Ben E Keith Co

Ben E Keith Co, doing business as Ben E Keith Foods, is a Fort Worth, Texas-based food and beverage distribution company that supplies raw subsistence items, rations, meal components, and fresh produce to the Department of the Army and Army National Guard units across multiple states as a prime contractor, competing on full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations.

The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor—805 of 806 awards in the source data (100% of prime activity)—across 26 distinct federal customer agencies, delivering concrete subsistence logistics: raw rations for Inactive Duty Training (IDT) and annual training exercises, 92G cooking school supplies, fresh bulk meal components, dietary goods for healthcare programs, and food support for continuity-of-operations events. Recent representative work includes a $260.5 million purchase order from the Department of the Army for raw subsistence supporting Arkansas National Guard annual training in June 2025; a $240 thousand subsistence call from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District for water-borne field unit mess facilities running through June 2027; a $190 thousand purchase order from the Kansas National Guard for A-rations during annual training at Fort Riley in June 2024; and a $174 thousand delivery order from the Department of the Army for raw subsistence supporting Arkansas Army National Guard annual training in June 2023. The vendor's capability framing clusters around military food distribution logistics: procurement, warehousing, and delivery of ingredients, meal components, dry goods, canned goods, produce, meat and dairy products, and disposable service items.

Customer concentration is heavily tilted toward Army and Army National Guard entities. The Department of the Army (including all subordinate National Guard commands) accounts for 590 of 590 awards in the top-five customer ranking (73% of all awards and $31.2 million of combined potential value). Within that, the Arkansas Army National Guard, Oklahoma Army National Guard, and Kansas Army National Guard are the three most active subordinate customers by award count (129, 130, and 57 awards respectively), though the Department of the Army as a whole entity shows the largest potential-value concentration at $10.7 million across 217 awards. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ranks second by potential value ($10.4 million across 22 awards, with the Vicksburg District alone responsible for $3.1 million across 4 awards), signaling a secondary but substantial logistics relationship supporting Corps operations and training infrastructure. Indian Health Service rounds out the active customer set, holding two BPA vehicles totaling $250 thousand for dietary goods and supplies.

The vendor holds five significant Indefinite Delivery Vehicles, all single-award BPAs with no set-aside designation, anchoring task-order flow into major customer bases: an $8 million BPA with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District (May 2024–May 2027) for subsistence supporting Vicksburg and Memphis Districts field operations; a $999.95 thousand BPA with the Department of the Army for food and dining services to Arkansas National Guard locations (July 2023–June 2028); a $750 thousand BPA with the Kansas Army National Guard (May 2022–April 2027); a $250 thousand BPA with the Indian Health Service (May 2023–May 2027); and a smaller $250 thousand BPA with the Department of the Army for fresh raw rations supporting Oklahoma Army National Guard units (May 2024–May 2027). The largest single IDV—the $8 million USACE Vicksburg contract—and the Arkansas National Guard BPA generate the densest task-order activity, with 122 and 84 task orders respectively flowing through contract vehicles W912L607D0002 and W912JF12D0001. Individual task orders range from under $1 thousand to $260 thousand, reflecting the vendor's operational model of responding to recurring, monthly training cycles and facility-support requirements across geographically dispersed National Guard units and military installations.

Activity has remained steady at 33–45 awards per year across the past five years, with recent annualized run-rate holding at 42 awards in 2025 and 15 awards through April 2026. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $480 thousand, indicating minimal recompete pressure in the near term. The vendor's NAICS footprint is split between General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (304 awards) and All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (243 awards), with Food Service Contractors (114 awards) representing a smaller contingent, reflecting its dual positioning as both a food distributor and a light food-preparation service provider. Primary Service Classification codes reinforce the subsistence focus: Food, Oils and Fats (301 awards); Condiments and Related Products (224 awards); Meat, Poultry, and Fish (134 awards). Ben E Keith Foods has delivered federal contracts for over twenty years, with awards dating to October 2001, and maintains a competitive posture in full-and-open Army and National Guard procurements, where it consistently wins task orders against standing BPAs through firm fixed-price submissions.