A.j. Wholesale Produce Inc.

A.J. Wholesale Produce Inc., a woman-owned small business and Department of Transportation-certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, supplies fresh produce and shell eggs to the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence program as a prime contractor operating under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime on the subsistence side — 100% of its 146,947 awards across all federal sources are prime contracts or indefinite delivery vehicles, with negligible subcontracting activity.

A.J. Wholesale Produce Inc.'s customer concentration is extraordinarily narrow. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence program accounts for 146,933 awards (99.99% of all awards) and $598.7 million in combined potential value (98% of total portfolio value). The sole secondary customer is the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Oxford, represented by one award worth $984. The vendor operates delivery orders sourced through multiple standing indefinite delivery vehicles with DLA Troop Support, primarily for schools and reservations in Upper Michigan and Wisconsin; the largest parent vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE30023DSA58, carries 44,043 task orders worth $35.5 million in combined potential value. Four other IDVs (SPE30021DSA94, SPE30023DSA59, SPE30019DSA54, and SPE30025DS781) collectively support 97,862 additional task orders worth $77.4 million.

The vendor's capability portfolio is granular and commoditized. Recent awards show delivery orders for strawberries, fresh apples (Gala and standard varieties), carrots (chilled), broccoli florets, celery, lettuce, clementines, oranges, pears, cauliflower, tomatoes, and shell eggs — individual orders ranging from under $200 to approximately $2,900. All work is priced firm fixed-price with rapid fulfillment cycles (completion dates typically matching award dates, indicating same-order-cycle delivery). A single-award IDV worth $4.9 million awarded August 10, 2025, with completion August 9, 2030, had generated approximately $2.5 million in cumulative task orders by the award date, demonstrating consistent weekly or bi-weekly ordering patterns.

Activity has been flat and high-volume across the past five years: 24,980 awards in 2022, peaking at 29,700 in 2023, and settling into 27,708–28,097 annually through 2025. The first quarter of 2026 shows 8,875 awards (pace annualizes to roughly 35,500 if sustained), indicating possible acceleration or seasonal variation. Portfolio concentration by NAICS reflects the vendor's commodity role: Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (85,028 awards), General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (32,856), and Commercial Bakeries (28,483) dominate; Fruits and Vegetables (146,836 awards) account for 99.9% of PSC coding. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $608.9 million, with $137.9 million obligated (23% realization rate), suggesting a large queue of standing but unfulfilled orders typical of subsistence supply vehicles.

WOMEN OWNED WHOLESALE PRODUCE,PACKER AND SHIPPER OF FRUITS AND VEGTABLES ALSO DISTRIBUTING DAIRY PRODUCTS CANNED AND DRIED PRODUCTS.