Mullen Marketing LLC

Mullen Marketing LLC, operating its Mullen Marketing Division from Dickson, Tennessee, supplies frozen and fresh subsistence food products—primarily meats, poultry, dairy, and dry goods—to the Federal Bureau of Prisons system as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, having secured 717 federal purchase orders since 2008 with approximately $15.8 million in combined potential value.

Mullen Marketing is a sole proprietorship small business competing exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides across its entire federal portfolio. The vendor operates solely as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint and concentrates its capability entirely on quarterly food and subsistence procurement for federal correctional facilities. Recent representative awards include a $51,600 purchase order from Federal Detention Center Philadelphia (October 2026) for subsistence food including bread, milk, beans, rice, pasta, and produce for Q1 FY27; a $68,218 award from Federal Medical Center Rochester (September 2026) for ground beef, fish fillets, pork roasts, cheese, canned vegetables, and oils for Q1 FY27; and a $119,792.93 delivery to Federal Prison Camp Duluth (July 2026) for frozen and fresh meats, poultry, and religious dietary items for Q4 FY26. All contracts carry firm fixed-price structures and span domestic locations nationwide—place of performance is typically Dickson, Tennessee, though delivery points vary by facility.

Customer concentration anchors heavily with the Bureau of Prisons system across 85 distinct facilities. The top five individual facilities account for 29% of awards by count: Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix leads with 76 awards worth $1.9 million combined potential value, followed by Federal Prison Camp Duluth (36 awards, $465 thousand), Federal Correctional Institution Sandstone (35 awards, $373 thousand), Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood (31 awards, $781 thousand), and Federal Correctional Complex Butner (28 awards, $2 million). By dollar magnitude, Butner and Fort Dix dominate: together they anchor 37% of combined potential value across the entire portfolio. This concentration reflects Mullen Marketing's specialized role as a dedicated quarterly food supplier to Bureau of Prisons operations rather than a diversified vendor.

Activity has grown year over year across the last five years—28 awards in 2022 to 59 in 2025—with 34 awards recorded in 2026 through mid-October. The vendor faces minimal recompete exposure: only three awards (combined potential value $162 thousand) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating most of the active portfolio will cycle through renewal beyond 2026 and early 2027. The source data encompasses over 717 awards, suggesting Mullen Marketing operates under quarterly procurement cycles aligned with federal fiscal quarters across the majority of Bureau of Prisons facilities. Award values typically range from approximately $7,000 to $229,000 per quarterly purchase order, with meal-specific and product-specific line items reflecting the detailed subsistence requirements of correctional institutions. The vendor's entire NAICS concentration lies in food manufacturing and wholesale (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing at 302 awards, Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing at 115 awards, Meat Processed from Carcasses at 92 awards), and all PSC codes align with meat, poultry, fish, and food procurement categories.