Stutz Packing Company

Stutz Packing Company, doing business as Stutz Packing Co., supplies dried fruits, nuts, dehydrated vegetables, and related packaged commodities to the Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor under total or partial small business set-asides. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Chiriaco Summit, California, operating across NAICS 311911 (Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing) and 311423 (Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing), with 206 prime awards across five USDA sub-agencies totaling $922.7 million in combined potential value since 2013.

Stutz Packing's capability footprint is narrowly focused on commodity procurement and fulfillment for federal food assistance programs. The vendor sources, processes, and packages shelf-stable agricultural products—dried cranberries, walnuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, pecans, almonds, dates, raisins, dried cherries, blueberries, and dehydrated potatoes—in consumer-ready formats (24-count 1-pound packages, 12-count 2-pound cases, and similar unit sizes) for delivery to distribution centers nationwide. Representative work spans a $59.8 million definitive contract (June 2023) for roasted in-shell pistachios, a $39.9 million definitive contract (July 2021) for roasted pistachios in 2-pound bags, and a $22.8 million definitive contract (May 2025) for pecan pieces, hazelnuts, and roasted pistachios supporting the National School Lunch Program and The Emergency Food Assistance Program. The vendor also holds multiple indefinite delivery contracts: a $14.9 million IDC (July 2024) for dried cranberries, an $8.4 million IDC (February 2024) for packaged hazelnuts, and a $2.7 million IDC (May 2024) for mixed dried fruits and nuts.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The Department of Agriculture accounts for 100% of awards across five internal offices. The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office drives the portfolio with 113 awards ($693.1 million combined potential value), followed distantly by the Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office (12 awards, $129.5 million), the Food and Nutrition Service (64 awards, $53.9 million), the Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crops Program (15 awards, $44 million), and the Livestock Poultry and Seed Program (2 awards, $2.2 million). Within the AMS Washington Office tier, firm fixed-price definitive contracts dominate the award type and set-aside posture, with total or partial small business designations recurrent across the prime footprint.

Stutz Packing competes 100% under small business set-asides on recent work—predominantly total small business designations, with partial small business (50% or 75% reserved) appearing in roughly 40% of awards in the sample. The vendor has not placed work on government-wide contracts, GWACs, or multi-agency IDIQs; all activity flows through direct USDA vehicles and solicitations. Three indefinite delivery contracts serve as the primary parent vehicles: IDC 123J1424D0174 (3 task orders, $7.4 million), IDC 123J1424D0030 (1 task order, $14.3 million), and IDC 123J1424D0072 (1 task order, $1.6 million), all managed by USDA AMS.

Activity has tracked consistently at 20–28 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with slight contraction in 2025–2026 (20 and 8 awards respectively in partial-year reporting). Six awards carrying combined potential value of $11.2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and present recompete exposure. Stutz Packing operates exclusively as a prime and has no subcontractor footprint in the source data. The vendor's entry point to federal contracting dates to August 2013, anchored entirely within agricultural commodity procurement for USDA food donation and child nutrition programs—a narrow, set-aside-protected niche with limited cross-agency portability or adjacency to other federal procurement verticals.