Valley Foods Inc.

Valley Foods Inc., doing business as Valley Foodsystems, a woman-owned small business manufacturer and distributor of food products based in Youngstown, Ohio, delivers military subsistence items—individual meal rations, boxed rations, shelf-stable meals, fresh groceries, meats, and poultry—to federal agencies as a prime contractor, predominantly through indefinite delivery vehicles and single-award contracts with Army National Guard units and the Defense Logistics Agency.

The company is a for-profit manufacturer and small business classified as woman-owned. Its federal award footprint spans 3,570 prime awards across 39 customer agencies, with combined potential value of $343.9 million and $170.9 million obligated (50% burn rate). Recent activity has remained relatively stable—between 58 and 96 awards annually over the past five years, with 18 awards recorded year-to-date as of April 2026.

Customer concentration is pronounced and regionally anchored. The top five agencies (by combined potential value) account for 93% of all awards. The Pennsylvania Army National Guard dominates the dollar volume at $116.7 million across 257 awards, anchored by a $25 million single-award indefinite delivery contract (W912KC-22-D-0001, ultimate completion July 4, 2027) for raw subsistence delivery to 157 statewide locations. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence follows at $109.5 million across 89 awards, reflecting Valley Foodsystems' role as a supplier of chicken breast strips, turkey sausage patties, and related meat products. The Virginia Army National Guard (1,676 awards, $40.8 million), Ohio Army National Guard (727 awards, $29.8 million), and the Department of the Army broadly (477 awards, $24.6 million) round out the active set. Volume and dollars diverge sharply: Virginia dominates award count but ranks third in dollars; Pennsylvania ranks fourth in award count but first in dollars. The Virginia and Ohio accounts reflect high transaction frequency with lower ceiling values, typically $15,000 to $250,000 per delivery order; Pennsylvania and DLA orders run higher, often $200,000 to $800,000 per task.

Capability portfolio centers on subsistence procurement under requirements contracts and basic ordering agreements. Representative work includes a $3.18 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency Subsistence for chicken breast strips (March 17, 2026, ultimate completion July 15, 2026, full and open, no set-aside); a $1.42 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency for turkey sausage patties (July 17, 2025, October 30, 2025, unrestricted); a $365,000 delivery order from the Pennsylvania National Guard for April 2026 subsistence (March 29, 2026, Total Small Business set-aside); and a $554.5 million definitive contract from the Virginia Army National Guard for rations and raw subsistence spanning December 2023 through February 2024 (awarded December 1, 2023, ultimate completion July 22, 2024, no set-aside). Delivery orders typically run two to four weeks and carry firm fixed pricing.

Vehicle position shows concentration on single-award indefinite delivery contracts rather than government-wide or multi-agency vehicles. Valley Foodsystems holds four named IDVs: the $25 million Pennsylvania Army National Guard requirements contract (W912KC-22-D-0001, Total Small Business set-aside, July 2022 through July 2027), the $5 million Virginia Army National Guard indefinite delivery contract (Total Small Business set-aside, June 2024 through June 2026), the $1.2 million Maryland Army National Guard indefinite delivery contract (May 2022 through May 2027), and a $874,832 basic ordering agreement with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence for individual meal rations supporting FEMA emergency response (October 2024 through October 2026, unrestricted). The top parent vehicles by task order volume are predominantly Virginia and Ohio Army National Guard indefinite delivery contracts: W912LQ13D0002 (1,509 task orders, $8 million combined value), W9136404D0001 (249 task orders, $2.5 million), W9136410D0001 (225 task orders, $6.5 million), and W9136416D0001 (217 task orders, $5.7 million). These vehicles drive transaction velocity but carry modest per-order ceilings.

Set-aside posture is split. Approximately 35% of recent awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations, primarily under Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Ohio Army National Guard contracts. The remaining 65% are full and open or unrestricted, reflecting Valley Foodsystems' competitive standing against larger vendors on Defense Logistics Agency meat and poultry deliveries and day-to-day Army subsistence orders. The company does not appear on women-owned small business sole-source or 8(a) vehicles; it competes under its WOSB designation on set-aside vehicles and unrestricted on the broader market.

Activity trajectory shows relative stability with a slight downward trend. The company sustained 96 awards in 2022, declined to 74 in 2023, recovered to 75 in 2024, and dropped to 58 in 2025. Year-to-date 2026 reports only 18 awards, suggesting either measurement lag or seasonal variation. Recompete exposure over the next twenty-four months is minimal: only five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of approximately $295 thousand. The $25 million Pennsylvania IDV and $5 million Virginia IDV both extend well beyond the two-year window, insulating the vendor from near-term recompete risk on its largest vehicles.

Subcontract footprint is zero by the source's definition—Valley Foodsystems operates exclusively as a prime contractor on all 3,570 awards in the portfolio. No sub-award data is present.

Capability concentration by NAICS and PSC reflects pure commodity food supply. General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (NAICS 424410) anchors 1,712 awards; Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing (311412) accounts for 747 awards; and Food Service Contractors (562991) covers 460 awards. By product classification (PSC), Meat, Poultry, and Fish (8515) dominate at 1,530 awards, followed closely by Composite Food Packages (8520) at 1,514 awards. The portfolio shows no engineering, IT, logistics, or support services work—the vendor is a pure food manufacturer and distributor. Pricing is firm-fixed on all visible delivery orders, suggesting commodity-based, stable-margin supply arrangements.

Provide both prepared and raw foods from our USDA inspected facility in Northeastern Ohio serving seniors, school lunches and military. Specialty manufacturing as well for items like meal kits and boxed lunches