Epic Foods LLC

Epic Foods LLC, a Columbia, South Carolina-based limited liability company, manufactures and delivers precooked, sliced bacon exclusively to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Subsistence as a prime contractor under single-award indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor operates as a small business supplier within the DLA Prime Vendor Program and competes under both Total Small Business and full-and-open designations.

Epic Foods has a highly concentrated customer footprint: 100% of recent federal awards (30 total, $60.8 million combined potential value) flow from the DLA Troop Support Subsistence division. The vendor holds four active IDCs with DLA Subsistence—SPE3S117D5001, SPE3S121DZ231, SPE3S125DZ204, and SPE3S126DZ202—which collectively have generated ten, nine, five, and two delivery orders respectively. The two largest vehicles are SPE3S121DZ231 ($3.6 million across nine delivery orders) and SPE3S125DZ204 ($2.3 million across five delivery orders). Epic Foods was awarded a $25.585 million single-award IDC (SPE3S125DZ204) on May 14, 2025, running through May 13, 2030, which already carries four delivery orders totaling $1.8 million as of late July 2025. A newer $7.828 million Total Small Business single-award IDC was awarded on January 16, 2026, with completion through January 15, 2031.

Recent delivery orders exemplify the vendor's narrow scope: three June 2026 delivery orders (two Total Small Business set-aside, one full-and-open) totaled approximately $1.458 million for precooked, sliced bacon delivery; three July 2025 delivery orders each carried $449,433.60 ceiling values; and a February 2025 delivery order was valued at $460,665. All work is performed in-house at Epic Foods' Columbia facility with no identified subcontractors. The vendor has delivered approximately 2.5 million pounds of precooked, sliced bacon cumulatively since 2021, supporting military dining facilities and Unitized Group Rations programs. Activity accelerated from one award in 2022 to seven in 2025 and four in the first half of 2026. Only two awards (combined potential value $962 thousand) reach completion within the next twenty-four months, signaling limited near-term recompete exposure. Obligated dollars represent 13% of combined potential value, reflecting the typical DLA pattern of issuing firm fixed-price delivery orders against IDC ceilings. The vendor's entire federal footprint consists of bacon procurement under DLA Subsistence's food supply chain mandate for Department of Defense operations.