Ameriqual Group, LLC

Ameriqual Group, LLC, operating as Ameriqual Packaging, manufactures shelf-stable canned and pouched meat, poultry, and specialty food commodities for federal food assistance and nutrition programs as a prime contractor under full-and-open competition, with zero subcontract footprint and no SBA set-aside designations across 160 recent awards totaling $685.1 million in combined potential value.

Ameriqual is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, and competes exclusively as a large established contractor on unrestricted solicitations. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on specialty canning and poultry processing (76 and 48 awards respectively across NAICS 311612 and related codes), with secondary production in dry pasta, dough products, frozen fruits and vegetables, and roasted nuts. Representative work includes a $47.5 million delivery order from the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service for beef chili with beans and beef stew to support domestic food assistance programs (awarded August 3, 2023); a $20.6 million delivery order for canned beef stew (awarded April 12, 2024); and a $39.9 million indefinite delivery contract for approximately 600 million pounds of beef chili without beans and beef stew through June 2024 (awarded April 2, 2024). Place of performance is consistently Evansville, Indiana, with FOB origin delivery to multiple U.S. locations and territories including Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to two Department of Agriculture offices. The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office anchors 28 awards worth $371.4 million in combined potential value, while the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) holds 114 awards worth $272.3 million. Together, these two offices represent approximately 97% of Ameriqual's award count and the full scope of its potential value. The disparity between volume and dollars reflects that USDA/AMS places larger-value delivery orders while FNS issues numerous smaller definitive contracts. Secondary customers include the Federal Emergency Management Agency (three awards, $36.6 million combined potential value), the Department of the Army Materiel Command Sustainment Command (eight awards, $151 thousand), the Defense Logistics Agency (three awards), and the Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office (two awards, $4.6 million).

Ameriqual holds four named indefinite delivery contracts generating active task orders. The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service multiple-award IDC 123J1424D0042 carries a $39.9 million ceiling and generated two task orders; IDC 123J1420D0008 carries an $8 million combined potential value across eight task orders; IDC 123J1419D0017 carries $10.5 million across 11 task orders; and the Department of the Army Materiel Command IDC W911QY07A0038 carries $43 thousand across five task orders. The FEMA Short Shelf Life Meals IDV from 2014–2016 generated two task orders worth $13.8 million. Task orders under these vehicles are styled as delivery orders against larger master solicitation instruments for commodity procurement.

Activity trajectory shows cyclical volume with 13 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 22 in 2024, declining to 9 in 2025, and 4 through August 2026. The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months is minimal — only one award with combined potential value of $2.7 million completes by October 2027 — reflecting the rolling nature of USDA commodity procurements and frequent rebidding on successive annual or multi-year vehicles rather than cliff-driven recompetes. Combined dollars obligated total $534.4 million, representing 78% of the combined potential value ceiling, indicating predictable cash draw. Over the five-year window, Ameriqual has supplied over 600 million pounds of meat commodities across canned beef stew, beef chili with and without beans, canned and pouched chicken, pork, and specialized products including vegetable and mushroom soups, whole grain pasta, and peanut butter to USDA programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the National School Lunch Program, and broader domestic food donation initiatives. The source notes that Ameriqual held multiple active IDCs with USDA valued at over $74 million as recently as May 2023, with that total rising to at least $109 million by mid-2023 as new vehicles were awarded.

Corporate structure includes three named limited liability company entities: Ameriqual Group, LLC (parent, the contracting entity), Ameriqual Group LLC (subsidiary), and Thermo Pac, LLC (subsidiary). All are for-profit limited liability companies; no ownership designations, minority ownership, or SBA certifications are noted in the source.