Federal contractor · FORT WORTH, TX

BEN E KEITH CO

BEN E KEITH CO received $799.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 25 awards (−27% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $9.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($799.3K).

Obligations · FY2026: $799.3K
New awards: 25
Sole-source: 30%
Single offer: 19%

UEI: WMLLAHLQX7L1

Other than small business

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

976.8KFY2017
763.2KFY2018
916KFY2019
628.3KFY2020
598KFY2021
1.1MFY2022
1.4MFY2023
1.6MFY2024
1.1MFY2025
799.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Army$799.3K100%
25 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$758.3K95%
Facilities & utilities$41K5.1%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Low competition49%
US 39% · $391.4K
Sole-source awards30%
US 30% · $240K
Single-offer competitions19%
US 8.8% · $151.4K
Urgency justifications0.0%
US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

Department of the Army$240K
Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

SUBSISTENCE ITEMS FOR 92G TO COOK FOR ANNUAL TRAINING$275.5K
Department of the Army· Tarrant County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· May 21, 2026 – Jun 12, 2026· W912JC26PA006
CONTRACTOR SHALL FURNISH AND DELIVER SUBSISTENCE SUCH AS FOOD AND ANY MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES REQUIRED TO SUPPORT PROVIDING FOOD FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF MESS FACILITIES OF WATER-BORNE VICKSBURG AND MEMPHIS DISTRICTS FIELD UNITS.$240K
Department of the Army· Warren County, MS· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 22, 2025 – Dec 22, 2025· W912EE26FA015
RAW SUBSISTENCE ITEMS FOR FEBRUARY 2026 INACTIVE DUTY TRAINING (IDT) PERIOD TO SUPPORT VARIOUS ARKANSAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD UNITS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. PURCHASE THROUGH BEN E. KEITH (BEK).$40K
Department of the Army· Pulaski County, AR· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 23, 2026 – Jan 23, 2026· W912JF26FA012
RAW SUBSISTENCE ITEMS FOR APRIL 2026 INACTIVE DUTY TRAINING (IDT) PERIOD TO SUPPORT VARIOUS ARKANSAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD UNITS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. PURCHASE THROUGH BEN E. KEITH (BEK).$28K
Department of the Army· Pulaski County, AR· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 20, 2026 – Mar 20, 2026· W912JF26FA015
RAW SUBSISTENCE ITEMS$24.6K
Department of the Army· Saline County, KS· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 24, 2026 – Jun 2, 2026· W912JC26FA038
RAW SUBSISTENCE FOR DRILL WEEKEND IN OCTOBER 2025.$21.4K
Department of the Army· Pulaski County, AR· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 7, 2025 – Dec 2, 2025· W912JF26FA001
RAW RATION SUBSISTENCE ITEMS$18K
Department of the Army· Saline County, KS· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 13, 2026 – Mar 23, 2026· W912JC26FA020
RAW SUBSISTENCE ITEMS$17K
Department of the Army· Saline County, KS· Facilities & utilities· Dec 17, 2025 – Dec 17, 2025· W912JC26FA010

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

FY2022: $0 paid out · $84K received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $192K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $276K reported

SERRATO CORPORATION$192K
TUCSON, AZ · 1 subaward · Technical and trade schools
EDUCATION & TRAINING RESOURCES LLC$84K
BOWLING GREEN, KY · 1 subaward · Technical and trade schools

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

WHITE DAIRY ICE CREAM CO INC$1.8M+43% in FY2026
VAN BUREN, AR · 42% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other food manufacturingArmy · Special food services
MORGAN BESTWAY$1.3M+63% in FY2026
VICKSBURG, MS · 39% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other food manufacturing
SPACE AGE ENGINEERING, INC$3.1M−100% in FY2026
CHATSWORTH, CA · 51% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other food manufacturingArmy · Special food services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

BEN E KEITH COMPANYAI match · 100%

PAC giving · 2026: $7,500; 1 PAC

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Republican$5,00067%
Democratic$2,50033%

PACs sponsored

BEN E KEITH COMPANY FEDERAL PAC$25K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2026 cycle

Craig A. Goldman$2,500
R-TX-12 · House · 1 PAC
Pete Sessions$2,500
R-TX-17 · House · 1 PAC
Marc A. Veasey$2,500
D-TX-33 · House · 1 PAC

$7,500 of the $7,500 its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 3 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Jasmine Crockett$2,500
D-TX-30 · House · 1 PAC
Jake Ellzey$2,500
R-TX-6 · House · 1 PAC
Craig A. Goldman$2,500
R-TX-12 · House · 1 PAC
Nathaniel Moran$2,500
R-TX-1 · House · 1 PAC
Marc A. Veasey$2,500
D-TX-33 · House · 1 PAC

$12.5K of the $13.5K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 5 members of Congress.

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.