Jianas Brothers Packaging Company

Jianas Brothers Packaging Company, a Kansas City, Missouri–based small business manufacturer and Subchapter S Corporation, supplies instant beverage powders and dehydrated food components to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor exclusively under small business set-asides, with 100% of recent awards flowing to DLA customers. The company operates as a specialized manufacturer for military subsistence programs, serving exclusively as a prime — no subcontract activity appears in the source.

Jianas Brothers manufactures instant juice powders (orange and grape varieties in bulk and pouched form), non-dairy creamer powder, and related dehydrated beverage and food components for Meals Ready-to-Eat, Unitized Group Rations, and similar military ration systems. Recent delivery orders include a $3.978 million March 2026 order from DLA Troop Support Subsistence for instant grape juice powder (ultimate completion July 2026), a $291,600 March 2026 order for instant orange juice powder (completing June 2026), and a $1.129 million June 2024 order for instant grape juice pouches (completed September 2024). The company's production infrastructure supports approximately 25 million military rations annually and maintains minimum shelf-life compliance of 36 months at 80 degrees Fahrenheit under DLA specification PCR-J-002B.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-customer dominant. DLA Troop Support Subsistence accounts for 236 awards representing $1.26 billion of the $1.27 billion combined potential value — approximately 99% of the vendor's federal footprint. Secondary DLA entities (DLA general procurement and DLA Troop Support Medical) and Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development comprise the remaining 1%. The vendor currently holds four active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Troop Support Subsistence: a $39.791 million single-award IDC for dehydrated juice pouches awarded February 2026 (completing February 2029); a $3.137 million single-award IDC set-aside for total small business for instant fruit juice pouches awarded May 2022 (completing May 2027); a $102.863 million single-award IDC set-aside for total small business for non-dairy creamer powder awarded November 2021 (completing October 2026); and a completed small-business set-aside IDC for non-dairy creamer powder from September 2021. Recent delivery orders flow primarily through the $3.137 million instant juice pouch IDC (seven delivery orders from 2022 through March 2026) and the $102.863 million non-dairy creamer IDC (now expired). Activity has been episodic over the past five years — two awards in 2021, two in 2022, a gap through 2023, then four in 2024, one in 2025, and three in 2026 — with obligated dollars at $135.1 million representing 11% of combined potential value, indicating multi-year performance cycles typical of military subsistence production contracts. The vendor faces a recompete cliff on the $102.863 million non-dairy creamer IDC, which completes October 2026.