Labatt Institutional Supply Co

Labatt Institutional Supply Co, doing business as Labatt Food Service, supplies frozen meats, poultry, seafood, dairy products, bakery goods, prepared meals, and specialty grocery items to the Defense Logistics Agency and other federal agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open Indefinite Delivery Contracts. The vendor is a large, privately-owned for-profit corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with three named subsidiaries: Direct Source Meats LLC, Labatt New Mexico LLC, and Labatt Food Service LLC.

Labatt's federal footprint is dominated by subsistence provisioning. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence Directorate accounts for 110,295 awards (96% of the award count) and $2.19 billion in combined potential value (75% of dollars), with most work flowing through single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts rather than competitive vehicles. The parent IDC held by Labatt, valued at $99.8 million and awarded May 18, 2025, runs through May 30, 2026, and authorizes provision of subsistence items from the federal 8900 catalog or commercial equivalents to military and federal agency customers primarily in the Central Texas region, with stated capacity for domestic and international distribution. DLA placed 20,878 delivery orders against contract SPE30019D3206 alone ($203.6 million combined potential value), demonstrating the scale of Labatt's reliance on high-frequency, low-dollar transactional work. Representative awards include a $6,129.54 delivery order for beef sirloin strips (April 15, 2026), a $85,892.57 order for beef ribeye roll steak (April 15, 2026), and a $71,637.88 order for frozen chicken breast fillets with juices (April 13, 2026). Subsidiary Direct Source Meats LLC appears in the corporate structure as a goods manufacturer, signaling potential vertical integration in meat sourcing, though the source does not detail its role in Labatt's federal supply chain.

Customer concentration is extreme. The DLA Troop Support Subsistence Directorate alone represents virtually all recent award activity; the Department of the Army, the New Mexico Army National Guard, and the Texas Army National Guard account for a combined 187 awards and $3.2 million, representing residual volume. The award portfolio spans 115,639 delivery orders since at least 1992, with 2025 showing 9,221 awards year-to-date — a steep trajectory reflecting the high-frequency nature of military subsistence provisioning. Award velocity dropped to 2,812 in the first quarter of 2026, likely reflecting the quarterly or monthly ordering cadence typical of DLA food service contracts rather than a loss of volume. The combined potential value of $2.93 billion across all awards carries obligated dollars of $1.31 billion (45% realization), consistent with federal subsistence procurement patterns where ceiling values reflect annual maximums and actual obligation tracks quarterly demand signals. Labatt competes exclusively full-and-open; the source contains no set-aside designations across the award population.

Labatt's award taxonomy reveals category concentration in food manufacturing and wholesale supply. The top NAICS categories are All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (52,831 awards) and Commercial Bakeries (41,569 awards), with General Line Grocery and Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers (2,500 and 14,252 awards respectively) rounding out the portfolio. The PSC coding confirms the same pattern: Meat, Poultry, And Fish accounts for 43,465 awards; Special Dietary Foods And Food Specialty Preparations for 25,586; and Dairy Foods And Eggs for 24,406. This PSC and NAICS alignment indicates that Labatt's transactional volume with DLA is driven by the breadth of the federal 8900 subsistence catalog rather than depth in any single product category. Labatt serves as a full-line institutional food distributor to the military, not a specialized contractor.