Foster-Caviness Co, Inc.

Foster-Caviness Co, Inc., doing business as Foster-Caviness Food Service, is a small business prime contractor supplying fresh produce and perishable food items to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) under total small business set-aside delivery orders. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor on a single-award indefinite delivery contract with DLA Subsistence, with no subcontractor footprint. Foster-Caviness is a Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, competing under NAICS 424230 (Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers) with primary PSC coding in Fruits and Vegetables.

Foster-Caviness holds a $10 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with DLA Subsistence awarded April 24, 2025, running through April 23, 2030, that procures fresh produce on firm fixed-price terms for supply to military dining facilities, schools, and other federal government institutions. The vendor maintains required Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act licensing and USDA Good Agricultural Practices and Good Handling Practices certifications. Recent delivery orders span July 2026 and June 2026 across a diverse produce portfolio including fresh apples, asparagus, avocados, blackberries, blueberries, broccoli florets and crowns, cantaloupes, carrots, cauliflower, celery, grapes, honeydew melons, lettuce, oranges (both naval and US Fancy varieties), pears, potatoes (baking and white), red potatoes, salad mix, strawberries, sweet peppers, and tomatoes. Individual delivery orders range from under $100 to approximately $7.9 million in potential value. Representative recent awards include a $3.1 million delivery order on July 16, 2026, for fresh cantaloupe; a $6.4 million delivery order on July 16, 2026, for fresh blueberries; and a $4.4 million delivery order on July 16, 2026, for fresh strawberries, all under total small business set-aside posture to DLA Subsistence.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence accounts for 198,467 awards and $735.5 million in combined potential value — 100% of the top-customer coverage and 90% of total dollars. The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office, the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex Butner, and the Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Bennettsville together represent fewer than 35 awards and less than $5.1 million in combined potential value. Activity volume is significant: the vendor received 14,271 awards in 2026 (through July 16), 41,090 in 2025, and 9,400 in 2024. Combined potential value across all prime awards totals $821 million, with $166.5 million obligated (20% draw-down). Foster-Caviness operates under five named parent IDIQs with DLA Subsistence: IDC SPE30017DS310 (33,216 task orders, $16.5 million), IDC SPE30025DSA88 (28,891 task orders, $23 million), IDC SPE30017DSA13 (27,680 task orders, $10.1 million), IDC SPE30020DSA42 (27,399 task orders, $15.5 million), and IDC SPE30024DS422 (24,461 task orders, $9.5 million). All work is performance of small-business delivery orders — the vendor does not hold higher-schedule vehicles, GWACs, or multi-agency agreements. The business model is transactional: rapid-turnaround produce fulfillment at scale to a single federal customer through multiple parallel IDC vehicles, with typical order completion windows of two to seven days.