Bassett Dairy Products Inc.

Bassett Dairy Products Inc., doing business as Bassett's Dairy, supplies fresh fluid dairy products—whole milk, skim milk, nonfat milk, kosher milk, cottage cheese, and sour cream in bulk and individual servings—to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on a recurring quarterly basis as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and community development corporation-owned small business headquartered in Loogootee, Indiana, with operational distribution in Perry, Florida, and operates exclusively in the federal prison food service sector with no subcontractor footprint.

Bassett Dairy's customer base is concentrated within the Bureau of Prisons facility network. The top five customer correctional facilities account for 73% of recent awards by count: Federal Correctional Institution Jesup (26 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value), Federal Correctional Institution Williamsburg (26 awards, $1.1 million), Federal Correctional Institution Bennettsville (24 awards, $1.2 million), Federal Correctional Institution Edgefield (18 awards, $1.2 million), and Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee (15 awards, $304 thousand). Dollar concentration mirrors the award-count ranking — the same five facilities account for approximately 66% of combined potential value. The vendor has worked with fifteen distinct customer agencies across the Bureau of Prisons system, including Federal Correctional Complex Pollock, Peterson, Oakdale, Coleman, and Yazoo City, and has delivered to correctional facilities across multiple states including Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Florida, Kentucky, Texas, and Indiana. Bassett Dairy operates 100% as a prime contractor; no subcontract activity is present in the award portfolio.

Award activity has remained cyclical and consistent. The vendor received twenty-five awards in 2022, declining to twenty in 2023 and fifteen in 2024, then recovering to twenty-one in 2025 and twenty-three in 2026. Total awards across all years in the source span 149 contracts with combined potential value of $9.2 million and combined obligated dollars of $8.7 million (94% of potential value). Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is limited — three awards with combined potential value of $289 thousand face ultimate completion within that window. Representative recent work includes a $164,450 purchase order from Federal Correctional Complex Yazoo City (October 2026, Total Small Business set-aside) for 550,000 individual 8-fluid-ounce servings of kosher whole milk with delivery to Perry, Florida through December 2026; a $85,950 award from Federal Correctional Institution Jesup (October 2026, Total Small Business) for subsistence dairy products through October 2026; and a $38,138 order from Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee (October 2026, Total Small Business) for pasteurized milk, cottage cheese, and sour cream through December 2026.

Bassett Dairy's capability framing is narrow and deliberately specialized. The vendor operates under NAICS codes 311511 (Fluid Milk Manufacturing), 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing), and dairy merchant wholesale classifications, with primary PSC 8910 (Dairy Foods and Eggs). All 126 of the vendor's tracked PSC 8910 awards center on the supply of pasteurized and kosher milk, cottage cheese, skim milk varieties, and related dairy subsistence items delivered on firm fixed-price purchase orders, FOB destination, with weekly or periodic delivery schedules to correctional facility food service warehouses. The vendor competes exclusively under the Total Small Business set-aside category, with a minority of awards (approximately 20 contracts) awarded without set-aside designation but still to a small business. The vendor has maintained a recurring quarterly contracting cycle with individual correctional facilities since at least 2021, with individual purchase order values typically ranging from $7,600 to $193,000 per award.