Foster Poultry Farms, LLC

Foster Poultry Farms, LLC, doing business as Foster Farms, a for-profit limited liability partnership headquartered in Livingston, California, supplies large-volume poultry commodities — chilled bulk chicken, frozen whole bagged chicken, pulled cooked chicken, boneless chicken breasts, chicken legs, leg quarters, and drumsticks — exclusively to the federal government as a prime contractor on 359 awards worth $917.6 million in combined potential value. Foster Farms competes entirely full-and-open without set-asides; all awards carry no set-aside designation, reflecting its status as an established large supplier.

The vendor's customer base is heavily concentrated in Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) work. The top five funding agencies by award count represent 87% of recent awards, with DeCA accounting for 238 awards valued at $852.6 million combined potential value — representing 93% of the vendor's total federal pipeline. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service and the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office round out the active set with 44 and 28 awards respectively, worth $37.2 million and $25.1 million combined potential value. This concentration reflects a strategic shift in Foster Farms' federal footprint: early award activity in the source data shows USDA food assistance as the dominant customer (as evidenced by contracts through 2023), but recent awards from 2024 forward are overwhelmingly DeCA transactions for poultry supply to military commissaries worldwide.

Foster Farms holds positions on five major Indefinite Delivery Contracts issued by DeCA (HDEC0106G3427, HDEC0106G3422, HDEC0106G3423, HDEC0106G3424, HDEC0106G3425), placing 25, 24, 24, 24, and 24 task orders respectively across these vehicles, with combined potential values of $94.2 million, $337.2 million, $71.3 million, $74.1 million, and $70.8 million. These IDCs represent the operational center of the vendor's federal business. USDA awards outside the DeCA channel consist primarily of definitive contracts (firm fixed-price, no set-aside) for domestic food assistance program commodities under the Agricultural Marketing Service's Master Invitation for Bids framework and the Food and Nutrition Service's commodity procurement program. Representative USDA awards include a $4.52 million Food and Nutrition Service definitive contract for pulled cooked frozen chicken in 30-pound cartons (May 2026), a $1.795 million definitive contract for large chilled bulk chicken (September 2026), and a $2.589 million multiple-award IDC with the Agricultural Marketing Service for boneless, skinless chicken breasts in individually quick-frozen 10-pound packages (January 2024).

Activity across the five-year window shows moderate fluctuation — 8 awards in 2022, rising to 17 in 2024, then declining to 11 in 2025 and 8 in 2026 year-to-date. Only three awards face completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $3.2 million, presenting minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The vendor's NAICS footprint is dominated by Poultry Processing (281 awards), with secondary work under General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (45 awards) and Poultry and Poultry Product Merchant Wholesalers (25 awards). PSC coding splits between Meat, Poultry, and Fish (174 awards) and Food Items for Resale (162 awards). Foster Farms has zero subcontract work in the source data; all activity is prime contractor activity. Performance locations center on the vendor's facilities in Livingston and Fresno, California, with distribution to military commissaries and federal food assistance distribution points nationwide and overseas. All products supplied carry Agricultural Acquisition Regulation 470-103(b) compliance — commodities must be exclusively products of the United States.