Purchase Order 140FS224P0415

This $13,614.43 firm-fixed price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Shooting Star Native Seeds Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, for the provision of prairie seed mixes to establish diverse native prairies on the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge and the Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin. The seed mixes include a pollinator mix, dry prairie mix, dry forb enhancement mix, mesic prairie mix, and wet meadow mix, totaling approximately 41 acres. This contract is not set-aside and is part of a larger $9.5 million, 10-year Blanket Purchase Agreement the vendor holds with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Midwest region for native grass seed and forbs. Shooting Star Native Seeds Inc. is a reliable supplier of locally adapted native seed varieties that has established itself as a provider of native plant materials to support various federal environmental initiatives and habitat restoration projects across the United States.