Caviness Beef Packers, LIMITED

Caviness Beef Packers, LIMITED, operating through its Caviness Beef Packers LTD Division, manufactures frozen and fresh beef commodities exclusively for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's domestic food assistance programs as a prime contractor competing under full-and-open procurement, with no set-aside utilization across its federal footprint.

The company is a for-profit partnership or limited liability partnership based in Amarillo, Texas, operating production facilities in Timbercreek Canyon, Texas. Caviness is a family-owned beef packing operation with over 60 years of industry experience. Under NAICS 311612 (Meat Processed from Carcasses) and PSC 8905 (Meat, Poultry, and Fish), the vendor manufactures beef products exclusively: coarse ground beef in 60-pound containers, fine ground beef in 40-pound cartons and individual 1-pound packages, beef patties at multiple lean-to-fat ratios (85/15 and 90/10), boneless beef special trim, and fresh boneless bulk combo packs. All products are required to be grown, processed, and prepared exclusively in the United States per federal content standards. Representative work includes a $21.3 million contract with USDA Food and Nutrition Service for frozen and fresh beef products (September 15, 2025), a $18.65 million contract for ground and specialty trim beef (December 11, 2025), and an $8.5 million contract for coarse and fine ground beef in multiple formats (February 11, 2026).

Customer concentration is absolute and singular. All 438 awards across the entire prime footprint derive from the Department of Agriculture, split between two principal offices: the Food and Nutrition Service (296 awards, $708.7 million combined potential value) and the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office (135 awards, $240.2 million combined potential value). Four awards ($7.6 million) flow through the Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office, and two awards ($1.2 million) through the Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crops Program. The top two offices account for 100 percent of dollar value and award count combined.

Contract awards are definitive, firm-fixed-price agreements with no parent vehicles. All work is direct delivery against solicitations from USDA's Commodity Procurement Program for frozen and fresh beef products destined for domestic food assistance, nutrition assistance, and food donation initiatives. Awards cluster in delivery windows of one to three months, with products distributed to multiple locations across the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and U.S. territories.

Activity has remained steady. The vendor received 25 awards in 2022, 24 in 2023, 30 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 3 year-to-date in 2026 (latest award July 1, 2026). Combined potential value across 438 awards totals $958 million, with $939.4 million obligated (98 percent execution rate). Only one award ($1.7 million combined potential value) completes within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure in that window.

The vendor has maintained a 100 percent prime-contract posture with zero subcontract work. All work is performed in-house at the Timbercreek Canyon production facility. Caviness competes exclusively on full-and-open solicitations; no awards carry small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, 8(a), HUBZone, or other set-aside designations, despite originating solicitations that frequently reserve portions for such categories.