National Food Group Inc.

National Food Group Inc., doing business as Athlete's Needs, is a small business food distributor providing wholesale subsistence goods, prepared meals, and specialized dietary items to federal correctional facilities as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor operates as a Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Novi, Michigan, and carries NAICS codes centered on food manufacturing (primarily 311999—All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing) with PSC coding across food categories including general groceries, meats, and prepared items. All federal work is structured as prime purchase orders; National Food Group has not appeared as a subcontractor in the available award record.

The vendor's customer base is highly concentrated within the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons system. The top five customer locations—Federal Correctional Complex Victorville, Federal Detention Center SeaTac, Federal Correctional Institution Mendota, Federal Correctional Institution Herlong, and Federal Correctional Complex Lompoc—account for 24 percent of total awards by count. Victorville alone represents 103 awards valued at $2.7 million. When ranked by potential dollar value, the same concentration holds: Victorville, Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont, Federal Correctional Complex Lompoc, United States Penitentiary Atwater, and Federal Correctional Complex Florence together comprise 32 percent of combined potential value across the portfolio. Nearly all awards are Total Small Business set-asides, with the vendor competing exclusively within federal correctional procurement rather than in full-and-open competitive space.

Recent activity shows consistent quarterly awards across the correctional system. Over the past five years, the vendor received 61 awards in 2022, 122 in 2023, 165 in 2024, 163 in 2025, and 73 through mid-2026, indicating sustained high volume with slight peak-and-stabilization trajectory. The combined potential value across 1,115 total awards stands at $19.2 million, with $18.8 million obligated (98 percent execution rate). Eleven awards carrying $330 thousand in combined potential value have ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to recompete risk concentrated in the latter half of 2026 and early 2027.

The vendor's concrete capability portfolio centers on quarterly subsistence procurement for federal correctional institutions. Representative work includes a $105.2 million purchase order from Federal Correctional Complex Victorville (June 2026) covering 95 line items of raw meats, dairy, kosher and halal certified meal components, frozen prepared foods, and miscellaneous food service supplies, all delivered against Bureau of Prisons National Menu Specifications with strict palletization and temperature-control requirements. Other examples include a $194.8 million award from Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont (August 2025) for certified kosher and halal items spanning 38 line items with quantities ranging from 17 to 360,000 units, and a $119.1 million contract from Federal Correctional Complex Yazoo City (April 2025) for kosher subsistence covering approximately 78–80 food categories during Q3 FY26. Work is performed at the vendor's Novi, Michigan location with delivery on freight-on-board destination basis to each facility. The vendor specializes in accommodating religious dietary requirements—certified kosher and Halal options recur across nearly all awards—and meets specialized procurement timelines and packaging standards characteristic of institutional food service operations.

National Food Group does not hold parent contract vehicles, master agreements, or GWACs; it operates exclusively through individual purchase orders issued by each Bureau of Prisons facility. The vendor has no named subcontractor footprint and does not work as a sub to other federal primes in the available record. The company's federal presence dates to at least 2003 per System for Award Management registration documentation cited in award summaries, establishing two decades of continuous small business contracting experience with the correctional system.