Packers Canning Co Inc.

Packers Canning Co Inc., doing business as Honee Bear Canning Co, manufactures shelf-stable canned vegetables and legumes exclusively for the Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor, competing predominantly full-and-open but with a recurrent pattern of partial small business set-aside designations across its portfolio. The company is a for-profit corporation based in Lawton, Michigan, classified under NAICS 311421 (Fruit and Vegetable Canning) and PSC 8915 (Fruits and Vegetables), with active federal registration since 2004.

Packers Canning supplies canned commodity foods—dried beans (light red kidney, black turtle, garbanzo, pinto, small red, pink, and black beans), canned carrots, white potato slices, asparagus, and vegetarian beans—in standardized case formats (24-count cases with 300-unit containers and 6-count cases with 10-unit containers) to support domestic nutrition assistance programs including the National School Lunch Program and The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Representative awards include a $4.55 million definitive contract from USDA Agricultural Marketing Service for canned pinto beans (February 2024), a $3.7 million definitive contract from USDA Food and Nutrition Service for canned dried beans in multiple varieties (February 2023), a $2.47 million definitive contract from USDA Agricultural Marketing Service for canned asparagus (May 2025), and a $3.5 million definitive contract from USDA Agricultural Marketing Service for nine varieties of canned beans (August 2025).

Customer concentration is heavily USDA-centric. The top five funding offices account for 90% of awards, led by USDA Food and Nutrition Service (181 awards, $123.1 million combined potential value), followed by USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office (38 awards, $64.5 million), USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crops Program (35 awards, $24.9 million), USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (63 awards, $6.3 million), and USDA Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office (4 awards, $2.9 million). The dollar concentration tracks tightly with volume; USDA accounts for 95% of combined potential value across the portfolio.

Packers Canning holds ten named indefinite delivery contracts with USDA, all multiple-award vehicles with ceiling values ranging from $102 thousand to $7.11 million. The largest active IDCs are a $7.11 million USDA Food and Nutrition Service multiple-award IDIQ for canned vegetables (carrots and white potato slices) awarded April 2026 with a partial small business set-aside running through September 2027, a $4.52 million USDA Food and Nutrition Service multiple-award IDC for canned carrots and white potato slices with a partial small business set-aside running through September 2026, and a $2.61 million USDA Food and Nutrition Service multiple-award IDC for canned white sliced potatoes with a partial small business set-aside running through September 2024. Task order activity against these vehicles averages six to eight orders per vehicle, with individual orders typically valued between $150 thousand and $1.66 million.

Activity has remained stable, averaging roughly 17 awards annually over the past five years (sixteen in 2022, twenty in 2023, eighteen in 2024, twenty-two in 2025, thirteen year-to-date in 2026). Five awards with combined potential value of $4.2 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (370 awards, 100% of portfolio) with no subcontractor role in federal awards; all work is performed at the Lawton, Michigan manufacturing facility with products distributed to locations across the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii on an FOB origin basis. All commodities procured must be products of the United States, grown, processed, and prepared exclusively within the country per Agricultural Acquisition Regulation requirements.

Canned fruits and vegetables available in any can size. Michigan based family owned and geographically situated for maximum market penetration. Past performance with federal government contracts. www.honeebear.com British Retail Consortium certified.