Loffredo Gardens, Inc.

Loffredo Gardens, Inc., operating through its Loffredo Fresh Foods Division and doing business as Loffredo Fresh Produce Co., supplies fresh produce and food products to the federal government as a prime contractor, with 100% of its 111,618 recent awards priced on firm fixed-price delivery orders and contracts. The Des Moines, Iowa–based company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and a manufacturer of goods that has concentrated its federal footprint almost entirely on subsistence procurement for military and corrections food service operations.

Loffredo's customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence division accounts for 111,371 awards (99.8% of total) valued at $568.6 million combined potential value across five parent indefinite delivery contracts. The remaining 247 awards split between the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons (20 awards, $1 million combined potential value) serving the U.S. Penitentiary Thomson and the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service (7 awards, $26 million combined potential value). This concentration in DLA Subsistence represents a single-customer dependency that dominates both award volume and dollar exposure.

The top parent vehicles are five DLA Subsistence indefinite delivery contracts: SPE30018DS722 (45,567 task orders, $26.6 million combined potential value), SPE30023DS760 (43,668 task orders, $24.2 million combined potential value), SPE30023DSA06 (7,105 task orders, $4.2 million combined potential value), SPE30022DSA18 (4,477 task orders, $2.2 million combined potential value), and SPE30018DSA22 (3,432 task orders, $1.5 million combined potential value). Representative work includes a $202,382.90 purchase order from U.S. Penitentiary Thomson for weekly fresh produce through the fourth quarter of 2026, and a $4.9 million single-award indefinite delivery contract from DLA Subsistence effective September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2030, authorizing delivery of beverages and subsistence food products for defense nutrition requirements. Individual delivery orders under DLA contracts range from under $200 to several thousand dollars per order for produce items including apples, oranges, strawberries, lettuce, carrots, eggs, and other fresh or chilled produce.

NAICS concentration mirrors the product footprint: Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (99,718 awards), Commercial Bakeries (10,884 awards), and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers (786 awards) comprise the bulk of categorization. PSC-level data shows Fruits and Vegetables accounting for 111,529 of 111,618 awards, with bakery and cereal products, dairy foods and eggs, and specialty dietary foods rounding out the remaining 89 awards.

Activity peaked at 17,838 awards in 2022 and has trended downward to 8,785 awards through mid-2026 (2022: 17,838 | 2023: 15,735 | 2024: 15,830 | 2025: 14,569 | 2026: 8,785 year-to-date). Combined potential value across all awards totals $604 million, with $93.7 million obligated (16% of ceiling). Only one award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, valued at $202 thousand, limiting recompete exposure in that window but reflecting the vendor's heavy reliance on long-term IDC vehicles that will face recompete beyond the immediate horizon.

Loffredo operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. The company does not sit on government-wide acquisition contracts or GSA Schedules; its entire federal business flows through DLA Subsistence indefinite delivery contracts and spot purchases from DOJ and USDA. Performance occurs in Des Moines, Iowa across all awards.