North Star Imports, LLC

North Star Imports, LLC, doing business as Importing, is a Minnesota-based sole proprietorship that supplies frozen and fresh meat products, dairy, bakery items, and comprehensive subsistence commodities exclusively to the Federal Bureau of Prisons across 98 correctional facilities nationwide, operating as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides without subcontractors.

The vendor is a small business located in Eagan, Minnesota, registered in the System for Award Management since June 2012. All work is performed as firm fixed-price purchase orders under total small business set-aside designation, with place of performance in St. Paul, Minnesota. North Star Imports competes exclusively under total small business set-asides; the vendor holds no full-and-open prime awards in the source data.

North Star Imports' capability portfolio centers on institutional food service procurement for federal correctional populations. The vendor supplies meat products (ground beef, beef patties, roast beef, chicken leg quarters, boneless chicken, turkey roasts, fish fillets, sausage, pork), frozen prepared meals, dairy items (milk, cheese, eggs), bakery products (bread, rolls), dry goods (beans, rice, pasta, flour), canned vegetables and fruits, condiments, spices, and specialized religious dietary items certified kosher and halal. Representative awards include a $114,040 Bureau of Prisons purchase order (October 2026) for first-quarter 2027 food service subsistence across 106 line items including kosher and halal certified meals to United States Penitentiary Canaan; a $172,750 award (July 2026) for meat products to Federal Correctional Complex Butner covering 231,500 pounds of beef patties, ground beef, chicken leg quarters, boneless chicken, tilapia, sausage, pork shoulder, and turkey roasts; and a $162,622.50 award (October 2025) for comprehensive subsistence and specialized dietary meals to Federal Correctional Complex Yazoo City. All awards are denominated in thousands of dollars, ranging from approximately $7,000 to $191,237.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The vendor serves 98 distinct facility components within the Federal Bureau of Prisons, all within the Department of Justice. The top five facilities account for only 9% of recent awards by count, indicating distribution across the Bureau's nationwide network. By potential value, the top five facilities account for roughly 20% of combined potential value: Federal Correctional Complex Coleman (48 awards, $5.6 million), Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont (59 awards, $3.2 million), Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood (37 awards, $2.7 million), Federal Correctional Complex Yazoo City (36 awards, $2.6 million), and Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City (35 awards, $2.4 million). The Bureau of Prisons represents 100% of the vendor's federal award footprint; no other civilian or defense agencies appear in the source data.

North Star Imports operates under a quarterly subsistence ordering cycle issued by individual facility food service operations. The vendor holds no standing IDIQs, GWACs, BPAs, or other parent vehicles; all awards are direct purchase orders from individual Bureau of Prisons components. Task orders are not applicable to this vendor's model.

Activity shows strong consistency across recent years. Awards per year over the past five years: 2022: 155 | 2023: 183 | 2024: 116 | 2025: 192 | 2026: 161. Total awards in the source footprint: 2,513 prime purchase orders since June 2012. Combined potential value across all awards is $84.9 million; combined dollars obligated is $82.5 million (97% execution). The recompete cliff shows 29 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months, representing $2 million in combined potential value—a relatively low recompete exposure given the vendor's large base and the quarterly nature of reprocurement across the Bureau of Prisons network.

North Star Imports has no documented subcontractor footprint. All 2,513 awards are prime contracts executed directly by the vendor.

The vendor specializes exclusively in federal correctional facility food supply under total small business set-asides. Award NAICS codes concentrate in food manufacturing: All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (1,159 awards), Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (430 awards), Meat Processed from Carcasses (365 awards), Poultry Processing (174 awards), and Animal Slaughtering (166 awards). PSC codes are Food, Poultry, and Fish (1,579 awards) and Food, Oils, and Fats (862 awards). The vendor competes on price and past performance under simplified acquisition procedures (FAR Part 13) and holds no commercial customers outside the federal corrections system.