S.e.w. Friel, LLC

S.e.w. Friel, LLC, a for-profit agricultural producer headquartered in Wye Mills, Maryland, supplies canned corn commodities to the federal government exclusively as a prime contractor, with 239 awards spanning more than four decades and a combined potential value of $119.8 million. The company competes on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis across all recent work — no set-asides are used in the current award footprint.

S.e.w. Friel's capability portfolio is narrowly specialized: the vendor produces cream-style and whole kernel corn in 24/300-ounce cans for domestic food assistance programs. Representative awards include a $1.24 million delivery order from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service issued June 11, 2026, for canned corn to support food assistance initiatives through September 30, 2026; a $2.69 million delivery order awarded September 4, 2025, covering the same commodity scope; a $6.43 million delivery order from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service awarded November 17, 2023, for whole kernel corn in support of government food donation programs; and a $3.43 million definitive contract from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service awarded August 27, 2024, for whole kernel gold corn in 12/15.25-ounce cans. All work is performed at the vendor's facility in Wye Mills, Maryland, with distribution through the National School Lunch Program and related domestic food assistance initiatives.

Customer concentration is extreme and heavily weighted to a single agency within USDA. The USDA Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 124 awards (52% of total) with a combined potential value of $79.2 million (66% of total dollars). The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and its Washington Office together represent 29 awards with $21.6 million combined potential value. The Defense Logistics Agency carries 33 awards but is listed without dollar magnitude in the source. The Department of Veterans Affairs and six other federal agencies round out the footprint, together covering 20% of awards but contributing negligibly to dollar value. The two customer rankings track almost perfectly — FNS dominates both volume and value, signaling no tension between order frequency and order size.

S.e.w. Friel holds ten active indefinite delivery contracts with USDA Food and Nutrition Service and Agricultural Marketing Service. The largest vehicles carry ceiling values of $16.2 million (awarded April 16, 2026, through September 30, 2027), $6.84 million (awarded January 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024), $5.35 million (awarded November 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025), $3.34 million (awarded January 1, 2023, through September 30, 2023), and $2.02 million (awarded January 1, 2024, through September 30, 2024). Task orders issued under these IDCs range from $56,500 to $2.69 million. The vendor holds no seats on government-wide acquisition contracts, GWACs, or agency-wide multiple-award vehicles outside the USDA commodity procurement apparatus.

Activity has grown modestly year over year — seven awards in 2022 to fifteen in 2024 — and has settled at twelve awards in 2025 and five in 2026 (year-to-date through mid-June). Only two awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure, with a combined potential value of $1.3 million — a low recompete-cliff burden relative to the total portfolio. The vendor also receives grant funding from the USDA Rural Business Cooperative Services through its Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to support renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements at its Maryland production facilities.

S.e.w. Friel has no subcontract footprint and no identified sub-recipients — the vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no teaming relationships. The company is registered in SAM.gov since September 2001 and has served USDA agencies for over two decades as a sole-source supplier of shelf-stable canned corn for federal food assistance, creating a moat around commodity-procurement opportunities and a low-turnover, stable customer base concentrated in a single civilian agency.