Clipper Commodities Inc.

Clipper Commodities Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and Department of Transportation-certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise based in Pasadena, California, supplies food commodities and subsistence items to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively as a direct prime to the Bureau of Prisons network, with no subcontract activity or prime work outside the federal corrections system in the source data.

The company's concrete capability set centers on quarterly and episodic procurement of food products for federal correctional institutions nationwide. Clipper delivers meat, poultry, seafood, dairy products, frozen goods, canned vegetables, dry goods, baked items, and specialized dietary items including kosher and halal certified meals. Recent representative awards include a $93.2 million firm fixed-price purchase order from Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont (July 2025) for dry goods including rice, spaghetti, breakfast pastries, and coffee cake mix under the FY25 4th quarter national menu; a $59.3 million order from Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn (July 2024) for meat, kosher/halal products, milk, and other subsistence items for 4th quarter fiscal year 2024; and a $46.5 million contract from Federal Correctional Complex Coleman (March 2024) for national menu items across multiple food categories. All awards operate under firm fixed-price terms with place of performance in Pasadena, California and delivery to individual correctional facilities across CONUS locations.

Customer concentration is highly fragmented across the Bureau of Prisons' 92 distinct facility locations. The top five facilities by award count—Federal Correctional Complex Victorville (54 awards, $1.1 million), Federal Correctional Institution Herlong (52 awards, $505 thousand), United States Penitentiary Atwater (47 awards, $767 thousand), Federal Correctional Institution Mendota (43 awards, $489 thousand), and Federal Correctional Institution Dublin (42 awards, $364 thousand)—represent only 21% of total awards. Dollar concentration mirrors this pattern, with Victorville, Beaumont, Atwater, Lompoc, and Tucson anchoring 26% of combined potential value. No IDIQs, GWACs, BPAs, or agency-wide vehicles appear in the award footprint; every contract is a direct purchase order from an individual Bureau of Prisons facility under solicitation 15B series numbers and Unison Marketplace buys.

Clipper has won 1,155 awards since October 2004, predominantly in calendar years 2022 through 2025. Activity declined slightly from 2022 (71 awards) to 2023 (54 awards), recovered to 69 in 2024, declined again to 56 in 2025, and shows 10 awards year-to-date in 2026. Combined potential value across all awards totals $15.5 million, with $15.4 million (99%) obligated. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months carries minimal exposure—only 2 awards worth $5 thousand face completion. Procurement taxonomy is tightly concentrated within food manufacturing: All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311999, 600 awards), Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (111 awards), General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (92 awards), Cheese Manufacturing (83 awards), and Meat Processed from Carcasses (62 awards) dominate the portfolio. By PSC code, Food, Oils and Fats (556 awards) and Meat, Poultry, and Fish (309 awards) drive volume, with Dairy Foods and Eggs (204 awards) and Bakery products (37 awards) completing the mix.

The vendor competes exclusively under total small business set-asides across the entire footprint; no full-and-open or other set-aside category awards are present. Clipper maintains no documented subcontractor relationships and operates without parent vehicles, teaming arrangements, or indirect relationships to prime contractors. The company's federal activity is entirely self-contained, composed of routine quarterly and ad-hoc food supply contracts to support inmate feeding operations across the Bureau of Prisons' facility network.

Frozen Wholesale foods: Pastries, Proteins, Fruit, Cheese