Federal contractor · WYOMING, MI

GORDON FOOD SERVICE, INC

GORDON FOOD SERVICE, INC received $347.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 12 awards (−7.3% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $79.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($347.2K).

Obligations · FY2026: $347.2K
New awards: 12
Sole-source: 63%
Single offer: 23%

UEI: NNMWLT6GE358

Other than small business

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

1.5MFY2017
1.5MFY2018
1.1MFY2019
71.3MFY2020
841.5KFY2021
1.3MFY2022
869.7KFY2023
499.8KFY2024
374.5KFY2025
347.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Army$347.2K100%
12 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$347.2K100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition86%
US 39% · $300K
Sole-source awards63%
US 30% · $220K
Single-offer competitions23%
US 8.7% · $80K
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$220K
Department of Defense · 6 awards

Largest awards

FY 26 SEP IDT RATIONS BPA CALL$130K
Department of the Army· Clinton County, MI· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 5, 2026 – Jun 5, 2026· W912JB26FA037
FY 26 MAY IDT RATIONS BPA CALL$60K
Department of the Army· Clinton County, MI· Other equipment & supplies· May 4, 2026 – May 4, 2026· W912JB26FA029
FY 26 JAN IDT RATIONS BPA CALL$54.9K
Department of the Army· Kent County, MI· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 2, 2026 – Mar 17, 2026· W912JB26FA005
TO PROCURE RAW SUBSISTENCE FOR THE ILLINOIS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD (ILARNG) IN SUPPORT OF ANNUAL TRAINING OPERATIONS.$47.2K
Department of the Army· LaSalle County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· May 29, 2026 – May 29, 2026· W91SMC26PA008
FY 26 JUN IDT RATIONS BPA CALL$35K
Department of the Army· Clinton County, MI· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 1, 2026 – Jun 1, 2026· W912JB26FA034
GORDON FOOD SERVICE (GFS) FOR IDT RATIONS FOR APRIL 2026$35K
Department of the Army· Kent County, MI· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 6, 2026 – Apr 6, 2026· W912JB26FA023
FY 26 MAR IDT RATIONS BPA CALL$25K
Department of the Army· Kent County, MI· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 25, 2026 – Jan 25, 2026· W912JB26FA010
FY 26 DEC IDT RATIONS BPA CALL$24K
Department of the Army· Kent County, MI· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 28, 2025 – Feb 6, 2026· W912JB26FA002

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

GORDON FOOD SERVICE, INC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026: $0
New awards: 0
Actions: 0
Since FY2023: $538.3K

Assistance by fiscal year

205.9KFY2023
332.4KFY2024

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2023–FY2024.

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

Sub-grants: $853.2K (8 subawards)

1 prime

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, GOVERNMENT OF$853.2K100%
WASHINGTON, DC · 8 subawards

By fiscal year

FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.9M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $1M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $853.2K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 · $3.7M reported

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, GOVERNMENT OF$3.7M
WASHINGTON, DC · 11 subawards
MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY$57.8K
LANSING, MI · 1 subaward

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

MORGAN BESTWAY$1.3M+63% in FY2026
VICKSBURG, MS · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other food manufacturing
KOEPFER INC$1.1M−42% in FY2026
POCASSET, MA · 90% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other food manufacturing
WHITE DAIRY ICE CREAM CO INC$1.8M+43% in FY2026
VAN BUREN, AR · 99.6% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other food manufacturing

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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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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

Gordon Food Service, Inc.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $130K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $340K

Lobbying by year

2023$70K
4 reports
2024$110K
4 reports
2025$130K
4 reports
2026$30K
2 reports

Top issues

Health issues10 reports
Agriculture5 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code4 reports
Trade (domestic and foreign)2 reports
Banking1 reports
Disaster planning and emergencies1 reports
Labor issues, antitrust and workplace1 reports
Transportation1 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES13 reports
U.S. SENATE11 reports
White House Office2 reports
Executive Office of the President (EOP)1 reports
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)1 reports
Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

K&L GATES LLP$340K
14 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 6780 · Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act4 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2024
S. 2133 · Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Act4 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2024
H.R. 7024 · Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20241 report
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
H.R. 3074 · Common Cents Act1 report
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025

5 of 14 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.