GRO Alliance LLC

GRO Alliance LLC, a Wisconsin-based for-profit agricultural research services company, operates as a prime contractor providing corn genetics breeding, seed production, and field research services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture under unrestricted (full-and-open) purchase orders. The vendor competes without set-aside designation across its entire recent prime footprint and has no subcontract work in the source data.

GRO Alliance specializes in establishing and maintaining isolated corn crossing blocks, hand-pollinated corn breeding nurseries, and winter nursery operations that support the USDA's Germplasm Enhancement of Maize (GEM) Project, a multi-year initiative to enhance corn genetic diversity through controlled field breeding protocols. Representative prime work includes a $212,038 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded April 18, 2026 by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Midwest Area for isolated crossing blocks and hand-pollinated nurseries at Iowa State University's Plant Introduction Research Unit in Ames, running through December 1, 2026; a $194,125 contract awarded May 3, 2024 for corn isolated crossing blocks and breeding nursery operations; a $212,688 contract awarded May 25, 2023 for eight isolated crossing blocks and two hand-pollinated nurseries with November 2023 completion; and two winter nursery operations in Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region (September 2024, $14,835 and September 2025, $86,555), where GRO Alliance executes field activities including land preparation, planting, pollination, harvest, and seed preparation for shipment back to USDA. GRO Alliance also received a $438,500 Rural Energy for America Program (CFDA 10.868) project grant from USDA Rural Business Cooperative Services awarded December 16, 2024 for renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements, running through December 2026.

The vendor's customer base is concentrated with a single federal organization: the USDA ARS Midwest Area accounts for all seven prime contracts and their combined $830 thousand potential value; the Rural Business Cooperative Services award adds a second USDA customer for the remaining $55 thousand. Total prime footprint across contracts and grants stands at eight awards with $885 thousand combined potential value. Activity has been episodic — one award per year in 2022 and 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — rather than sustained growth. Two awards carrying $212 thousand in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and present recompete exposure. The vendor's capability set maps to corn farming (NAICS 111150) and seed collection and production (PSC) rather than broader agricultural consulting or research services, and the vendor operates with a small business size standard of under $2.5 million.