Werling Meats, Inc.

Werling Meats, Inc. is a small disadvantaged business headquartered in Burkettsville, Ohio that manufactures and distributes precooked, sliced bacon to the U.S. military and other federal agencies. The company has been registered in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) since 2016 to conduct business with the federal government.

Through numerous firm fixed price delivery orders, Werling Meats has provided over 5 million pounds of precooked bacon to support the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Subsistence and its mission to supply food and logistics for U.S. military commissaries and exchanges worldwide. These delivery orders, ranging from $597,000 to $790,732 in value, called for the manufacturing and delivery of specific quantities of bacon from Werling Meats' facility in Burkettsville over defined performance periods, typically 4-6 months. The orders were issued against larger indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts established by DLA Troop Support to enable recurring, as-needed procurements of precooked bacon based on demand from installations worldwide. No major subcontractors or set-aside designations were identified across these delivery orders.

Werling Meats holds two active indefinite delivery contracts awarded by DLA Troop Support Subsistence to supply precooked bacon. The first is a $2.96 million IDIQ awarded in November 2019 with ordering through November 2020. The second, a $7.38 million single-award IDIQ awarded in May 2023, grants DLA Troop Support the ability to place recurring delivery orders for precooked bacon through May 2026 to meet military food service requirements. To date, a $790,732 delivery order for 850,992 pounds of bacon has been issued against this latest IDIQ vehicle for performance from May to October 2023. As DLA's primary distributor, the Troop Support Subsistence supply chain leverages IDIQs like these to efficiently procure vital food supplies from established suppliers.