American Beef Packers, Inc.

American Beef Packers, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Chino, California, supplies frozen and fresh ground beef products to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor under partial and total small business set-asides, competing predominantly in set-aside categories across 305 federal contracts valued at $791.5 million over the past seventeen years.

American Beef Packers operates exclusively in NAICS 311612 (Meat Processed from Carcasses) and PSC 8905 (Meat, Poultry, and Fish), with 100% of its federal footprint concentrated in USDA commodity procurement for domestic food assistance programs. The vendor delivers coarse ground beef in 60-pound containers, fine ground beef in 40-pound containers and 1-pound packages, and fresh boneless bulk beef combinations in 20/2,000-pound configurations—all U.S.-sourced products delivered on an FOB destination or origin basis to support The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), and the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR). Recent representative contracts include a $12.045 million definitive award from the Food and Nutrition Service on July 1, 2026, for frozen coarse ground beef in 60-pound containers (ultimate completion September 30, 2026); a $12.365 million contract on March 11, 2026, for mixed coarse ground and fresh boneless bulk beef (ultimate completion June 21, 2026); and a $6.805 million award on March 24, 2025, for 2.058 million pounds of coarse ground frozen beef with delivery to Vernon, California and Harrison, Ohio. The vendor carries a sustained track record dating to 2009, with historical contract values ranging from approximately $52,000 to over $12.4 million.

Customer concentration is absolute within the Department of Agriculture. The Food and Nutrition Service (201 awards, $563.5 million combined potential value) and the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office (98 awards, $212.9 million) account for 100% of recent awards; the Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office (5 awards, $14 million) and the Agricultural Marketing Service Livestock Poultry and Seed Program (1 award, $1.2 million) round out the footprint. Awards are issued as definitive, firm-fixed-price contracts with performance periods typically spanning one to three months and completion dates concentrated in the final day of each month. Set-aside designations appear on approximately 65% of recent awards—partial small business set-asides predominate, with some solicitations layering 30% small business and 10% service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-asides; approximately 35% of awards carry no set-aside designation, indicating American Beef Packers competes across both set-aside and full-and-open categories.

Activity has remained relatively flat year over year—ten awards in 2022, twelve in 2023, eleven in 2024, eight in 2025, and five in 2026 through early July—with only two awards (combined potential value $17.2 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The vendor obligated $786.4 million against its $791.5 million combined potential value (99% of ceiling), reflecting consistent invoice-rate execution across the portfolio. American Beef Packers operates as a pure prime contractor with no subcontract footprint; the vendor maintains all beef processing and nationwide distribution capabilities in-house from its Montclair, California facility and subordinate distribution points in Vernon, California, Hamilton, Ohio, Harrison, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and other states.