H Schrier & Co Inc.

H Schrier & Co Inc., a Brooklyn-based small business Subchapter S corporation, supplies food and subsistence products to federal correctional facilities as a prime contractor under 100% small business set-asides across the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons network. The vendor operates exclusively in federal prison food service — a specialized, high-volume procurement niche where it has secured 2,775 purchase orders totaling $69.1 million in combined obligated value since at least 2001, with 100% of recent work as prime contractor.

The vendor's customer concentration is highly fragmented across the Bureau of Prisons' 94 distinct facilities. The top five customers by award count account for only 11% of all awards: Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont (69 awards, $2.1 million), Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix (60 awards, $2.2 million), Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood (59 awards, $3 million), Federal Correctional Complex Coleman (57 awards, $2.2 million), and Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn (56 awards, $2 million). No single facility drives more than 3% of total awards. This distribution reflects the Bureau's quarterly subsistence procurement model, where each facility independently solicits food contracts four times per year—a structural characteristic that produces hundreds of small individual purchase orders rather than larger consolidated vehicles.

Capability framing is narrow and literal. H Schrier delivers commercial food products—produce, dry goods, baked items, canned foods, meats, dairy, oils, condiments, and specialized dietary offerings (kosher, halal, and halal-certified meals)—under Bureau of Prisons National Menu Specifications. NAICS concentration is split between General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (846 awards) and All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (830 awards), with long-tail activity in Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (304 awards) and Food Service Contractors (302 awards). PSC codes cluster around Food, Oils and Fats (1,665 awards) and Fruits and Vegetables (349 awards). Work is performed in Brooklyn; delivery occurs to individual correctional facilities nationwide. Awards are consistently firm fixed-price, total small business set-asides, with 21-day delivery windows and strict temperature, palletization, and compliance requirements aligned to federal food regulations.

Recent activity has declined year over year: 141 awards in 2022, declining to 69 in 2023 and 2024, then 64 in 2025, and 41 in the first half of 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal — only 10 awards worth $378 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating most quarterly contracts roll forward or are recompeted on very short notice. The vendor's oldest known registration in System for Award Management dates to May 2001, signaling two-plus decades of continuous operation in this single market segment.

H Schrier operates as a pure-play procurement specialist dependent on the Bureau of Prisons' quarterly solicitation cadence. The business model — high-velocity, low-margin, commodity-like food fulfillment to a single federal customer across a distributed network — leaves minimal exposure to M&A integration risk but also narrow differentiation or growth optionality. No evidence of teaming, subcontracting, or diversification into other federal customers or product lines appears in the award record.