So-Pak-Co, Inc.

So-Pak-Co, Inc. Sopakco, Inc. Division, doing business as Sopakco Packaging, manufactures specialized military and emergency-response meal products and food packaging solutions, selling primarily as a prime contractor to the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence and the Federal Emergency Management Agency on delivery orders against indefinite delivery vehicle contracts.

Sopakco Packaging is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Mullins, South Carolina, and a subsidiary of Unaka Company, Incorporated. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurement across primary NAICS 311611 (Animal Slaughtering) and 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing), with product concentration in composite food packages and special dietary foods. The company holds no SBA set-aside certifications and does not pursue set-aside work; its awards split between competitive full-and-open procurements (roughly 94% of recent awards) and Total Small Business set-aside delivery orders (roughly 6%), with the latter likely flowing from parent-contract framework language rather than deliberate set-aside strategy. All recorded awards are prime contracts; the vendor has no documented subcontract footprint in the source data.

Sopakco's customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence (DLA TSS) accounts for 5,389 awards (94% of recent volume) worth $7.84 billion in combined potential value—98 percent of all dollars across the portfolio. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (21 awards, $360.9 million) and DLA Troop Support at the parent agency level (170 awards, $191.3 million) are distant secondaries. FEMA Incident Support Section adds 37 awards ($159.4 million). This concentration is both by volume and dollars; the two top-customers rankings align almost entirely.

Sopakco operates under five primary parent IDVs with DLA TSS. The single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE3S119DZ117 carries 1,570 task orders worth $13.6 million combined potential value. IDC SPE3S124DZ101 holds 972 task orders ($8.3 million). IDC SPE3S114DZ100 encompasses 781 task orders ($22.7 million). IDC SPE3S119DZ123 has 730 task orders ($4 million). IDC SPE3S114DZ105 spans 503 task orders ($4.8 million). Additionally, Sopakco holds a $13.077 million single-award IDC (SPE3S125DZ104, awarded November 14, 2024, running through November 11, 2029) for tailored operational meals. Delivery orders against these vehicles range from under $300 to $7.14 million, with typical performance cycles of five to fourteen days; nearly all carry firm fixed-price terms with no set-aside.

Recent capability work spans multiple meal-product categories. A $7.139 million delivery order from DLA TSS (March 13, 2026) supplied individual meals (MREs and portable rations) with completion by April 30, 2026. A $4.797 million DLA TSS order (March 6, 2026) delivered individual portable meals. A $828,450 delivery order from FEMA (May 1, 2026) replenished Special Dietary Ration (SDR) meals for disaster response, performed in Fort Worth, Texas. A $646,085 FEMA order (April 20, 2026) replenished inventory at FEMA distribution centers. Sopakco also supplies religious meals (Halal and Kosher certified), tailored operational meals, protein drinks, operational rations (individual and group), and specialized combat rations. Set-aside delivery orders typically cover religious meals and reading materials under Total Small Business set-aside, with individual order values ranging from $91 to $110,700.

Award activity has grown steadily: 503 awards in 2022 to 641 in 2025, with 240 awards already recorded in 2026 year-to-date (through May 1). The recompete cliff for the next twenty-four months shows only four awards reaching ultimate completion with combined potential value of $121.4 million—the vast majority of Sopakco's portfolio extends well beyond that window, providing substantial continuity risk mitigation. However, the DLA TSS IDVs themselves will require recompete in the future; the November 2024 award with a November 2029 completion date represents the most recent high-value vehicle establishment.

Sopakco is wholly contained within the DLA TSS supply chain and holds no recorded subcontractor relationships in the source data. All work is performed at the vendor's Mullins, South Carolina manufacturing facility, with the exception of FEMA work performed in Fort Worth, Texas. The vendor's portfolio shows no diversification into civilian agencies beyond FEMA's emergency-response mission, no expansion into defense prime work outside subsistence supply, and no documented teaming or sub-award activity. Dollar concentration, customer concentration, and product concentration converge on a single-vendor-single-customer operational model dependent entirely on DLA TSS meal procurement.

Custom assembly and flexible food packaging