Matts Trading Inc.

Matts Trading Inc., a small disadvantaged business based in Palm City, Florida, supplies comprehensive food service products to federal correctional facilities as a prime contractor, operating exclusively under total small business set-asides across its entire federal footprint. The company specializes in meat, poultry, fish, dairy, frozen foods, vegetables, dry goods, and specialty meal options certified as kosher and halal to accommodate religious dietary requirements at Bureau of Prisons facilities nationwide.

Matts Trading competes almost exclusively through total small business set-aside purchase orders, with 100% of its 635 recent federal awards designated as set-asides. The company does not pursue full-and-open or unrestricted competition; its entire federal strategy anchors to small-business-reserved procurements. Award volume has grown substantially — 60 awards in 2022 to 162 in 2025 — though recent activity (73 awards through October 2026) reflects a normalization after the 2025 spike. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $14.4 million, with $13.9 million already obligated (97% of potential).

The vendor's customer concentration is highly specialized. The top five Bureau of Prisons facilities account for 18% of all awards and 28% of combined potential value: Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont leads with 29 awards and $1.7 million combined value; Federal Correctional Complex Yazoo City follows with 27 awards and $851 thousand; United States Penitentiary Hazleton holds 21 awards and $602 thousand; Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City contributes 10 awards and $479 thousand; and Federal Correctional Institution McDowell adds 12 awards and $462 thousand. All 93 distinct customer agencies served are Bureau of Prisons facilities or related DOJ detention centers. Work is performed from the vendor's Boca Raton, Florida distribution center, with FOB Destination delivery to individual facility food service warehouses under strict temperature controls and palletization requirements.

Award structure is uniformly quarterly firm fixed-price purchase orders with ultimate completion dates spanning three- to six-month performance windows. The company's NAICS footprint is concentrated in food manufacturing: All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (366 awards), Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (90 awards), Meat Processed from Carcasses (61 awards), Animal Slaughtering (30 awards), and Poultry Processing (25 awards). Product Service Code categories reflect the same specialization: Meat, Poultry, and Fish (350 awards) and Food, Oils and Fats (246 awards) dominate the portfolio.

Matts Trading operates as a prime contractor with no identified subcontractor relationships on any award in the source data; the vendor maintains direct responsibility for all sourcing, quality assurance, and delivery. The company has been registered in SAM.gov since September 2015 and has maintained uninterrupted award activity across the Bureau of Prisons network since that registration. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest — 16 awards with combined potential value of $814 thousand reaching ultimate completion, representing less than 6% of the current portfolio by dollar value.