ranged from one to several months, with completion dates concentrated in late 2015 and 2016. All orders were unrestricted; no set-asides were used.

Bongards Creameries dominated by potential value, holding 12 orders worth $37.7 million—roughly 48 percent of the vehicle. Land O Lakes Inc. placed second with 29 orders aggregating $25.5 million (32 percent). Masters Gallery Foods, Incorporated and Associated Milk Producers Inc. held the remaining 24 and 7 orders respectively, at $6.5 million and $9.2 million combined potential value. The four-prime structure concentrated 48 percent of value in a single vendor while spreading order count broadly; the most active prime by count (Land O Lakes at 29 orders) contributed significantly fewer dollars than the highest-value prime (Bongards).

All 72 orders were placed by the Food and Nutrition Service itself; no customer agency diversification occurred. Task-order values in the recent sample ranged from approximately $68,500 to $5.4 million, with the largest order—Delivery Order AGDPROC160013-AGDPROD160681 to Bongards Creameries—reaching $5.411 million in September 2016. Ordering accelerated sharply in 2016, jumping from 17 orders in 2015 to 55 in 2016, front-loading the vehicle's spending in its final year.

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Commodity Procurement Staff, Dairy, Grain & Multifood Branch has awarded a Master IDIQ for procurement of Natural American Cheese Products for domestic food assistance programs.