Stutz Packing Company

Stutz Packing Company, doing business as Stutz Packing Co, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Chiriaco Summit, California that supplies dried fruits, nuts, and dehydrated vegetables in consumer-ready packaged formats exclusively to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor. The company operates under NAICS 311423 (Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing) and NAICS 311911 (Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing), with PSC 8915 (Fruits and Vegetables) framing most procurements. Stutz Packing competes entirely under small business set-asides—predominantly Total Small Business and Partial Small Business designations across its 213 prime awards since 2013, with zero subcontractor footprint. The company has not placed work on government-wide contracts or multi-agency IDIQs.

Stutz Packing's capability portfolio centers on sourcing, processing, and packaging shelf-stable agricultural commodities grown and prepared exclusively in the United States for federal food assistance and child nutrition programs. Recent representative work includes a $1.92 billion definitive contract (April 2026) with USDA Agricultural Marketing Service for walnuts and pecan pieces in 24-count 1-pound packages; a $4.88 billion definitive contract (March 2025) for dried sweet cherries in 8/2-pound packages; a $30.1 million definitive contract (February 2024) for roasted-in-shell pistachios supporting the National School Lunch Program and The Emergency Food Assistance Program; and a $22.8 million definitive contract (May 2025) for pecan pieces, hazelnuts, and roasted pistachios. The company delivers dried cranberries, dates, dried cherries and tart cherries, almonds (roasted and natural whole-shell), hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, pistachios, raisins, blueberries, plums, and fruit-and-nut mixes, as well as dehydrated potato flakes.

Customer concentration is absolute within USDA. The five USDA sub-agencies account for 100% of awards. The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office leads with 118 awards totaling $701.5 million combined potential value—a dominant share of the $931.4 million portfolio. The Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office anchors $129.5 million across 12 awards, and the Food and Nutrition Service places 66 awards worth $54.2 million. All remaining USDA organizations (Specialty Crops Program, Livestock Poultry and Seed Program) account for $46.2 million. Award concentration is tight: procurement flows exclusively through direct USDA commodity vehicles rather than government-wide contracts or agency IDIQs.

Stutz Packing holds three active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with USDA: IDC 123J1424D0174 (multiple award, $7.4 million across three task orders), IDC 123J1424D0030 (single award, $14.3 million), and IDC 123J1424D0072 (multiple award, $1.6 million). The company also carried higher-value IDCs in prior years, including a $14.866 million dried cranberry IDC (July 2024 award, December 2024 completion) and an $8.431 million hazelnut IDC (February 2024 award, June 2024 completion).

Activity has been consistent. Awards ranged from 20 to 28 per year over the last five years (2022–2026), with a modest decline to 15 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $931.4 million with $905.4 million obligated (97% execution rate). Ten awards with combined potential value of $15.9 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure in that window.

Stutz Packing operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no identified subcontractor relationships and no sub-awards in the source data. The vendor's entire footprint consists of definitive contracts and task orders placed against USDA commodity procurement vehicles, with firm fixed-price pricing on all awards. All commodities are required to be U.S.-grown and processed under Agricultural Acquisition Regulation compliance. Place of performance is Chiriaco Summit, California for all contracts, with FOB origin or FOB destination delivery to multiple federal distribution locations nationwide. The company's federal contracting activity is concentrated entirely within USDA's food assistance and commodity procurement ecosystem, with no exposure to defense, civilian IT, or multi-agency procurements.