Comer Lphelps

Comer Lphelps Phelps Farms Division, doing business as Phelps Farms, is a small business sole proprietorship based in Troy, Alabama that provides agricultural commodity sample hauling and transportation logistics to the Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under total small business set-asides. The vendor holds a $7.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service running through June 30, 2029, and operates across NAICS 484220 (Specialized Freight except Used Goods Trucking, Local) with all recent work classified under PSC code for motor freight transportation.

Customer concentration is extreme and stable. The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program accounts for 126 awards (64% of recent awards) with $29.5 million in combined potential value, supplemented by the Agricultural Marketing Service (8 awards, $345 thousand) and APHIS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services (3 awards, $581 thousand) for a combined 94% of total potential value across three distinct customer entities within USDA. The vendor has no subcontract activity and does not sub to other primes.

Phelps Farms' delivery order work under the Cotton and Tobacco Program IDC includes nine recent orders awarded in September 2026 for hauling cotton samples from gins to regional classing offices—Memphis Compress ($64,125), Memphis ($35,625), Corpus Christi County ($74,755.50), Rayville ($27,690), Memphis ($35,269.20), Memphis Compress ($39,808.80), Memphis ($59,975.10), and Memphis Cotton Company ($43,650)—all under total small business set-asides and running through June 30, 2027. Prior cycle work (September 2025 through June 2026) included multiple route-specific delivery orders valued individually from $50,918 to $144,101, covering sample hauling routes 1 through 5 across Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas. The vendor also holds definitive total-small-business-set-aside contracts for bundled Corpus Christi routes ($2.1 million), Macon Route 4 Georgia ($1.4 million), Dumas Arkansas routes ($459,212), and Abilene Kansas ($1.04 million), most of which have been terminated for convenience of government or have expired through 2024.

Activity is consistent but modest. The vendor recorded four awards in 2022, three in 2023, ten in 2024, nine in 2025, and nine in 2026 year-to-date—a trajectory from low baseline to single-digit annual volume. Nine awards valued at $469 thousand combined face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure. All work is performed in Troy, Alabama, with samples transported regionally within the southern United States to USDA classing offices in Memphis, Corpus Christi, Rayville, Macon, and other designated commodity inspection points. The vendor has maintained SAM registration since 2004 and is registered as a for-profit small business sole proprietorship. Total awards across prime activity span $32.2 million in potential value with $11.1 million (35%) obligated to date.