L.a. Foods, LLC

L.a. Foods, LLC, doing business as La Foods, manufactures and supplies religiously certified meal products—primarily kosher and halal entrees, breakfast items, and subsistence components—to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor on firm-fixed-price purchase orders across the entire federal correctional system. The company is a small business operating from Agoura Hills, California, under NAICS 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing) and PSC 8945 (Food, Oils and Fats), competing predominantly under total small business set-asides, with nearly all 3,995 recent federal awards structured as 100% small business set-asides.

La Foods' federal customer base is narrowly concentrated within the Bureau of Prisons' regional correctional facilities. The top five customer facilities—Federal Correctional Complex Victorville (142 awards, $3.3 million), Federal Correctional Complex Coleman (109 awards, $4.1 million), Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont (109 awards, $3.2 million), Federal Correctional Complex Butner (91 awards, $2.5 million), and Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City (85 awards, $1.7 million)—account for 13% of award count and 23% of combined potential value. These awards cluster at roughly five to eight facilities representing 98 distinct customer agencies in the federal system; the concentration reflects routine quarterly subsistence procurements issued across the Bureau's national footprint rather than strategic customer concentration. La Foods has no parent contract vehicles, IDIQs, or GWACs; it competes on individual facility-level RFQs and pre-solicitation notices issued by discrete correctional complexes.

La Foods' capability portfolio is hyperspecialized and operationally narrow: the vendor manufactures and delivers certified kosher meals (meeting Orthodox Kashruth standards), halal-certified entrees (meeting Islamic dietary law), Passover-specific items (seasonal, February through April), and general population subsistence components—all meeting Bureau of Prisons National Menu Specifications and requiring strict temperature control, on-time delivery to warehouse loading docks during specified business-hours windows, and compliance with precise packaging and labeling standards. Representative awards include $114.4 million to Federal Correctional Complex Florence for kosher and halal hot entrees (beef, pasta, fish, chicken, turkey, omelets, bologna) under total small business set-aside; $111 million to United States Penitentiary Hazleton for certified kosher and halal items; $110.9 million to United States Penitentiary Hazleton for Q3 FY26 kosher; and $107.4 million to Federal Correctional Complex Florence for kosher and halal certified hot entrees. All awards are purchase orders with 21-to-180-day performance periods and ceiling values ranging from $1.5 thousand to $114.4 million. La Foods operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no identified subcontractors across the award footprint.

Activity has remained consistent at 78–215 awards per year across the five-year window, with recent decline from 215 (2022) to 78 (2026 year-to-date). Seven awards totaling $275 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure. La Foods' combined obligated dollars across all federal awards stands at $66.5 million (99% of $67 million combined potential value), indicating high execution velocity and near-complete funding draw-down across the active portfolio.

La Foods operates with no meaningful leverage outside the Bureau of Prisons ecosystem. It serves no defense, civilian agency, or non-correctional federal customer base; it holds no government-wide vehicles, schedules, or parent IDIQs; and it maintains no teaming relationships with larger contractors. The business model is a direct-prime, small-business monopoly on quarterly religious meal provisioning for a single federal agency operating across its 98 regional facilities. Award frequency, dollar magnitude, and customer concentration reflect the Bureau of Prisons' quarterly subsistence purchase cycle and the vendor's status as the sole qualified small business manufacturer of certified kosher and halal correctional meals meeting federal specification and religious certification standards.