Pueblo Trading Co Inc.

Pueblo Trading Co Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Los Angeles, California, supplies meat, frozen food, dairy, and comprehensive subsistence items to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor exclusively serving federal correctional facilities through thousands of quarterly purchase orders. The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, with occasional full-and-open and woman-owned small business set-aside awards across 100 distinct Bureau of Prisons facilities nationwide.

Pueblo Trading Co Inc. delivers food procurement and institutional food service supply to federal detention centers and correctional institutions. The company's portfolio centers on fresh and frozen meats (beef, chicken, pork, turkey, fish), dairy products (cheese, milk, butter, eggs), dry goods (beans, rice, pasta), canned vegetables and fruits, baked goods, condiments, and specialty items including kosher and halal certified meals. Representative work includes a $215.8 million purchase order from Federal Correctional Complex Victorville for FY26 second-quarter food items including individual portion-sized condiments, dairy, and kosher and halal meals; a $331.5 million award from Federal Correctional Complex Coleman for National Menu second-quarter FY26 comprehensive food products; and a $335.1 million first-quarter FY26 National Menu contract with the same facility. The company delivers quarterly subsistence contracts to over 100 Bureau of Prisons facilities ranging from approximately $5,000 to over $370,000 per award, with firm fixed-price terms and strict compliance to Bureau of Prisons National Menu Specifications and temperature-controlled delivery requirements.

Customer concentration is extreme and hyperlocalized. The top five customer facilities by award count—Federal Correctional Complex Victorville (76 awards, $3.6 million), Federal Correctional Complex Lompoc (49 awards, $3.1 million), Federal Correctional Institution Phoenix (40 awards, $1.2 million), Federal Correctional Institution Sheridan (40 awards, $1.9 million), and Federal Correctional Complex Tucson (37 awards, $886 thousand)—represent 13% of total awards. When measured by potential value, the same five facilities plus Federal Correctional Complex Coleman and Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City together account for 28% of combined potential value ($13.6 million of $48.7 million). All awards fund the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons across its civilian correctional facility network; the vendor has no reported Department of Defense, civilian agency, or mixed-agency footprint. This concentration reflects the company's business model of delivering standing quarterly food contracts across the Bureau of Prisons system rather than competing for larger, nonrecurring agency contracts.

The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor, with zero subcontract awards in the source data spanning more than two decades of System for Award Management registration. All 1,867 awards are purchase orders issued directly to Pueblo Trading Co Inc. The company does not appear on any government-wide IDIQs, GWACs, or multi-agency task order vehicles; instead, it competes through individual facility-level solicitations and reverse auctions (such as Unison Marketplace) managed by each Bureau of Prisons location.

Award activity has grown from 145 contracts in 2022 to a peak of 240 in 2024, settling to 234 in 2025 and 147 year-to-date in 2026. The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months stands at 28 awards with combined potential value of $1.5 million, representing routine quarterly refresh cycles rather than concentrated recompete exposure. Nearly all awards carry ultimate completion dates tied to quarterly fiscal-year endpoints (March 31, June 30, September 30, December 31), reflecting the Bureau's quarterly subsistence procurement cadence. The source indicates 96% dollar obligation against combined potential value ($47 million obligated of $48.7 million potential), suggesting strong invoice-to-award conversion and active delivery across the footprint.

The company's dominance in federal corrections food supply is reinforced by NAICS and PSC concentration: 787 of 1,867 awards (42%) fall under NAICS 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing), 228 under general-line grocery wholesale, and 171 under meat product wholesale. Correspondingly, 923 awards (49%) carry PSC 8140 (Meat, Poultry, And Fish) and 785 (42%) carry PSC 8145 (Food, Oils And Fats). This vertical focus—food-only, federal correctional only—distinguishes Pueblo Trading as a specialized institutional food service wholesaler rather than a diversified food distributor or full-service logistics provider.

Wholesale Food Distributor specializing in Meat, Poultry, Seafood, Prepared Meals, Canned and Frozen Fruits and Vegetables. Can ship nationwide and export.