You & I Caterers, Inc.

You & I Caterers, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business and Hispanic American-owned caterer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a prime contractor providing meal preparation and delivery services to the Department of the Army and Army National Guard units across multiple states, competing almost entirely under total small business set-asides.

You & I Caterers operates as a Subchapter S Corporation and holds minority-owned and woman-owned small business designations. The vendor's footprint centers on NAICS 722320 (Caterers), with secondary exposure in food service contracting and perishable prepared food manufacturing. Since 2009, the vendor has secured 121 federal awards totaling $2.7 million in potential value, with $2.2 million obligated to date; activity has accelerated sharply in the past two years, rising from three awards in 2022 to twelve in 2025.

Customer concentration is regional and military-focused. The top five Army and Army National Guard customers account for 89% of recent awards and 86% of combined potential value. The Department of the Army (direct) leads with 39 awards valued at $600 thousand, followed closely by the Colorado Army National Guard (23 awards, $600 thousand), the Montana Army National Guard (18 awards, $514 thousand), the North Dakota Army National Guard (17 awards, $147 thousand), and the Washington Army National Guard (11 awards, $88 thousand). The vendor also serves the Oklahoma Army National Guard and Army Forces Command. Set-aside posture is heavily concentrated in total small business awards; the vendor has competed under set-asides in the vast majority of its recent work, with occasional full-and-open purchase orders.

Representative work includes a $93,600 Department of the Army order for breakfast and dinner meal delivery supporting unit training (May–June 2025), a $37,845 Army contract to deliver 2,970 meals across breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the 168th Regional Training Institute at Fort Carson for FY 2025 unit training assemblies (January–September 2025), and a $32,671.50 yearly meals contract for the Centennial Training Site at Fort Carson covering 2,423 meals across ten contract line items from January through August 2025. Smaller awards include a $32,320 Colorado Army National Guard order for prepared, catered meals with supervision and quality control (June 2025) and a $12,876 Colorado Army National Guard award for 37 daily breakfast and lunch meals supporting a training event (September–October 2024). The vendor also secured a $32,700 non-set-aside order from the Department of the Army for meals supporting 928th Marine Corps Air Station pre-deployment training at Fort Carson (October–November 2025), and an $8,400 Colorado National Guard purchase order for meals delivered to Fort Carson (April–August 2026).

The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards); no subcontract activity is recorded in the source data. One blanket purchase agreement is reflected in the parent-vehicle data (W912L612A0067), representing minimal value. Only one award with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months is flagged in the recompete cliff ($8 thousand), suggesting limited near-term recompete exposure. Meal quantities across contracts range from 37 to nearly 3,000 meals per engagement, with services delivered across Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Washington, and Oklahoma military installations. The vendor's capability centers on temperature-controlled meal delivery meeting myplate.gov nutritional standards, buffet-style catering, individually packaged meals, and on-site supervision and quality control for military training events and unit readiness activities.