Forestwood Farm, Inc.

Forestwood Farm, Inc., a family-owned produce and dairy distributor based in Birmingham, Alabama, supplies USDA Grade 1 or better fresh fruits, vegetables, and shell eggs to the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence program as a prime contractor, operating exclusively without set-aside designations across a $1.1 billion combined potential value footprint.

Forestwood Farm operates as a for-profit limited liability company and has been registered in SAM since February 2002. The vendor's award footprint is heavily concentrated in fresh produce and perishable food categories: 264,684 awards fall under Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (NAICS), with an additional 32,108 awards in Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers. At the PSC level, Fruits and Vegetables account for 305,278 of the vendor's 305,400 total awards, with marginal exposure to Dairy Foods and Eggs (108 awards) and Food, Oils and Fats (10 awards). The vendor's capability portfolio centers on sourcing and delivery of fresh agricultural commodities — apples (multiple varieties including Gold Delicious and Gala), grapes, bananas, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, citrus (oranges, tangerines), melons, and vegetables including broccoli florets, carrots, celery, lettuce, salad mix, spinach, tomatoes (cherry and grape varieties), potatoes (baking and white), and squash — all delivered to military dining facilities and institutional food service operations.

Customer concentration sits entirely with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence program, which accounts for 305,317 awards (100% of DLA's typical high-volume order structure) and $1.08 billion in combined potential value. A secondary tier of Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons customers (Federal Correctional Institutions Talladega, Aliceville, and Memphis, and the Federal Correctional Complex Yazoo City) collectively carry 80 awards and $873 thousand in potential value. A single Department of Agriculture award for Specialty Crops Program carries $18.4 million, representing the vendor's only meaningful exposure outside the subsistence channel.

Forestwood Farm holds five active single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Troop Support. The primary vehicle, IDC SPE30025DSA33, awarded October 1, 2025, carries a $4.9 million ceiling through September 30, 2030, and authorizes supply to Department of Defense and USDA school nutrition programs within the North Dakota and South Dakota geographic zone. Four earlier IDCs (SPE30018DS325, SPE30024DS770, SPE30017DS302, and SPE30015DP274) collectively account for 225,568 task orders and $106.1 million in combined potential value, indicating a long-standing relationship as DLA's regional produce supplier. The contract structure reflects unrestricted competitive procurement with firm fixed-price delivery orders; individual order values have ranged from under $50 to over $6,800, with typical completion timelines of one to seven days from award, characteristic of rapid military food service replenishment cycles.

Activity has been volatile across the past five years — 39,583 awards in 2022 dropped to 2,085 in 2023 before rebounding to 24,531 in 2024 and 53,349 in 2025, with 28,538 awards recorded in 2026 through mid-April. This volume spike reflects the granular nature of DLA delivery-order issuance (hundreds of small orders per day for fresh produce) rather than changes in underlying contract position. Combined dollars obligated stand at $228.6 million across $1.1 billion in potential value, indicating invoiced performance of roughly 21% of the contract ceiling. The vendor performs all work at its Birmingham facility and competes in the full-and-open market without small business set-aside designations.