New England Food Brokerage Inc.

New England Food Brokerage Inc., doing business as New England Food, operates exclusively as a prime contractor supplying food and subsistence products to the federal correctional system, with all 3,323 awards from the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons since 2007 designated as small-business set-asides. The Stoughton, Massachusetts-based small business competes entirely under the Total Small Business set-aside category, with a specialized footprint across 97 distinct Bureau of Prisons facilities nationwide.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers narrowly on quarterly food procurement for federal correctional institutions. Representative work includes a $24,960 award to Federal Correctional Complex Butner for ground beef (September 2024), a $58,090 contract to United States Penitentiary Hazleton for 175,000 pounds of mixed meats including beef, chicken, turkey, and fish (October 2024), and a $62,244.96 delivery to Federal Correctional Complex Coleman for national menu items (March 2024). Product categories span fresh and frozen meats, dairy, produce, canned goods, dry goods, baked items, condiments, and specialty dietary products certified for kosher and halal requirements. Contracts are structured as firm-fixed-price purchase orders, typically quarterly, with values ranging from approximately $3,000 to $75,000 per award. The vendor maintains active System for Award Management registration and delivers from its Stoughton, Massachusetts location.

Customer concentration tracks heavily to the Bureau of Prisons' institutional network. The top five customer facilities by award count account for 9 percent of all awards: Federal Correctional Complex Butner leads with 66 awards ($3.5 million combined potential value), followed by Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood (61 awards, $2.2 million), United States Penitentiary Hazleton (57 awards, $1.1 million), Federal Medical Center Devens (54 awards, $897 thousand), and Federal Correctional Complex Coleman (52 awards, $3.9 million). The top five by potential value—Coleman, Butner, Allenwood, Fort Dix, and Petersburg—represent 18 percent of combined potential value across the portfolio. Award distribution reflects the vendor's reliance on the Bureau of Prisons as a single customer agency; no other federal agency appears in the award footprint.

Activity shows a sharp growth trajectory through 2023, peaking at 143 awards that year, followed by moderation to 103 in 2024, 65 in 2025, and 9 awards year-to-date in 2026. The vendor has secured $71.7 million in combined potential value, with $71.4 million already obligated, indicating rapid cash flow and near-complete performance of awarded work. Recent monthly activity (June 2026) includes a $14,506.40 purchase order from Federal Correctional Institution McDowell and an $18,178 award from Federal Correctional Institution McKean, consistent with the quarterly procurement cycle that defines Bureau of Prisons food service operations.

Primary NAICS concentration reflects food manufacturing and wholesale: All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (987 awards), General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (589 awards), Meat and Meat Product Merchant Wholesalers (393 awards), Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (361 awards), and Meat Processed from Carcasses (248 awards). PSC codes show food commodities as the dominant acquisition type, with Meat, Poultry, and Fish (1,844 awards) and Food, Oils and Fats (1,241 awards) accounting for the vast majority of procurements.

New England Food operates as a pure prime contractor with no identified subcontractors across its federal footprint. The vendor competes exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides, never in full-and-open or unrestricted competitions. This positioning reflects deep specialization in Bureau of Prisons supply chains and an intentional focus on the corrective institutions market rather than diversification into other federal customer bases or contract vehicle types. The vendor's concentration—single customer agency, single procurement category, single set-aside posture, and all purchase-order based awards—signals both established market position within a narrow niche and structural vulnerability to procurement policy shifts or Bureau of Prisons spending reductions.