Southeastern Bottling Company Of Arizona, Inc.

Southeastern Bottling Company Of Arizona, Inc., doing business as Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company Of Safford, supplies branded beverages in bulk formats to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor under multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its entire federal footprint.

The company is a for-profit corporate entity headquartered in Safford, Arizona, with no SBA set-aside certifications. Its federal work centers on the supply of carbonated sodas (Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew), sports drinks (Gatorade in Fruit Punch and Orange), ready-to-drink teas (Lipton Brisk), fruit juices (Tropicana), and concentrated beverage bases (Lemon-Lime, Pomegranate) in 3-gallon and 5-gallon bag-in-box formats and concentrated formulations for military dining facilities. Representative prime awards include a $1.7 million lemon-lime beverage base delivery order from DLA Troop Support Subsistence (October 24, 2025), a $1.58 million Gatorade Fruit Punch 3-gallon bag-in-box order (October 3, 2025), and a $2.4 million lemon-lime base delivery order (June 26, 2025), all firm fixed-price, non-set-aside awards with typical completion within one to three weeks of issuance.

Customer concentration is extreme and tilted toward commissary work by potential value. The top two funding agencies account for 99% of recent awards, but Defense Commissary Agency (38 awards, $79.2 million combined potential value) anchors the dollars while Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence dominates the order count (939 awards, $31.2 million combined potential value). This divergence reflects DLA's high-volume, low-dollar-per-order replenishment model versus DeCA's smaller order count carrying higher unit values. The vendor also serves the Department of Agriculture Forest Service (2 awards, $19 thousand) and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution in Safford (2 awards, $1 thousand) as secondary customers.

Southeastern Bottling holds five active parent indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Troop Support Subsistence and DeCA, each valued at $4.9 million. The three DLA IDCs (SPE30021D9213, SPE30023D9213, SPE30024D9213, and SPE30025D9213) with performance periods extending through 2029–2030 have generated 359 delivery orders since early 2024, representing the bulk of federal activity. A fourth vehicle, SPE30015D9233, carries 406 task orders with only $244 thousand combined potential value—likely a historical or exhausted contract. The company issued over 300 individual delivery orders to DLA Troop Support Subsistence between August 2023 and December 2025, with individual order values ranging from under $150 to $2.4 million and typical pricing in the $400–$1,500 range.

Activity has remained consistent in recent years, averaging 85–95 awards per year from 2022 through 2024, with 84 awards in 2025 and 29 recorded through mid-April 2026. The combined potential value across all 987 prime awards stands at $120.6 million, though only $2.7 million (2%) has been obligated to date, reflecting the indefinite-delivery structure where ceilings far exceed executed spend. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurement across all work with no set-aside restrictions, appearing primarily under NAICS 311820 (Commercial Bakeries, 660 awards), 311991 (Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing, 198 awards), and 4245 (General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers, 50 awards), though PSC category 5110 (Beverages, Nonalcoholic) governs 730 of the 987 awards. Southeastern Bottling operates as a 100% prime contractor with no identified subcontract activity, handling all production and delivery in-house from its Safford, Arizona location.