Coca-Cola Bottling Company United Inc.

Coca-Cola Bottling Company United Inc., doing business as Coca-Cola, supplies bottled water, carbonated soft drinks, sports beverages, juices, and nutritional protein ready-to-drink products to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor operating under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The company is a for-profit manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, competing across all contract categories rather than through SBA set-asides.

The vendor's federal footprint is extraordinarily concentrated in a single vehicle and customer. Of 2,115 total awards spanning 2022 through April 2026, 2,073 (99% by count) flow to the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence division—97% of the combined potential value of $20.3 million. The remaining activity splits across the Department of the Army (25 awards), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service regions (4 awards totaling $37 thousand), and the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (1 award for $7 thousand). This concentration reflects Coca-Cola Bottling Company United Inc.'s role as the exclusive supplier under a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement valued at $250,000, effective August 7, 2022 through August 7, 2027, under the DLA Market Fresh Division.

The company executes the overwhelming majority of its federal revenue through small, frequent BPA call orders. Across five parent vehicles (all DLA Troop Support Subsistence BPAs), Coca-Cola Bottling Company United Inc. holds 1,688 task orders. The largest parent vehicle, BPA SPE30021A9331, carries 505 task orders worth $449 thousand; BPA SPE30021A9340 holds 310 task orders for $1.2 million. Individual call orders typically range from a few hundred dollars (single cases of product) to $60 thousand (large nutritional protein beverage orders). Recent award patterns show activity of 297 awards in 2022, declining to 199 in 2025 and 33 in the first quarter of 2026—consistent with the timing of the BPA recompete cycle closing in August 2027. The company fulfills orders exclusively from its manufacturing and distribution facility in Birmingham, Alabama, with firm fixed-price contracts and two-to-four-day completion cycles.

Coca-Cola Bottling Company United Inc. is a parent-level entity with no identified subcontractors on any award in the source. The source does not indicate ownership designations, subsidiary structure beyond the parent entity itself, or corporate relationships that would alter the vendor's primary market posture. The company's award portfolio reflects pure product supply—bottled water (SmartWater, Dasani), Coca-Cola branded carbonated soft drinks (Classic Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite), sports drinks (Powerade, Gatorade-class beverages), juices (orange, apple, cranberry grape), and specialized nutritional protein ready-to-drink beverages—to military dining operations across the Department of Defense. The recompete window for the parent BPA opens in 2027 and poses material opportunity for competitors seeking entry into the DLA subsistence supply chain.