National Fruit Product Co Inc.

National Fruit Product Co Inc., a small business based in Winchester, Virginia, manufactures and delivers canned applesauce and other processed fruit commodities to the U.S. Department of Agriculture under partial small business set-asides as a prime contractor. The vendor operates exclusively in the commodity food-production space, with all 193 recent awards routed through USDA domestic food assistance programs and 100% positioned as prime contracts; it holds no subcontractor footprint and sits on no GWACs, IDIQs, or parent vehicles of consequence.

National Fruit Product is a for-profit corporate entity with federal vendor registration active since November 2003. It manufactures all products at its Winchester facility and delivers on FOB destination terms to support the National School Lunch Program, commodity food assistance initiatives, and other USDA domestic nutrition programs. The vendor's concrete capability is straightforward: production and supply-chain delivery of shelf-stable canned applesauce (4.5-ounce cups, 6/10-pound unsweetened cans, 4-ounce sleeves) and ancillary fruit products, all U.S.-grown and processed.

Customer concentration is absolute — 90% of awards fund USDA programs distributed across four USDA line offices. The Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crops Program anchors the largest-dollar segment: 23 awards totaling $33.1 million in combined potential value. The AMS Washington Office follows with 22 awards ($19.5 million), and the Food and Nutrition Service contributes 31 awards ($12.8 million). The Agricultural Marketing Service general line carries an additional 95 awards ($3.5 million combined potential value), reflecting the vendor's deep reliance on USDA commodity procurement cycles. Recent representative contracts include a $1.432 million firm fixed-price applesauce delivery order awarded December 12, 2024, by AMS Washington Office (completion March 31, 2025), a $1.36 million order from AMS Washington Office on July 31, 2025, covering applesauce cups and cans (completion December 15, 2025), and a $432,811 order from AMS on December 9, 2025, for assorted applesauce product forms (completion March 31, 2026).

Activity volume has been modest but consistent: three awards in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024, six in 2025, and one in 2026. The vendor's combined potential value across the portfolio stands at $80.5 million, though $130.8 million in actual obligations to date reflects contract over-performance or multiple-tranched delivery against standing capacity. The vendor also received a federal grant from USDA Agricultural Marketing Service dated January 3, 2022, for COVID-19 relief costs to food processors (completion January 2, 2023), supporting workplace safety and facility retrofitting.

National Fruit Product's federal footprint is horizontally narrow and vertically deep: it competes exclusively under partial small business set-asides in commodity food procurement, with no exposure to broader IT, logistics, or professional-services federal markets, no presence on government-wide vehicles, and no subcontracting relationships across the source data.