Buona Fortuna Foods, LLC

Buona Fortuna Foods, LLC, a small family-owned limited liability company based in Modesto, California, supplies canned and dry food products to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor under recurring total small business set-asides, with all 234 awards in the source data designated as prime contracts (100% prime, 0% sub). The vendor competes exclusively under small business set-asides; the vast majority of awards carry total small business set-aside designations, with occasional full-and-open or no-set-aside orders representing less than 5% of the portfolio. Buona Fortuna Foods operates under NAICS 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing), with secondary NAICS codes in fruit and vegetable canning and meat processing, and primarily bills under PSC "Food, Oils and Fats."

Buona Fortuna's customer base concentrates entirely within the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons system, serving 34 distinct Bureau facilities nationwide. The top five facilities account for 51% of awards: Federal Correctional Complex Victorville (35 awards, $612 thousand combined potential value), Federal Correctional Complex Lompoc (33 awards, $612 thousand), Federal Correctional Institution Sheridan (20 awards, $365 thousand), United States Penitentiary Atwater (16 awards, $158 thousand), and Federal Correctional Institution Dublin (16 awards, $121 thousand). Dollar concentration mirrors award concentration — Lompoc and Victorville together account for $1.224 million (37% of the $3.3 million total portfolio value). The vendor holds no parent vehicles, IDIQs, BPAs, or GWACs; it competes and performs work solely through direct purchase orders issued by individual Bureau of Prisons facilities. Representative work includes a $60,284 delivery order from Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont (October 2026) for 8,256 cases of canned goods including garbanzo beans, tomato products, and canned vegetables; a $38,755.92 order from FCC Forrest City (October 2026) for dry goods and tomato products; and a $29,937.60 order from Federal Correctional Institution Mendota (September 2026) for subsistence items including meat, poultry, dairy, and produce.

Activity has remained relatively flat year over year (19 awards in 2022, 18 in 2023, 12 in 2024, 13 in 2025, 15 in 2026), with combined invoiced obligations at $3.1 million against a potential value of $3.3 million (96% obligated). Only 3 awards carrying combined potential value of $73 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited recompete exposure. The vendor has maintained active SAM registration since September 2013 and holds no subcontract relationships; 100% of work is performed directly from its Modesto location, with all deliveries structured as quarterly purchase orders ranging typically from $3 thousand to $40 thousand per facility per quarter. The narrow customer base (Bureau of Prisons only), small contract size, and set-aside-only competitive posture indicate a specialized, stable niche player with minimal cross-agency exposure and limited strategic relevance to federal contractors outside the corrections subsistence supply chain.