Meers Enterprises Inc.

Meers Enterprises Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation based in Lubbock, Texas, operates its Meers Cotton Service Division under the trade name Modern Motors. The company specializes in agricultural transportation and logistics services, with particular expertise in cotton sample hauling throughout the Texas region. Meers Enterprises has established itself as a critical service provider to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, delivering specialized freight trucking services essential to federal cotton classing and quality assessment operations.

Throughout its federal contract history, Meers Enterprises has provided cotton sample hauling and transportation services to the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program exclusively. The company's work involves transporting grower cotton samples from gins and warehouses to USDA classing offices located in Lubbock and Lamesa, Texas. Past contract awards include definitive contracts for sample hauling services along bundled routes, with three significant contracts terminated for government convenience on January 29, 2025: a $3.57 million contract for Lubbock Bundled Routes 1 & 2 (awarded October 13, 2022), a $2.06 million contract for Lubbock Bundled Routes 3 & 4 (awarded October 13, 2022), and a $1.97 million contract for Lamesa Bundled Routes 1 & 2 (awarded October 6, 2022). Additionally, Meers Enterprises received multiple delivery orders exercising option years under these contracts, including $269,904 and $167,464.10 awards in October 2021, a $175,926.20 delivery order in October 2021, and $33,546.25 for container, storage, and delivery services in December 2021. Most recently, prior to contract terminations, the company received delivery orders valued at $164,950.50 (Lubbock Route 2) and $393,396.60 (Lubbock Routes 1) both awarded August 30, 2024. Most awards utilized small business set-asides under NAICS code 484220 for transportation of waste and scrap services, though some recent delivery orders carried no set-aside designation.

Meers Enterprises currently holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program valued at $4,000,000 with a completion date of June 30, 2029. This IDC, awarded August 26, 2024 as a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 484220, is designated for cotton sample hauling services along designated routes in Lubbock and Lamesa, Texas, with an estimated 198,000 miles of transportation per bundled route. The original solicitation encompassed a total estimated ceiling of $7.5 million across multiple routes. To date, the USDA has issued two delivery orders under this IDC: one for $111,325.50 for Lubbock Route 2 services and another for $200,196.60 for Lubbock Routes 1 services, both with performance periods through June 30, 2025. Most recently, in September 2025, two additional delivery orders were issued under this IDC for Option Year II: a $100,016.70 delivery order and a $196,700 delivery order, both scheduled for completion by June 30, 2026, continuing the company's established pattern of supporting the Cotton and Tobacco Program's cotton sample transportation operations between gins, warehouses, and federal classing facilities.