Weststar Food Co LLC

Weststar Food Co LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Corpus Christi, Texas, supplies dry beans, lentils, and legume commodities to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor exclusively under small business set-asides — 100% of its recent federal award footprint consists of prime definitive contracts and indefinite delivery vehicles with no subcontract activity.

The company operates across two primary USDA customer divisions. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service holds 51 awards ($15.8 million combined potential value), while the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office drives the largest dollar concentration at 23 awards ($25.1 million combined potential value). The Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office, the Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crops Program, and the Foreign Agricultural Service Food for Progress program round out the customer set. These five USDA sub-agencies account for 95% of awards and 96% of combined potential value, indicating severe customer concentration within a single parent department. Weststar's work supports domestic food assistance initiatives including the National School Lunch Program, food bank distributions, and USG food donations programs.

Weststar's capability portfolio centers exclusively on packaged shelf-stable legume commodities. Representative work includes a $4.4 million definitive contract with the Agricultural Marketing Service (April 2023) for split pea beans in 12/2-pound packages, a $2.8 million partial small business set-aside delivery from the Agricultural Marketing Service (February 2024) for navy, light red kidney, and pinto beans in multiple package formats, and a $2.1 million Food for Progress award (September 2024) for 50-kilogram bags of pinto beans. The source notes the company holds two indefinite delivery vehicles with the USDA to establish recurring pricing for dry bean procurement. All products supplied are required to be products of the United States origin, grown, processed, and prepared domestically.

The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides (majority of awards) and partial small business set-asides (secondary posture), with occasional full-and-open awards. The vendor holds minimal vehicle infrastructure — the two named IDVs (123J1423D0029 and 123J1423D0092) carry $371 thousand and $197 thousand in combined potential value respectively and represent single-award or multiple-award indefinite delivery arrangements established to streamline commodity procurement across FY cycles. Award activity averaged six to nine awards annually from 2022 to 2025, declining to four awards in 2026 year-to-date. Three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $2.2 million in combined potential value, constituting modest recompete exposure. The company's SAM registration dates to 2005, and recent award documentation references more than $25 million in cumulative USDA contract awards since 2021. NAICS classification concentrates in 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing, 69 awards) and 311421 (Fruit and Vegetable Canning, 11 awards), with PSC 8915 (Fruits and Vegetables) accounting for 101 of 106 awards.

Wholesale dry bean distribution. Receive beans via railcar. Utilize two 60,000 square foot warehouses, capable of storing 1500+ metric tons of beans/ packaging for 1lb bags up to 3000lb totes. We get most of our beans from North Dakota and Montana.