Lakeside Foods Inc.

Lakeside Foods Inc., doing business as Lakeside Foods, manufactures canned and frozen vegetables and canned meat products for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal procurements, competing without set-asides across a $1.29 billion portfolio of 911 prime awards issued since 1982.

Lakeside Foods is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, with facilities across Wisconsin (Manitowoc, New Richmond, Belgium) and Minnesota (Owatonna, Plainview) plus Weston, Oregon. The company has operated manufacturing infrastructure across multiple states and operates under primary NAICS 311421 (Fruit and Vegetable Canning) and 311423 (Meat Canning), with PSC codes 8915 (Fruits and Vegetables) and 8930 (Meat, Poultry, and Fish). Lakeside Foods performs substantially all work as prime contractor with no identified subcontractors. The company registered in SAM in November 1998 and competes exclusively under full-and-open, unrestricted competitive procurement—never under small-business set-asides, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other preference categories.

Lakeside Foods' capability portfolio centers on commodity food supply: canned vegetables (green beans, carrots, corn in whole kernel and cream-style, peas, mixed vegetables, potatoes, beans including blackeye and pinto) and canned meats (beef, pork, beef stew, beef chili) in standard commercial configurations (24-count cases of 300-serving units, 6/10-ounce cans, 24-ounce meat cans) alongside frozen vegetables (corn, carrots, mixed vegetables, peas) in bulk cartons. Representative work includes a $48.1 million delivery order for canned beef (24-ounce format, 200,000 cases) from USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (August 2023, completion June 2024); a $5.18 million definitive contract for canned pork and beef from USDA Food and Nutrition Service (August 2026, completion December 2026); a $9.3 million definitive contract for canned pork and beef (December 2025, completion March 2026); and a $4.596 million definitive contract for canned beef (February 2026, completion September 2026). All awards are firm fixed-price, designated for U.S. government food donation programs (National School Lunch Program, Emergency Food Assistance Program, food bank distributions), and deliveries span the continental United States, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam.

Customer concentration is severe and narrow. USDA dominates: the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service anchors 490 awards (54% of all awards) valued at $774.7 million (60% of combined potential value); Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office accounts for 96 awards (11% of total) valued at $275.6 million (21% of potential value); Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crops Program holds 62 awards (7% of total) valued at $34.5 million; and Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office carries 12 awards valued at $109.7 million (8.5% of potential value). Seven distinct federal agencies are named, but USDA accounts for 94% of the 911 awards. Lakeside Foods has no work with DoD, DHS, GSA, VA, or civilian agencies outside USDA's food-assistance structure.

Lakeside Foods holds positions on multiple USDA indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs). The top five parent vehicles carry 137 task orders (15% of prime award volume) and $75.5 million in combined potential value: IDC 123J1424D0208 (46 task orders, $33.7 million), IDC 123J1425D0053 (37 task orders, $13.9 million), IDC 123J1425D0067 (23 task orders, $4.8 million), IDC 123J1423D0122 (20 task orders, $8.5 million), and IDC 123J1422D0039 (11 task orders, $14.1 million). Recent IDV awards include a $42.3 million multiple-award vehicle from Food and Nutrition Service (January 2025, completion September 2025); an $18.3 million vehicle (April 2026, completion September 2027); a $17.9 million vehicle (October 2025, completion September 2026); and a $5.7 million vehicle (October 2025, completion September 2026). All IDVs are full-and-open, non-set-aside, multiple-award vehicles through which FNS and AMS competitively issue firm fixed-price delivery orders for specific commodity volumes and completion schedules.

Activity has grown substantially. Lakeside Foods received 27 awards in 2022, 46 in 2023, 43 in 2024, 76 in 2025, and 33 through September 2026 (year-to-date partial). The recompete cliff is minimal: only 3 awards (combined potential value $5.5 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating stable incumbency across the vendor's active IDV portfolio through mid-2027.