Clark's Trading CO.

Clark's Trading CO., doing business as Clarks Trading Co., is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, that supplies food and subsistence goods exclusively to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor maintains a specialized, high-volume food distribution footprint across federal correctional facilities nationwide, delivering meats, dairy products, baked goods, canned and dry goods, frozen items, and specialty dietary products certified as kosher and halal to meet inmate population requirements.

Clark's operates as a pure small business set-aside food supplier to the Bureau of Prisons, competing under 100% small business designations across nearly all awards in the recent portfolio. The vendor has accumulated 7,815 prime contract awards totaling $153.9 million in combined potential value since 1991, with obligated dollars reaching $166.6 million. Activity has declined materially year over year—355 awards in 2022, 283 in 2023, 179 in 2024, 141 in 2025, and 29 in 2026 through October—though this trajectory reflects the quarterly purchase order cycle rather than loss of customer relationship. All awards are purchase orders with firm fixed-price structures, typically ranging from $5,000 to $90,000 per quarterly delivery cycle. The vendor competes across 99 distinct federal agencies per the source, though the portfolio is dominated by Bureau of Prisons facilities.

Customer concentration is extreme: the top five Bureau of Prisons facilities (Federal Correctional Institution Cumberland, Federal Correctional Complex Coleman, United States Penitentiary Hazleton, Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix, and Federal Correctional Institution Elkton) represent just 11 percent of award count but drive 11 percent of combined potential value. Federal Correctional Institution Cumberland alone anchors 179 awards valued at $5.1 million; the top five facilities combined account for 648 awards and $17.6 million in potential value. The Bureau of Prisons' purchasing model—monthly or quarterly subsistence solicitations across dozens of individual facilities—creates a high-frequency, low-dollar-per-award footprint. No parent vehicles or IDIQs appear in the portfolio; all work flows through individual facility purchase orders. The top three parent IDCs listed (DJB61903007, ALP30737, FORM10) carry negligible order volume.

Category concentration reinforces the subsistence supplier posture: All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311999) accounts for 2,262 awards; Meat and Meat Product Merchant Wholesalers comprises 1,092 awards; General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers totals 982 awards. PSC code coverage is dominated by Meat, Poultry, and Fish (3,836 awards) and Food, Oils and Fats (2,982 awards). The vendor's product palette spans fresh and frozen proteins, bulk dairy, institutional bakery goods, canned staples, and specialty certifications, delivered to facility warehouses on strict temperature-control and delivery-window schedules. Place of performance is consistently Wales, Wisconsin (the vendor's registered distribution hub) or Mukwonago (the corporate headquarters location), with physical delivery to each correctional facility's receiving dock.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: only three awards with combined potential value of $86 thousand face ultimate completion dates in that window. The Bureau of Prisons' quarterly procurement cycle generates renewal pressure continuously, but the vendor's established track record across dozens of facilities and decades of SAM registration (since 2003) position it for routine re-award under small business set-asides. No subcontract relationships, teaming arrangements, or parent contract vehicles are documented in the source. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor in a transactional, commodity-supply relationship with its sole customer segment.