Butterball LLC

Butterball LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Garner, North Carolina, supplies chilled bulk turkey and turkey products to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor on full-and-open (non-set-aside) definitive contracts. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime across its federal footprint — 301 awards spanning more than three decades, with zero subcontract exposure — and competes on commercial commodity procurement vehicles under NAICS 311615 (Poultry Processing) and PSC 8905 (Meat, Poultry, and Fish).

Butterball's customer base concentrates entirely within USDA. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service anchors the portfolio with 85 awards valued at $105.1 million combined potential value, while the Agricultural Marketing Service Livestock Poultry and Seed Program follows with 28 awards valued at $47.1 million. The Agricultural Marketing Service (main office) contributes 93 awards, and the Defense Commissary Agency places 26 awards; these five customers account for 81% of award volume and 82% of combined potential value. The vendor has delivered over 200 million pounds of turkey products to USDA agencies in historical performance.

Recent awards demonstrate consistent demand for bulk turkey commodity supply. Representative recent contracts include a $5.8 million definitive award from USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (August 26, 2024) for 2,000 turkey breast products totaling 34–42 pounds each, period of performance January–March 2025; a $897,120 definitive contract from the Agricultural Marketing Service (December 10, 2025) for approximately 3.1 million pounds of chilled bulk turkey and boneless, skinless turkey thighs with delivery across Huntsville, Arkansas; Willmar, Minnesota; Sanford, North Carolina; and Harrison, Ohio; and a $728,640 award from the Food and Nutrition Service (September 10, 2026) for chilled bulk turkey commodities, place of performance Huntsville, Arkansas, completion November 30, 2026.

Activity has remained relatively stable — three awards in 2022, five in 2023, seven in 2024, six in 2025, and three in 2026 (year-to-date as of mid-October) — with only one award scheduled for recompete within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $729 thousand). Butterball places task orders under three Defense Commissary Agency indefinite delivery contracts (DECA0101G2541, DECA0100G2199, and DECA0102G2741), which together account for seven task orders. All awards carry firm fixed-price commercial acquisition pricing and no set-aside designations, though underlying solicitations frequently include 50% small business set-asides that Butterball does not access as the winning bidder.