Schmidt Baking Co Inc.

Schmidt Baking Co Inc., a for-profit bakery manufacturer based in Nottingham, Maryland, supplies fresh bread and bakery products to federal agencies as a prime contractor competing full-and-open with no set-aside designation. The vendor operates primarily through delivery orders issued against indefinite-delivery contracts held with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence division, which represents its core federal business.

Schmidt Baking's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in subsistence supply. The vendor holds a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with DLA Troop Support Subsistence (SPE30024DW004) carrying a $3.43 million ceiling through April 2028, awarded April 8, 2026, which supplies dinner rolls, hamburger buns, hoagie and submarine rolls, whole wheat bread, Italian bread, bagels, and English muffins to military installations including Fort Detrick, Fort Gregg Adams, and Fort Eustis. Task orders under this vehicle are firm fixed-price with delivery typically due within three to five days and range from $39 to $1,365 per order. Recent representative orders include a $1,752.74 delivery order for fresh kaiser rolls (July 2026), a $1,596.95 delivery order for dinner rolls (July 2026), and a $1,378 delivery order for hoagie and submarine rolls (June 2026). The vendor has also received awards from the Defense Commissary Agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of the Army.

Customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with DLA Troop Support Subsistence, which accounts for 20,150 of 20,521 total awards (98% of volume) but only $25 million of the $116.8 million combined potential value across all recent awards. By dollar magnitude, the Defense Commissary Agency dominates with $83.3 million in combined potential value across 38 awards, creating a meaningful divergence between volume and value—DLA places thousands of small transactional orders while DeCA concentrates larger dollar commitments. Veterans Affairs and Bureau of Prisons facilities round out the active customer set with recurring subsistence procurements.

Schmidt Baking's award portfolio is structured almost entirely around task orders under multiple DLA Subsistence IDVs. The top five parent vehicles are DLA indefinite-delivery contracts SPE30017DW539 (3,329 task orders, $368 thousand combined potential value), SPE30023DW003 (2,084 task orders, $392 thousand combined potential value), SPE30020DW631 (1,990 task orders, $298 thousand combined potential value), SPE30016DW502 (1,892 task orders, $307 thousand combined potential value), and SPE30022DW011 (1,867 task orders, $1.1 million combined potential value). These vehicles function as standing supply contracts issued repeatedly for routine bakery product procurement. Schmidt Baking operates as a prime on 100% of its recent awards; no subcontract activity is present in the source data.

Activity volume has declined from 2,199 awards in 2023 to 977 in 2026 year-to-date, indicating a contraction in task-order frequency. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $22.4 million, representing 19% of the combined potential value of $116.8 million, which reflects the typical pattern of subsistence supply contracts where ceiling values exceed near-term spending projections. NAICS classification concentrates in 20,290 awards under Commercial Bakeries, with minor exposure in General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (32 awards) and Food Service Contractors (9 awards). The PSC breakdown shows 18,740 awards under Bakery And Cereal Products and 1,749 awards under Special Dietary Foods And Food Specialty Preparations, confirming the vendor's focused operating model around fresh bakery manufacturing and supply to federal subsistence accounts.