Sudano's Produce, LLC

Sudano's Produce, LLC, doing business as Sudanos Produce, supplies fresh produce and food commodities to the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, with 1,095 awards totaling $69.4 million in combined potential value. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business structured as a limited liability company and sole proprietorship based in Hanover, Maryland, operating a division called Maryland Wholesale Produce that delivers fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and prepackaged food boxes to federal correctional facilities and food assistance programs.

Sudano's Produce competes exclusively under total small business set-asides and holds no parent contract vehicles other than a Basic Ordering Agreement with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Bureau of Prisons: the top five Bureau of Prisons locations by award count account for 87 percent of recent awards—Federal Correctional Complex Butner (228 awards, $2.8 million), Federal Correctional Complex Petersburg (217 awards, $1.7 million), Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood (189 awards, $1.3 million), United States Penitentiary Hazleton (177 awards, $1 million), and Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix (145 awards, $1.4 million)—but the two customer rankings diverge sharply on dollar value. The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service anchors 95 percent of combined potential value across just seven awards: a $39.3 million award (Washington Office) and a $21 million award (Specialty Crops Program) under Basic Ordering Agreement 123J1420G0222, both structured as food-donation and pandemic-relief commodities awarded in 2021. These represent a notable historical peak; recent activity (2025–2026) shows only three awards totaling $225 thousand.

Across the Bureau of Prisons contracts, individual purchase orders cluster in the $10 thousand to $15 thousand range for weekly produce deliveries to inmate food service operations at facilities nationwide. The contracts carry firm fixed-price terms and ultimate completion dates typically within weeks of award. Representative examples include a $150 thousand purchase order from Federal Correctional Institution Williamsburg for Q4 FY26 produce (July 6, 2026), a $71 thousand purchase order from the same institution for Q3 FY26 produce including fresh produce, dairy, and religious diet meals (April 6, 2026), and a $4,275 definitive contract from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service for mixed fresh produce (May 5, 2026). Work is performed at the vendor's Hanover, Maryland location with delivery to multiple federal correctional facilities in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, as well as to the Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn.

Activity has been stable in volume but declining in recent year-over-year receipts: 57 awards in 2024 and 57 in 2023, dropping to nine in 2025 and three in the first half of 2026. This decline reflects the sunsetting of the large pandemic-relief USDA orders that anchored the 2021 peak; the Basic Ordering Agreement 123J1420G0222 represented a significant one-time procurement driver. Only two awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $155 thousand, indicating limited recompete exposure in the near term. The vendor's footprint rests entirely on weekly produce supply contracts to Bureau of Prisons facilities, which recur as rolling purchase orders but carry low unit values. NAICS coding confirms concentration: 579 awards fall under All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing, 184 under Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing, and 110 under Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing, with 860 awards tagged to PSC 8915 (Fruits and Vegetables). Sudano's Produce has not earned sub-award work in the source data and does not appear as a subcontractor to larger primes; the company operates as a direct vendor to federal agencies.

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