Wildkale.com, Inc.

Wildkale.com, Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in New York, supplies locally sourced bread and baked goods to federal correctional facilities as a prime contractor under total small business and woman-owned small business set-asides. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business, and economically disadvantaged small business operating as a Subchapter S corporation; it competes exclusively under small-business set-asides across its entire federal footprint.

Wildkale operates a farm-to-institution procurement platform that aggregates supply from local and mid-sized producers and delivers fresh bread products — rolls, sandwich breads, hamburger and hot dog buns, sliced whole wheat varieties, and specialty items such as Kosher bread — to Bureau of Prisons facilities across the northeastern United States. Representative contracts include a $90.8 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order with Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood for fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 bread delivery, a $102.2 thousand order with Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for the same period, and a $56.7 thousand order with Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill for first-quarter fiscal 2026 supply. All work is performance-based in New York, New York or at the receiving correctional facility, with deliveries subject to Bureau of Prisons National Menu Specifications requiring products arrive within forty-eight hours of baking under strict temperature control and on specified weekly or twice-weekly schedules. The company has executed over thirty quarterly bread supply contracts totaling approximately $1.1 million since fiscal year 2024, demonstrating sustained engagement across multiple BOP facilities.

Customer concentration is extremely tight: the top five Bureau of Prisons facilities account for 64 percent of awards by count, led by Federal Correctional Institution Otisville (ten awards, $266 thousand combined potential value), Federal Correctional Institution Danbury (six awards, $133 thousand), and Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill (six awards, $184 thousand). By dollar value, the ranking shifts slightly; Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood (four awards) and Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix (four awards) each carry higher per-order values at $282 thousand and $248 thousand combined potential value respectively. Wildkale serves thirteen distinct customer agencies across its footprint, but the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons accounts for the overwhelming majority of work. Awards are concentrated in NAICS 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing) and PSC 4210 (Bakery and Cereal Products), with 39 of 47 awards carrying bakery-related coding.

Award velocity has accelerated significantly: one award in 2022, two in 2023, fourteen in 2024, sixteen in 2025, and fourteen in the first half of 2026. Seven awards with combined potential value of $282 thousand reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. Wildkale holds no subcontract footprint — all forty-seven awards are prime actions — and participates in no parent IDVs, GWACs, or BPAs; each award is a standalone purchase order issued directly by individual BOP facilities under unrestricted or small-business-set-aside solicitations. The vendor's federal grant portfolio includes three project grants from the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability (IFPS) totaling unrestricted funding. A September 2023 AMS grant supported the Central New York Online Farm Hub Project, building e-commerce and webstore capability with guaranteed overnight delivery within a 400-mile radius of Morrisville Farms. An IFPS grant running through August 2026 targets development of the WDKL institutional procurement platform — a marketplace technology layering blockchain traceability, food-quality transparency, and smart contract automation to enable schools and other institutions to source directly from small and mid-sized local producers. A third IFPS grant (July 2022 through February 2023) evaluated feasibility of integrating Ripe.io blockchain technology with Wildkale's marketplace to create automated farm-to-institution bidding, contract award, and payment functionality.