A.f. Cleansvendornametrait.phpwendling, Inc.

A.F. Cleansvendornametrait.phpwendling, Inc., doing business as Wendlings Food Service, supplies frozen and raw meat products, dairy, produce, grains, and prepared meals to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a small-business prime contractor, operating exclusively under total small-business set-asides across nearly all of its federal award footprint. The company is a for-profit West Virginia manufacturer and food service provider headquartered in Buckhannon with primary NAICS codes spanning 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing), food merchant wholesale, and perishable prepared food manufacturing; it competes entirely within set-aside vehicles and does not hold seats on government-wide contracts or IDIQs.

Wendlings Food Service's customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The top five Bureau of Prisons facilities account for 67 percent of all awards and 65 percent of combined potential value, with United States Penitentiary Hazleton (136 awards, $2.3 million), Federal Correctional Institution Cumberland (142 awards, $1.3 million), Federal Prison Camp Alderson (68 awards, $1.1 million), Federal Correctional Institution McDowell (59 awards, $986 thousand), and Federal Correctional Institution Gilmer (51 awards, $754 thousand) anchoring the footprint. All 14 customer agencies the vendor serves are Bureau of Prisons facilities across West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia. The vendor holds no significant vehicle position beyond a single indefinite delivery contract (DJB10303023) carrying 10 task orders worth $386 thousand; its award pattern instead reflects quarterly purchase orders issued directly by individual facilities for subsistence supplies.

Representative prime work spans meats—a $74,700 purchase order from United States Penitentiary Hazleton for frozen and raw beef, chicken, tilapia, sausage, and turkey meeting USDA Grade A standards (awarded July 1, 2026)—dairy and shortening procurement, a $24,684.60 order from Federal Correctional Institution Cumberland for butter, cheese, and shortening (July 1, 2026)—and broad subsistence procurement. A $137,396.06 award from Federal Correctional Complex Petersburg for third-quarter FY26 food service supplies (April 1, 2026) and a $56,343.44 delivery to Federal Correctional Institution Gilmer for fourth-quarter FY24 subsistence spanning meats, dairy, produce, and prepared foods (July 11, 2024) exemplify the scope. All awards carry firm fixed-price terms and performance in Buckhannon, West Virginia or subordinate facility locations.

Activity has declined markedly. The vendor earned 49 awards in 2022, 43 in 2023, 24 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 10 year-to-date in 2026—a drop of 80 percent from peak. The combined potential value across 676 total awards stands at $10 million with $9.5 million obligated (95 percent execution rate), averaging $14,792 per award. Only one award—valued at $75 thousand—faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure but reflecting the vendor's current thinned pipeline. The vendor operates as a 100 percent prime contractor with no subcontract footprint and no major sub-tier relationships; all work is performed directly from Buckhannon or subordinate Bureau of Prisons warehouse locations.

Wendlings Food Service has supplied Bureau of Prisons facilities continuously since SAM.gov registration in May 2001, establishing itself as a long-standing regional food service provider. The company's federal footprint is entirely commodity food supply to the correctional system, with no diversification across other customer agencies, procurement vehicles, or service lines. Its set-aside posture is categorical: all awards carry total small-business designation, reflecting the Bureau's commitment to small-business participation in subsistence procurement. The vendor's award trajectory and single-customer-category dependency create high execution risk if Bureau of Prisons consolidates its food service supplier base or shifts procurement strategy away from quarterly small-business set-asides to larger, multi-facility contracts.