Gold Creek Foods, LLC

Gold Creek Foods, LLC, doing business as Gold Creek Corporate LLC, supplies large chilled bulk chicken to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor on full-and-open definitive contracts for federal food donation and domestic nutrition assistance programs. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation and poultry processor headquartered in Gainesville, Georgia, competing exclusively in open-market procurements without set-aside designation across its entire 65-award portfolio.

Gold Creek Foods delivers chilled chicken in bulk quantities to support the USDA's National School Lunch Program and related food assistance initiatives under firm fixed-price contracts. Representative awards include a $14.1 million definitive contract from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (awarded December 11, 2025, completion February 28, 2026) for large chilled bulk chicken delivery to multiple U.S. locations; a $5.34 million award from USDA Food and Nutrition Service (January 13, 2026, completion March 31, 2026) for 16.524 million pounds of chicken products; and a $4.1 million award (March 25, 2026, completion May 31, 2026) also from FNS for large chilled bulk chicken. All contracts require U.S.-origin products compliant with Agricultural Acquisition Regulation standards, food defense protocols, and GS1 Global Data Synchronization Network reporting. Deliveries are made on a free-on-board destination basis to distribution centers across multiple states including Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, South Carolina, and Texas.

Customer concentration is absolute. Gold Creek Foods serves only two funding agencies within USDA: the Food and Nutrition Service (42 awards, $117.9 million combined potential value) and the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office (23 awards, $47.5 million combined potential value), accounting for 100% of recent awards and combined potential value of $165.5 million. The two rankings are identical — FNS dominates both volume and dollars — with all work flowing through a single contracting pathway: competitive Invitations for Bid issued by USDA AMS under the Commodity Procurement Program.

Activity has averaged nine to eleven awards per year over the past three years, with eight awards in 2024 and nine in 2025. The vendor reports over 60 prime contracts totaling more than $171 million cumulatively with USDA agencies since 2018, reflecting sustained, repetitive procurement of commodity poultry products. Individual contract values range from approximately $517,000 to $14.1 million, with most awards clustering in the $1 million to $6 million range. All 65 awards carry 100% obligation of potential value, indicating completed or fully funded performance. Gold Creek Foods maintains operations at facilities in Gainesville, Georgia and Dawsonville, Georgia as its place of performance, and operates as a sole proprietor with no subcontract footprint — all 65 awards are prime work with no sub-awards identified in the source.

The vendor's competitive posture is narrow and specialized. Every award is full-and-open, unset-aside procurement under NAICS 311421 (Poultry Processing) and PSC 1051 (Meat, Poultry, and Fish), indicating Gold Creek Foods competes on production capacity and pricing in open-market commodity procurement rather than on preferential set-aside vehicles. The vendor's selection across 65 consecutive awards without set-aside designation reflects material production scale — contracts routinely specify delivery of 13 million to 26 million pounds of chicken products per procurement — and demonstrates successful competition in the open federal poultry commodities market against large-scale food suppliers.