Quantum Foods Inc.

Quantum Foods Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Los Angeles, California, supplies subsistence food items—raw and frozen meats, dairy, produce, canned goods, kosher and halal certified meal components, and specialty items—to federal correctional facilities as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company is a Subchapter S Corporation competing exclusively under the total small business set-aside category across its 104 recent prime awards, with no subcontract work or involvement in larger contract vehicles.

Quantum Foods' customer base is heavily concentrated within the Bureau of Prisons. The top five facilities account for 72% of recent awards by count and 83% of combined potential value, led by the Federal Detention Center Honolulu (24 awards, $1.6 million), Federal Correctional Institution Terminal Island (16 awards, $1 million), Metropolitan Detention Center Los Angeles (13 awards, $615 thousand), Federal Correctional Institution Phoenix (8 awards, $383 thousand), and United States Penitentiary Atwater (14 awards, $346 thousand). Ten distinct Bureau of Prisons facilities place quarterly or semi-quarterly purchase orders, but the Honolulu and Terminal Island facilities dominate the portfolio, consistently anchoring the largest dollar values. Representative awards include a $100.007 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from Federal Correctional Complex Victorville on June 11, 2026 for fourth-quarter subsistence supplies (raw meats, dairy, kosher and halal certified items, frozen prepared foods), a $184.551 thousand award from Federal Detention Center Honolulu on January 19, 2026 for assorted subsistence items, and a $86.134 thousand order from Federal Detention Center Honolulu on June 9, 2026 for quarterly subsistence covering beans, canned vegetables, frozen meats, poultry, seafood, and cheese. All awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders with delivery requirements and strict temperature, packaging, and compliance specifications tied to Bureau of Prisons National Menu Specifications and religious dietary accommodations.

Activity has declined significantly. Awards per year peaked at 21 in 2023, contracted to 7 in 2024, fell to 6 in 2025, and dropped to 4 through mid-June 2026. The combined potential value across all 104 recent awards is $4.8 million, with $4.7 million obligated (97% of potential value), reflecting the firm fixed-price, small-dollar purchase order profile. By NAICS, 82 awards fall under All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311999), with 16 under Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing and smaller volumes across grocery wholesaling and animal slaughtering. By PSC, 74 awards are coded to Food, Oils and Fats, 18 to Meat, Poultry and Fish, and 7 to Dairy Foods and Eggs. Quantum Foods does not hold positions on government-wide vehicles, BPAs, or agency-wide IDIQs; it competes on individual simplified-acquisition solicitations from facility contracting offices, with awards typically ranging from $10 thousand to $200 thousand per order. No recompete cliff or vehicle-related pipeline is present in the source; the vendor's posture is purely transactional, facility-by-facility purchasing under total small business set-asides with no prime prime-contractor or subcontract relationships.