Justice Department's Food Service Dominance Masks Massive Small Business Set-Aside Opportunity
WinAContract · Aug 21, 2026
Justice's $823.5 million contract portfolio is overwhelmingly skewed toward food manufacturing and hospital services, with 1,045 small business set-asides currently available and 411 new opportunities posted in the last month.
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Open right now
1,640
On record
383
Awards
$823,558,006
Total awarded
The Department of Justice's contracting footprint is dominated by a single use case: feeding and caring for incarcerated populations. Nearly 70% of top NAICS codes are food manufacturing categories, reflecting the scale of prison commissary and meal service operations. Yet beneath this narrow specialization lies a highly accessible small business market, with small business set-asides comprising 64% of all 1,640 opportunities on record.
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