Winona Foods Inc.

Winona Foods Inc., a Wisconsin-based dairy manufacturer, supplies shredded cheddar cheese products to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor on full-and-open definitive contracts and delivery orders, competing without set-aside designations. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Howard, Wisconsin, operating across primary NAICS 311412 (Cheese Manufacturing) and PSC 8910 (Dairy Foods and Eggs). Winona Foods holds no small business certifications and competes directly against other qualified commercial suppliers.

Customer concentration is absolute: 100% of the vendor's 47 recent awards fund USDA programs, split between the Food and Nutrition Service (39 awards, $41.9 million combined potential value) and the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office (8 awards, $14.1 million). The two rankings align perfectly. The Food and Nutrition Service dominates both volume and dollars through an established $14.2 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (IDC 123J1425D0006) that expired December 31, 2025 but generated 12 task orders carrying $12 million in combined potential value. Winona Foods holds three additional IDCs with USDA: one valued at $641,264 with the Food and Nutrition Service (awarded February 2026, completion June 30, 2027); one valued at $1.3 million with the Agricultural Marketing Service (expired September 30, 2023); and a historical $2 million contract with the Food and Nutrition Service (expired December 31, 2021). Across the portfolio, task orders and definitive contracts specify shredded yellow cheddar, reduced-fat cheddar, white cheddar, pepper jack, and Swiss cheese in configurations ranging from 6/5-pound bags to 6/2-pound packages to sliced formats.

Recent activity shows acceleration: five awards in each of 2022, 2023, and 2024, then fourteen awards in 2025, with three awards issued year-to-date through May 2026. Representative recent work includes a $5.9 million definitive contract from USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (April 2026) for shredded cheddar in 12/1-pound and 6/2-pound packages; a $2.5 million delivery order from the Food and Nutrition Service (July 2025) for mixed cheddar varieties in 6/5-pound bags; and a $639,201 delivery order (September 2025) for reduced-fat and standard cheddar in 6/5-pound configurations. Winona Foods placed $35.1 million in obligated dollars across the portfolio, representing 63% of combined potential value of $56 million. Only two awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $6 million), creating minimal recompete pressure in the immediate window. The vendor manufactures and ships commodity dairy products exclusively to support federal domestic food assistance initiatives including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, with all performance executed from its Howard, Wisconsin facility on firm fixed-price or fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment terms. The company operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data.