Burnette Foods, Inc.

Burnette Foods, Inc. Elk Rapids Division, a Michigan-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, supplies canned and frozen commodity foods—particularly shelf-stable vegetables, fruits, beans, and juices—to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor on definitive contracts and delivery orders. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements without small-business set-asides, though it has received numerous contracts under partial and total small-business set-asides, placing it as a capable vendor in competitive commodity markets rather than as a set-aside specialist.

Burnette Foods' federal work concentrates on a single customer and mission: supplying canned and frozen fruits, vegetables, beans, and juices to USDA domestic food assistance programs, chiefly the National School Lunch Program and food bank distributions. The vendor's concrete capability portfolio centers on canned applesauce (in cups, cans, and unsweetened formats), canned and frozen green beans (in 6/10 and 24/300 can configurations), white sliced potatoes (24/300 cans), canned dried beans (black turtle, garbanzo, pinto, kidney, blackeye, pink, small red, and baby lima varieties in 6/10 and 24/300 cans), bottled juices (apple, cherry apple, cranberry apple in 8/64 fl oz plastic bottles), canned plums, pumpkin, and V-cut green beans. Representative work includes a $4.783 billion applesauce definitive contract (July 31, 2025, USDA AMS, partial small business set-aside), an $11.651 million applesauce and apple juice definitive contract (June 12, 2023, USDA FNS, total small business set-aside), a $3.1 million canned bean definitive contract (May 16, 2023, USDA AMS, partial small business set-aside), and a $2.615 million canned green bean definitive contract (May 20, 2024, USDA AMS, no set-aside). Performance locations are distributed across the vendor's Michigan production facilities: Hartford (applesauce and juice), Elk Rapids (applesauce and plums), New Era (beans and vegetables), and East Jordan (white sliced potatoes).

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 405 awards (51% of the 787 total) and $353 million in combined potential value (55% of $637 million total), and the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office accounts for 131 awards and $167.9 million. Together, USDA (in all offices) represents effectively 100% of the vendor's federal footprint; no other agency is named in the top customers. Activity has remained stable to moderately declining: 2022 (36 awards), 2023 (43 awards), 2024 (53 awards, peak), 2025 (50 awards), 2026 year-to-date (18 awards in six months). Eleven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $4.6 million, representing a modest recompete exposure.

The vendor holds multiple active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with USDA Food and Nutrition Service and Agricultural Marketing Service. The largest visible vehicles are an indefinite delivery contract (Food and Nutrition Service, $13.053 million ceiling, expires September 30, 2025) for canned and frozen seasonal vegetables, an indefinite delivery contract (Food and Nutrition Service, $9.11 million ceiling, expires September 30, 2026) for canned green beans and white sliced potatoes awarded October 1, 2025, and an indefinite delivery contract (Food and Nutrition Service, $18.466 million ceiling, expires September 30, 2027) for the same commodity mix awarded April 16, 2026. The $18.466 million vehicle has issued task orders for $888,256.80 (white sliced potatoes, June 2026), $844,667.04 (canned green beans, June 2026), and $708,135.19 (canned green beans, April 2026), indicating active utilization. All IDIQ vehicles carry firm fixed-price task order terms and are designated as partial or total small-business set-asides.

Burnette Foods operates as a parent corporation with no named subsidiaries in the award record and maintains no documented subcontract relationships in federal work; all 787 awards are primes. The company has maintained continuous federal contractor registration since April 2001. All commodities supplied under USDA contracts must be grown, processed, and prepared exclusively in the United States in compliance with Agricultural Acquisition Regulation requirements, a compliance posture Burnette Foods meets through its Michigan production footprint. The vendor's primary NAICS coding is 311421 (Fruit and Vegetable Canning), with PSC 8915 (Fruits and Vegetables) covering 776 of the 787 awards.