Hamel's Catering, Inc.

Hamel's Catering, Inc., doing business as Hamels Creative Catering, is a woman-owned small business based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, that provides catered meals and food service support to the Massachusetts Army National Guard, Air National Guard, and Department of Defense units as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime across 90 federal awards spanning the past five years and competes consistently under small business set-asides, with meal provisioning for Inactive Duty Training (IDT), Annual Training (AT), drill weekends, and unit readiness events forming the core of its federal work.

Hamel's Catering's customer base concentrates entirely within the Massachusetts National Guard ecosystem. The Department of the Army Massachusetts Army National Guard accounts for 62 awards valued at $7.2 million combined potential value (92% of the vendor's total portfolio); the Air National Guard holds 15 awards worth $461 thousand; and the Department of the Army separately awards 13 orders totaling $76 thousand. The two top-customer rankings track identically — no divergence between volume and dollar concentration — underscoring heavy reliance on Massachusetts-based Army National Guard training meal procurement. Across all 90 recent awards, the vendor has drawn down $748 thousand against a combined potential value of $7.8 million, indicating 10% obligation and a substantial pipeline of unfilled BPA calls.

The vendor holds three active blanket purchase agreements anchoring task-order activity. The largest is Blanket Purchase Agreement W912SV24AA006 with the Massachusetts Army National Guard, awarded September 1, 2024, with a $3 million ceiling running through August 31, 2029 and generating 19 task orders of $103 thousand combined potential value to date. A predecessor BPA (W912SV22A0002, ceiling $1.495 million, expiring January 31, 2025) has produced 28 task orders worth $107 thousand. BPA W912SV20A0006, also with the Massachusetts Army National Guard, carries 21 task orders valued at $322 thousand. The Air National Guard BPA W50S8121A0003 (ceiling $150 thousand) accounts for 6 task orders and $63 thousand. Recent representative work includes a $11,598.30 call in June 2026 for catered drill-weekend meals set aside for total small business with the Department of the Army, a $186,600 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded February 1, 2025 by the Air National Guard to provide prepared meals for the 104th Fighter Wing at Barnes Air National Guard Base through January 31, 2030, and multiple monthly meal calls in the $2,000–$13,000 range for IDT and AT events throughout 2024 and 2025.

Activity has trended downward over the past five years — 14 awards in 2022, declining to 7 in 2026 — though the $3 million BPA renewal in September 2024 provides significant runway for future task-order volume. Only one award is scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $3 thousand), placing no near-term recompete pressure on the core customer relationships. The vendor's work is classified across the NAICS category "All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing" (71 awards) and "Caterers" (14 awards), with PSC Special Dietary Foods and Food Specialty Preparations dominating (72 awards). Performance occurs entirely in Holyoke, Massachusetts, with task-order delivery to National Guard facilities throughout Massachusetts, including Hanscom Air Force Base and Barnes Air National Guard Base.