135 Foods Inc.

Boxcar Grille 135 Foods Inc., a for-profit catering company based in Claremont, North Carolina, provides on-site meal preparation and delivery services to the Department of the Army as a prime contractor exclusively under small-business set-asides and full-and-open awards. The company operates as a sole proprietor entity with no subcontract footprint; all 32 recent federal awards are prime contracts or contract IDVs.

Boxcar Grille's customer base is concentrated entirely within the Department of the Army. The top two customer entities — the Department of the Army proper and the North Carolina Army National Guard — account for 100% of recent awards (17 and 15 awards respectively). The dollar-value split tilts toward the NCARNG: that entity anchors $2 million in combined potential value across 15 awards, while the broader Army organization carries $296 thousand across 17 awards. This concentration reflects Boxcar Grille's geographic and operational lock into North Carolina-based Army training units and home-station feeding operations.

Boxcar Grille operates from two parent BPAs. The primary vehicle is BPA W9124221A0004, a multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement established with the Department of the Army (general) that has generated 13 task orders valued at $212 thousand combined; this agreement carries a $245,000 ceiling. The secondary vehicle is BPA W9124217A0001, which produced 3 task orders worth $36 thousand combined. Most recently, on April 1, 2026, Boxcar Grille was awarded a new five-year multiple-award BPA from the North Carolina Army National Guard (solicitation W91242-26-Q-0031) with a $975,000 ceiling and an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2031. This successor agreement establishes fixed unit pricing ($12 per breakfast, $17 per lunch and dinner, $25 maximum delivery fee per day) and requires compliance with FDA Food Code standards and a minimum 93% health inspection rating. Individual task orders under the new NCARNG BPA are capped at $100,000.

Representative recent work includes catered meal delivery to Morganton, North Carolina from March 13–19, 2026 ($14,600, Total Small Business set-aside); meal services to Camp Mooresville, North Carolina from March 3–25, 2025 ($17,856, Total Small Business); and breakfast and dinner meals in Claremont, North Carolina from July 21–August 4, 2023 ($18,677, no set-aside). Awards show a pattern of three-to-four-week performance windows supporting identified Army units (878th Army Training, 1454th Headquarters and Support Company, HSC 130 MEB) and home-station operations across North Carolina and into Fort Pickett, Virginia. The company maintains a food preparation facility within 60 minutes of all feeding locations and employs Food Managers Certificate holders to oversee operations.

Activity has remained flat to modest — two to four awards annually from 2023 through 2026 — with combined potential value across all 32 awards of $2.3 million and only $394 thousand obligated to date (17% of potential value). The new NCARNG BPA effective April 2026 represents the highest-value vehicle in Boxcar Grille's footprint and signals capacity to scale delivery across a broader geographic and operational scope than the predecessor $245,000 agreements.