Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

JOHN HOFMEISTER & SON INC

JOHN HOFMEISTER & SON INC received $21.1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 15 awards (+53% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $202.2M. Its largest customer was Agricultural Marketing Service ($21.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$21.1M
New awards
15
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
1.5%
UEI
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Small businessHUBZone firm
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 16.4MFY2017
  2. 18MFY2018
  3. 27.8MFY2019
  4. 20.2MFY2020
  5. 22.7MFY2021
  6. 26.9MFY2022
  7. 16.1MFY2023
  8. 19.2MFY2024
  9. 13.8MFY2025
  10. 21.1MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Agricultural Marketing Service$21.1M100%
    15 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$21.1M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cook County, IL$21.1M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition1.5%
    US 39% · $307.5K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions1.5%
    US 8.7% · $307.5K
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011531/4100035039/PORK HAM WATERAD SLC FRZ PKG-8/5 LB$6.3M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 21, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026· 123J1426C1979
  2. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000010985/4100033017/PORK HAM WATERAD FRZ CTN-12/3 LB$3.1M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 19, 2025 – Jan 16, 2026· 123J1425C2018
  3. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000009520/4100028182/PORK HAM SMKD PIT FRZ CTN#6/5 LB,PORK HAM WATERAD SLC FRZ PKG-8/5 LB,PORK HAM WTRADCBEDFRZ PKG-4/10 OR 8/5 LB$2.9M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 4, 2023 – Feb 19, 2026· 123J1423C2035
  4. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011336/4100034381/PORK HAM SMKD PIT FRZ CTN-6/5 LB,PORK HAM WATERAD SLC FRZ PKG-8/5 LB,PORK HAM WTRADCBEDFRZ PKG-4/10 OR 8/5 LB,PORK HAM WATERAD FRZ CTN-12/3 LB,PORK HAM WATERAD FRZ PKG 4/10 LB$2.6M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 5, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 123J1426C1321
  5. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011457/4100034846/PORK HAM SMKD PIT FRZ CTN-6/5 LB,PORK HAM WATERAD SLC FRZ PKG-8/5 LB$2.4M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 20, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· 123J1426C1786
  6. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011484/4100034858/PORK HAM WATERAD FRZ CTN-12/3 LB$2.2M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 24, 2026 – Sep 29, 2026· 123J1426C1798
  7. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011380/4100034587/PORK HAM WATERAD SLC FRZ PKG-8/5 LB,PORK HAM WTRADCBEDFRZ PKG-4/10 OR 8/5 LB,PORK HAM WATERAD FRZ CTN-12/3 LB$2M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 16, 2026 – Sep 29, 2026· 123J1426C1527
  8. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000008874/4100026489/TURKEY HAM SMKD SLC FRZ PKG-8/5 LB$1.9M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 16, 2022 – Jan 27, 2026· 123J1423C0199

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.

JOHN HOFMEISTER & SON INC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 730KFY2021

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 · FY2021.

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.

  1. MAINSTAY DISTRIBUTING, LLC$52.8M+8.2% in FY2026
    NORWALK, WI · 98% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Animal slaughtering and processing
  2. JBS USA FOOD COMPANY$48.2M+115% in FY2026
    GREELEY, CO · 3 entities · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Animal slaughtering and processing
  3. FLORIDA BEEF INC$44.4M−100% in FY2026
    ZOLFO SPRINGS, FL · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Animal slaughtering and processing

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.