Furman Foods Inc.

Furman Foods Inc., doing business as Furmano Foods Inc., manufactures and supplies canned vegetable commodities — principally tomato sauce, meatless spaghetti sauce, and dried beans — to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor under partial and total small business set-asides. The company is a for-profit, family-owned manufacturer based in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, with all recent federal work classified under NAICS 311421 (Fruit and Vegetable Canning) and PSC 8915 (Fruits and Vegetables). Furman Foods operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the vendor award portfolio shows zero subcontract exposure across 225 total awards.

Customer concentration at Furman Foods is extreme and entirely within USDA. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service and Agricultural Marketing Service account for 88% of awards by count and 94% by combined potential value. The Food and Nutrition Service leads with 69 awards and $38.9 million in potential value, followed by the Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crops Program (47 awards, $18.7 million), the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office (29 awards, $18.1 million), the core Agricultural Marketing Service (49 awards, $2.9 million), and the Livestock Poultry and Seed Program (4 awards, $2.6 million). These five customer buckets represent the entire addressable market for this vendor within federal procurement.

Furman Foods holds a single Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC 123J1424D0021) with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, valued at $2.763 million with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2024, that supplies canned tomato sauce, corn, diced tomatoes, black beans, and dark red kidney beans. The balance of recent work consists of definitive firm fixed-price delivery orders and task orders under that IDC or responsive to individual USDA solicitations. Representative recent awards include a $2.52 million partial small-business-set-aside definitive contract (May 2026) for tomato sauce and meatless spaghetti sauce in 24/300 and 6/10 can configurations; a $1.49 million partial small-business-set-aside definitive contract (July 2025) for tomato and spaghetti sauce; a $2.627 million partial small-business-set-aside definitive contract (November 2024) for tomato and meatless spaghetti sauce; and a $2.737 million delivery order (April 2024) for tomato sauce. All work is performed in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, with FOB delivery to domestic locations nationwide.

Activity has remained stable but modest. Five awards in 2026 (through August), seven in 2025, ten in 2024, eight in 2023, and seven in 2022 reflect consistent but unspectacular volume. The recompete cliff is minimal: only two awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $691 thousand. However, the core IDC expires December 31, 2024, and recompete or follow-on vehicle award will be a critical event for Furman Foods' federal revenue stream.

Furman Foods has received two federal grants from USDA. A $1 million Rural Business Cooperative Services grant under the Rural Energy for America Program (CFDA 10.868) was awarded January 21, 2025, for renewable energy and efficiency improvements at the Pennsylvania facility, with ultimate completion January 21, 2027. An earlier COVID-19 pandemic relief grant from the Agricultural Marketing Service (awarded January 3, 2022) supported workplace safety, market pivots, facility retrofitting, transportation, worker housing, and medical costs between the public health emergency declaration in January 2020 and December 31, 2021.

Furman Foods operates almost exclusively under partial or total small business set-asides. Of 225 total awards, the overwhelming majority carry partial small business designations, with occasional total small business or no-set-aside awards. The vendor is registered as a federal contractor since 1999 and competes primarily within USDA's commodity procurement programs for domestic food assistance, National School Lunch, and related nutrition initiatives. No parent vehicles beyond the single IDC are referenced in the award history, and no teaming or subcontract relationships appear in the source data.