Churchfield Trading Co

Churchfield Trading Co, a woman-owned small business headquartered in Santa Ynez, California, supplies food and subsistence products to the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company competes and wins on small-business-reserved purchase orders, with 100% of its 369 federal awards since 2005 as a prime contractor and zero subcontract work.

Churchfield's footprint centers on direct food procurement for federal correctional facilities. The vendor supplies canned goods, baking ingredients, meats, dairy products, condiments, and specialized meal components including kosher and halal provisions to support inmate nutrition across the Bureau of Prisons' national menu standards. Representative work includes a $62.2 thousand canned-items purchase order to Federal Correctional Institution La Tuna (December 2023), a $53.7 thousand first-quarter food-items order to Federal Correctional Complex Victorville (September 2023), and a $48.1 thousand fourth-quarter subsistence order to Federal Correctional Institution Herlong (July 2022). Work is performed at the vendor's Santa Ynez location with delivery to correctional facilities nationwide; place of performance spans 81 distinct federal agency components, nearly all within the Bureau of Prisons system.

Customer concentration is highly dispersed across Bureau of Prisons locations. The top five facilities by award count account for only 18% of all awards: Federal Correctional Complex Victorville leads with 17 awards worth $407 thousand combined potential value, followed by Federal Correctional Institution Herlong (16 awards, $267 thousand), Federal Correctional Institution Elkton (12 awards, $86 thousand), Federal Correctional Complex Butner (11 awards, $140 thousand), and Federal Correctional Institution Terminal Island (11 awards, $61 thousand). The top five facilities by potential value represent 34% of total dollars, showing modest concentration against a broad customer base—no single Bureau of Prisons location anchors the revenue stream.

Churchfield's award portfolio is split primarily across two NAICS codes: All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (149 awards) and General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (127 awards), with smaller concentrations in Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (29 awards) and Fruit and Vegetable Canning (11 awards). PSC alignment mirrors this product posture: Food, Oils and Fats (261 awards), Bakery and Cereal Products (43 awards), Fruits and Vegetables (29 awards), and Dairy Foods and Eggs (12 awards).

Activity has accelerated over the past four years: 5 awards in 2022, 30 in 2023, 55 in 2024, 49 in 2025, and 13 thus far in 2026. The vendor secured $3.8 million in combined potential value across all 369 awards since first registering with SAM in October 2005, with obligated dollars matching potential value at 100%, indicating all awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders without unobligated ceiling exposure. Only 2 awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $9 thousand combined potential value—minimal recompete cliff exposure. Churchfield operates as a sole prime with no identified subcontractors across its entire federal footprint, managing food procurement, quality control, and direct delivery operations internally to federal correctional facilities with firm fixed-price terms and temperature-controlled transportation for perishables.