Family And Social Services Administration, Indiana

Family And Social Services Administration, Indiana, operating through its Blind and Visually Impaired Services division, provides food service operations and military dining facility management to the Indiana National Guard and Department of Defense as a prime contractor under the Randolph-Sheppard Act, which designates state licensing agencies serving individuals who are blind or visually impaired as priority contractors for federal food service work without competitive procurement.

FSSA is a state government entity and child of the State of Indiana. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor across its federal portfolio with no subcontract footprint. Ownership and designation under the Randolph-Sheppard Act drives FSSA's entire federal contracting posture — all work flows without set-asides because the Act grants FSSA statutory priority for food service contracts at Department of Defense installations, bypassing competitive bidding.

FSSA's federal work concentrates almost entirely on military dining facility operations. Recent awards show 2,116 food service contractor awards across a portfolio of 2,240 total federal actions. The agency operates a $22.5 million single-award IDIQ contract (W912L923D0001) with the Indiana National Guard through December 31, 2029, which designates FSSA as exclusive provider of full food services at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Indiana. Under this parent vehicle alone, FSSA has executed 367 delivery orders (combined potential value $18 million) for contracted meals spanning individual training status, mobilization exercises, and JROTC/ROTC training events. Meal pricing is standardized: breakfasts at roughly $9.93 to $10.22 per meal, dinners and field feed dinners at roughly $11.04 to $11.37 per meal. Beyond Camp Atterbury, FSSA also holds three other active IDIQs with the Indiana Army National Guard — W912L915D0002 ($25.4 million, 694 task orders), W912L912D0001 ($14.6 million, 534 task orders), and W912L906D0001 ($56.4 million, 500 task orders) — providing dining facility operations across multiple National Guard installations. Delivery orders typically range from $2.5 thousand to $500 thousand and cover discrete training exercises, mobilization periods, or seasonal dining operations.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of the Army Indiana Army National Guard accounts for 2,174 awards (99% of recent activity) and $179.7 million combined potential value. The remaining federal footprint is minimal — 27 awards with the Department of the Army proper ($852 thousand), 15 grant awards with the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, and scattered awards with Training and Doctrine Command totaling less than $200 thousand.

FSSA also administers federal Title IV-E Prevention Program block grants from HHS totaling $5.1 million annually (CFDA 93.472), focusing on evidence-based mental health, substance abuse treatment, in-home parenting services, and foster care prevention across Indiana. These grants are separate from FSSA's defense contracting operations and flow through county child protection offices and nonprofit partnerships.

Activity has remained steady at 55 to 123 awards annually over the past five years, with 2,240 total awards recorded since 2005. Recent trajectory shows 98 awards in 2025 and 55 awards through mid-2026 (year-to-date). Three awards face completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $500 thousand — minimal recompete exposure given the statutory protection under Randolph-Sheppard Act designation.

FSSA operates a secondary $400,000 blanket purchase agreement with the Indiana National Guard for laundry services at Camp Atterbury and the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, with 81 drycleaning and laundry services awards recorded across the portfolio. This ancillary service line rounds out FSSA's military installation support footprint.