Schmidt Baking Co Inc.

Schmidt Baking Co Inc., based in Nottingham, Maryland, manufactures and delivers fresh bread and bakery products to federal military installations and government facilities as a prime contractor on numerous small delivery orders and indefinite delivery vehicles, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations. The company is a for-profit manufacturer operating across a portfolio of 20,055 prime awards spanning the past forty-six years, with all work performed at its Nottingham facility or to specified delivery locations in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The vendor's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in subsistence supply. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence division dominates Schmidt Baking's customer base, accounting for 19,684 awards (99% coverage) with a combined potential value of $24.8 million. A secondary but far more valuable customer is the Defense Commissary Agency, which placed 38 orders worth $83.3 million in combined potential value. The Department of Veterans Affairs (28 awards, $3.9 million), the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons at multiple facilities (45 awards for Federal Correctional Institution Cumberland and 24 awards for United States Penitentiary Hazleton), and the Department of the Army (101 awards) round out the active customer set. The concentration pattern is inverted: DLA Troop Support drives order volume while Defense Commissary anchors the dollar value. Recent award activity has declined from a 2023 peak of 2,199 awards to 511 awards in 2026 year-to-date.

Schmidt Baking operates under a single-award indefinite delivery contract (SPE30024DW004) with DLA Troop Support Subsistence carrying a $3.43 million ceiling running through April 2028, which supplies fresh bread and bakery products to military installations including Fort Detrick, Fort Gregg Adams, and Fort Eustis. Individual task orders under this IDV range from $39 to $1,365 and cover dinner rolls, hoagie and submarine rolls, hamburger buns, whole wheat bread, Italian bread, bagels, and English muffins, with firm fixed-price delivery typically due within three to five days. A second IDV (SPE30023DW003) generated 2,084 task orders worth $392 thousand, and SPE30020DW631 produced 1,990 task orders worth $298 thousand, alongside similar regional DLA subsistence vehicles. The vendor also holds at least five additional indefinite delivery positions under DLA Troop Support, each generating hundreds to thousands of small delivery orders. A newly awarded vehicle (SPE30024DW004, dated April 8, 2026, with a $106.6 thousand ceiling running through April 2029) covers the same product and service scope across Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. facilities.

The company's NAICS profile is 99% Commercial Bakeries (19,824 awards) with minor exposure in General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (32 awards) and Food Service Contractors (9 awards). PSC coding reflects Bakery and Cereal Products (18,274 awards) as the dominant classification, with Special Dietary Foods and Food Specialty Preparations accounting for 1,749 awards. Recent obligated funding is $22.2 million across the combined potential value of $116.6 million, indicating a 19% obligation rate typical of delivery-order vehicles where ceiling values exceed actual spend. Recompete risk is minimal: only one award with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carries $31 thousand in potential value. Schmidt Baking competes exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data.