Shamrock Foods Company

Shamrock Foods Company, doing business as Shamrock Foods Co, is a Phoenix, Arizona–based food manufacturer and distributor that supplies fresh fluid milk, dairy products, baked goods, and prepared meals to the federal government as a prime contractor across full-and-open competition, with no set-aside designations across its portfolio. The company operates through a parent entity and subsidiary United Food Service, Inc., which manages multiple blanket purchase agreements and indefinite-delivery contracts with federal agencies.

Shamrock Foods' federal footprint is heavily concentrated in subsistence and food commodity supply to military, correctional, and Native American healthcare facilities. The company holds a dominant position in Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Subsistence work, with 7,882 delivery orders (97% of awards by count) across multiple indefinite-delivery contract vehicles—SPE30015DV190, SPE30018DV300, and SPE30021DV380—carrying a combined potential value of $14.6 million. These orders predominantly supply low-fat milk, heavy cream, ice cream cups, and dairy beverages to military commissaries and exchanges in the Phoenix region under a single-award IDIQ structure valued at $1.77 million over three years. Outside DLA Troop Support, Shamrock holds significant work with the Defense Commissary Agency (38 awards, $87.6 million) and the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (31 awards, $91.9 million), supplying fresh fluid milk and dairy products to support the USDA's domestic food assistance and commodity procurement programs. The Indian Health Service represents the third material customer (30 awards, $9.4 million), with multiple BPAs providing subsistence and non-subsistence food supplies to Gallup Indian Medical Center and Navajo Area facilities through September 2028.

Customer concentration is pronounced by potential value rather than award volume. The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service and Defense Commissary Agency together anchor $179.5 million (79% of combined potential value) across just 69 awards, while DLA Troop Support's 7,882 delivery orders carry only $14.6 million. Recent representative work includes a $541,519 definitive contract from USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (April 2026) for 2% reduced-fat milk, 64-ounce and 128-ounce containers; a $917,576 purchase order from Indian Health Service (September 2023) for commercial food products and industrial cleaning supplies to Gallup Indian Medical Center's Food Services Department through September 2026; and a $235,000 BPA call from Indian Health Service (March 2026) for subsistence food supplies to Gallup Indian Medical Center under the larger $1.41 million BPA framework (September 2025–September 2028). Across the DLA Troop Support IDIQ, individual delivery orders range from tens of dollars for single-item orders (low-fat milk, cottage cheese, sour cream) to five-figure orders for larger quantity requirements, with the portfolio characterized by high-frequency, small-dollar transactional activity.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years from 667 awards in 2022 to just five awards in 2026, reflecting either portfolio contraction or a shift in data availability; only two awards face recompete within the next twenty-four months with a combined potential value of $659 thousand. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open competition with no SBA set-asides, suggesting a mainstream commercial food supplier position rather than a small business or disadvantaged-business designation profile. Shamrock's award taxonomy is anchored in Fluid Milk Manufacturing (NAICS 311511, 3,060 awards) and Commercial Bakeries (NAICS 311811, 4,891 awards), with commodity-level PSC coding reflecting Dairy Foods and Eggs (5,327 awards) and Special Dietary Foods (2,760 awards). The company operates from Phoenix, Arizona, with place of performance specified as Phoenix for the vast majority of DLA and IHS work, positioning it as a regional supplier for Arizona-based and Southwest military installations and healthcare facilities, though commodity orders to USDA distribute nationally.