Advanced Commodities, Inc.

Advanced Commodities, Inc., doing business as Midwest Quality Foods, is a food manufacturing and distribution company based in Bartlett, Illinois that supplies food commodities exclusively to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a small business prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor has executed 1,497 prime purchase orders totaling $26.3 million in combined potential value across 97 distinct customer agencies, with 97% of that value already obligated. Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years—101 awards in 2022, peaking at 150 in 2023, then declining modestly to 72 awards through October 2026—but the vendor faces a recompete cliff of $523 thousand in combined potential value across 16 awards completing within the next twenty-four months.

Advanced Commodities' federal footprint is narrowly concentrated within Bureau of Prisons facilities nationwide. The top five purchasing facilities by award count—United States Penitentiary Canaan (27 awards, $559 thousand), Federal Correctional Institution Elkton (26 awards, $410 thousand), Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont (25 awards, $625 thousand), United States Penitentiary Hazleton (24 awards, $535 thousand), and Federal Correctional Institution Beckley (23 awards, $382 thousand)—account for 8% of recent awards. By combined potential value, the vendor's top five customers are Federal Correctional Complex Coleman ($1.1 million across 23 awards), Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix ($950 thousand, 20 awards), Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City ($733 thousand, 17 awards), Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood ($659 thousand, 20 awards), and Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont ($625 thousand, 25 awards), together representing 15% of combined potential value.

The vendor supplies food commodities and subsistence items exclusively to federal correctional facilities, with a product portfolio spanning meats (beef, chicken, pork, turkey, fish), dairy products, frozen foods, dry goods, canned vegetables and fruits, bakery items, and specialty meals certified to kosher and halal dietary requirements. All deliveries comply with Bureau of Prisons National Menu Specifications, USDA grading standards, and temperature-controlled logistics. Recent representative awards include $112.7 million in combined potential value across quarterly purchase orders for roast beef, chicken breast, frozen proteins, and mixed subsistence items from multiple Bureau of Prisons facilities in the fourth and first quarters of fiscal 2026. The vendor operates as a 100% small business prime contractor with no identified subcontractors, executing all contracted services independently from its distribution facility in Ontarioville, Illinois.

Advanced Commodities' award portfolio is categorized primarily under NAICS 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing, 548 awards), 311112 (General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers, 217 awards), 311612 (Meat Processed from Carcasses, 80 awards), and 311991 (Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing, 142 awards), with PSC codes dominated by Meat, Poultry, And Fish (791 awards) and Food, Oils And Fats (571 awards). The vendor sits on two indefinite delivery contracts: Indefinite Delivery Contract 4600001108 (20 task orders, $460 thousand combined value) and Indefinite Delivery Contract DJU4600001551 (4 task orders, $4 thousand combined value). Purchase orders are structured as firm fixed-price agreements flowing directly from individual Bureau of Prisons facilities rather than through centralized contract vehicles, reflecting the decentralized quarterly procurement model characteristic of the correctional system's food service sourcing.

Advanced Commodities Inc. seeks to be the most reliable, low cost supplier of quality Beef, Pork and Poultry products, and other fresh and frozen meat products.