Ems Suppliers Inc.

Ems Suppliers Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Spring Valley, New York, supplies certified kosher and halal food products to federal correctional facilities as a prime contractor, exclusively under small-business set-asides or full-and-open competition with no subcontract work. The company is registered in SAM.gov since 2014 and has built its federal footprint almost entirely on purchase orders for religious dietary and specialty food provisioning to the Bureau of Prisons.

Ems Suppliers operates in a narrow and deep market: 156 of its 296 prime awards fall under NAICS 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing), with 99 additional awards in NAICS 311412 (Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing). At the PSC level, 192 awards code to Special Dietary Foods And Food Specialty Preparations, and 87 to Food, Oils And Fats. The company's representative work is concentrated in quarterly and Passover meal cycles across the federal prison system. Recent examples include a $72,911 total small business set-aside purchase order from Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix (October 1, 2026) for kosher-certified food products with delivery by December 31, 2026; a $30,544 order from the same facility (July 1, 2026) for kosher meals meeting Chicago Rabbinical Council standards; and a $34,723 award from Federal Correctional Institution Otisville (April 1, 2026) for certified kosher and halal food covering 39 line items totaling over 9,000 individual food units. All products must comply with Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act standards, allergen labeling regulations, and strict religious certification requirements, with temperature-controlled, palletized delivery to facility warehouses within specified time windows.

Customer concentration is extreme and stable. The top five Bureau of Prisons facilities account for 68% of the 296 awards and 81% of the $6.9 million combined potential value. Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix leads both rankings with 56 awards ($1.9 million potential value), closely followed by Federal Correctional Institution Otisville with 57 awards ($1.6 million), and Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn with 47 awards ($1.4 million). These three locations represent roughly 50% of all awards. The remaining 47 distinct customer agencies served are all Bureau of Prisons facilities or related detention centers. Ems Suppliers has no work outside the federal corrections system within the visible award portfolio.

Award volume has remained steady at 22–24 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with 17 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Across the 296 awards spanning from June 2015 to October 1, 2026, the combined obligated value matches the combined potential value at $6.9 million, indicating full execution. Only one award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, carrying $73 thousand in potential value, suggesting minimal near-term recompete exposure. The company competes under Total Small Business set-aside designation in the majority of awards, with a portion awarded full-and-open without set-aside (particularly Passover-cycle orders at certain facilities). Each purchase order is firm fixed-price with individual values ranging from approximately $10 thousand to over $100 thousand, and all work is performance-based from the vendor's Spring Valley, New York location with delivery to specific Bureau of Prisons facilities nationwide, including locations in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Michigan, Texas, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and South Carolina.