Ray Alderman & Sons Inc.

Ray Alderman & Sons Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Union Grove, Wisconsin, supplies fresh milk and dairy products to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Commissary Agency as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides. The company manufactures and wholesales fluid milk and dairy products including whole milk, low-fat milk, chocolate milk, cottage cheese, and sour cream under NAICS 311511 (fluid milk manufacturing) and PSC 8910 (dairy foods and eggs).

Ray Alderman & Sons operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with extreme customer concentration. The Defense Commissary Agency dominates both award count and dollar value — 38 awards carrying $64.5 million in combined potential value (covering 96% of total dollars across the portfolio). The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 represents a distant second with 33 awards valued at $1.8 million combined potential. The top two customers account for 85% of recent awards and 99% of combined potential value. Activity has remained flat over the past five years (two awards in 2022 and 2023, one in each of 2025 and 2026), with only one award reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete in that window.

Ray Alderman & Sons holds position on multiple indefinite-delivery contracts. The highest-value vehicle is IDC HDEC0106G6603 with 24 task orders carrying $53.9 million in combined potential value, placing the vendor as the prime supplier for commissary dairy requirements across a broad geographic footprint. A single-award VA contract (VISN 12), awarded April 1, 2024, carries a $407,751.25 ceiling with a one-year base and four one-year option periods running through March 31, 2027, and supplies six VA medical centers across Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio. Recent VISN 12 delivery orders include a $92,772.51 Total Small Business set-aside issued April 1, 2026 (completing March 31, 2027), a $90,684.17 Total Small Business order from April 1, 2025 (completing May 14, 2026), and a $100,712.25 order from April 1, 2024 (completed March 31, 2025). All orders are firm fixed-price with biannual economic price adjustments indexed to the Consumer Price Index. Ray Alderman & Sons performs all work at its Union Grove facility and delivers across the Great Lakes region and subordinate VA medical centers.