Citrus World, Inc.

Citrus World, Inc., doing business as Florida's Natural Growers, is a large agricultural cooperative that supplies citrus juice products to the federal government. As the largest citrus cooperative in the U.S., the company leverages its extensive experience and production capabilities to provide orange, grapefruit, and other fruit juice products in support of various food assistance and agricultural commodity programs.

Past prime federal contract awards to Citrus World, Inc. have predominantly entailed supplying plastic bottles containing orange or grapefruit juice to agencies such as the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service, Farm Service Agency, and Food and Nutrition Service. These definitive contracts, often valued between $1-10 million, call for the delivery of hundreds of thousands of cases of bottled juice over multi-month performance timeframes under firm fixed price structures. Fulfillment occurs at Florida's Natural Growers' Lake Wales, Florida headquarters, with no major subcontractors identified. While some awards have partial small business set-asides, most do not utilize set-aside provisions. The supplied juice products help facilitate the USDA's domestic and international marketing of agricultural goods as well as food assistance distribution efforts that provide healthy commodities to recipients nationwide.