United Food Service, Inc.

United Food Service, Inc., the Shamrock Foods Company Division, operates as a prime contractor supplying frozen proteins, prepared entrees, seafood, dairy products, and specialty food items to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies on full-and-open federal contracts, with no set-aside participation. The vendor competes openly without SBA certifications and delivers institutional food products for military dining facility operations across domestic locations, with primary distribution and logistics centered in Denver, Colorado.

United Food Service's federal footprint centers on a single dominant customer. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence division accounts for 27,482 awards (100% of recent activity) with combined potential value of $259.4 million, representing nearly all of the vendor's federal work. The parent Indefinite Delivery Contract, awarded April 18, 2025, carries a $34.413 million ceiling through November 14, 2026, and operates as a firm fixed-price vehicle on which United Food Service competes openly for ongoing delivery orders. Representative delivery orders placed against this IDC include a $10,706.56 order (April 10, 2026) for Individually Quick Frozen chicken breast fillets, a $21,914.10 order (March 23, 2026) for whole liquid eggs, a $37,473.40 order (March 2, 2026) for meal kits with beverages and breakfast cereal, and a $23,702.56 order (March 24, 2026) for beef flank steak. DLA Troop Support Subsistence's dominance is near-absolute; all other customer agencies combined (Air Force Academy, Bureau of Prisons, Forest Service Job Corps) represent less than 1% of award count and value.

The parent vendor, Shamrock Foods Company, is a for-profit manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. United Food Service operates as a division of this larger enterprise but carries distinct federal contracting presence and SAM registration. The broader corporate structure has generated 27,952 federal awards since 1997, though the source data reflects only United Food Service's division-level activity in recent cycles. Activity per year has fluctuated significantly: 1,804 awards in 2022, declining to 1,329 in 2024, then recovering to 1,575 in 2025, with 401 awards recorded through mid-2026. Recent annual award volume sits below 2022–2023 peaks, signaling either maturation of the existing IDC framework or reduced ordering intensity from DLA.

United Food Service holds five named parent IDCs issued by DLA Troop Support Subsistence, with task-order volumes concentrated on two vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE30020D3268 (8,135 task orders, $36 million combined potential value) and Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE30014D3041 (11,021 task orders, $26.5 million combined potential value). Three smaller vehicles carry 1,482 to 1,845 task orders each. The top two vehicles alone represent nearly 80% of task-order volume. The vendor's product portfolio spans meat, poultry, and fish (9,799 awards under NAICS specialty food preparations), dairy foods and eggs (4,745 awards), and bakery products (1,383 awards), reflecting the breadth of institutional feeding requirements served. Obligated dollars across all awards total $131.9 million, or 33% of combined potential value, indicating staged drawdown against ceiling allocations.

The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data, directly delivering food products rather than managing supply chains through sub-tier relationships. Place of performance for all recorded work sits in Denver, Colorado, where the vendor maintains warehousing and distribution infrastructure to serve military dining facilities. Competition posture is full-and-open across all named awards, with no set-aside designations, meaning the vendor competes against all qualified bidders on each delivery order rather than within SBA-reserved pools.