Senn Bros., Inc.

Senn Bros., Inc., a West Columbia, South Carolina–based for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, supplies fresh produce and perishable food items to the Defense Logistics Agency Subsistence and other federal customers as a prime contractor, competing predominantly on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations. The company has been a registered federal vendor since November 2001 and operates as a wholesale agricultural produce distributor specializing in fresh fruits and vegetables for military and government food service programs.

Customer concentration is extreme and represents a recompete cliff. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence accounts for 333,898 awards (99.86% of all awards) and $608.4 million in combined potential value (99.22% of the vendor's total portfolio). The remaining customer agencies—the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons facilities at Edgefield, Williamsburg, and Bennettsville, and the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crops Program—together represent only 0.14% of award count and 0.78% of dollars. This concentration signal is reinforced by the vendor's parent-vehicle footprint: five DLA-issued IDIQs (SPE30021DS365, SPE30016DS664, SPE30022DSA19, SPE30023DSA13, and SPE30023DSA14) carry the vast majority of task orders; the largest single vehicle, SPE30021DS365, covers 129,756 task orders with $80.6 million in combined potential value. The primary DLA vehicle cited in recent awards is a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $15 million, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside, with an ultimate completion date of October 17, 2025—placing the contract in active recompete window now.

Senn Bros.' capability portfolio is narrowly focused. Award descriptions and commodity codes show the vendor supplies fresh produce items including apples (fresh and chilled), oranges, pears, lettuce, broccoli florets, cauliflower, carrots, corn, salad mixes, and seasonal berries. Task orders are structured as firm fixed-price delivery orders ranging from under $150 to over $3,000 per order, with place of performance typically in Lowell or Cayce, Arkansas. The top NAICS category is Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (321,256 awards), followed distantly by Commercial Bakeries (8,619 awards) and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers (4,180 awards). The top PSC is Fruits and Vegetables (334,122 awards). Activity volume has been substantial but volatile: 31,661 awards in 2022, 89,163 in 2023, 50,326 in 2024, 36,550 in 2025, and only 294 in 2026 year-to-date—a sharp decline that may reflect timing of IDC issuance or year-end reporting patterns.

The vendor holds one federal grant sub-award: a February 2023 sub-grant from the South Carolina Department of Agriculture for purchasing food from socially disadvantaged farmers to distribute at no cost to underserved communities, indicating modest engagement in USDA grant ecosystems. Senn Bros. has no identified subcontractors in the source data and operates purely as a prime on all federal awards. The vendor's market position as a sole or heavily dominant supplier on the DLA Subsistence IDCs creates both opportunity and risk: while the vendor captures near-complete pipeline from DLA, the October 2025 recompete deadline poses significant recompete exposure across the $15 million parent vehicle and downstream task orders already issued against it.