Gumix International, Inc.

Gumix International, Inc., a small business based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, supplies agar powder and microbiological media to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) as a prime contractor, operating entirely under single-award indefinite-delivery contracts and delivery orders with no subcontract footprint. The vendor competes under total small business set-asides on its primary IDIQ vehicle and across selected purchase orders, though the majority of individual delivery orders are placed without set-aside designation.

Gumix's customer concentration is extreme: 82% of recent awards and 99% of combined potential value derive from USDA APHIS divisions, with 23 awards valued at $6.4 million concentrated within the Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) division. The remaining four awards scattered across APHIS International Services and Trade Support Team ($38 thousand), APHIS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services ($30 thousand), and general APHIS ($24 thousand) account for less than 1% of the portfolio. Work is performed at multiple APHIS PPQ facilities in Brownsville and Sarasota, Florida, and Edinburg, Texas, with recent scope including agar powder supply for mexfly sterile production and microbiological research supporting plant pest and disease containment.

Gumix holds three primary parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (12639523D0053) with eight task orders totaling $340 thousand in combined potential value; IDC AG6395C160069 with five task orders and $161 thousand combined potential value; and IDC 12639521D0060 with four task orders and $154 thousand. The largest single vehicle is the total small business IDIQ awarded April 12, 2023, with a $344,400 ceiling and ultimate completion date of March 14, 2025. Representative awards include a $56,140 delivery order (May 2023) for 1,400 kilograms of agar powder to Edinburg, Texas; a $40,100 delivery order (September 2023) for 1,000 kilograms to Sarasota, Florida; and a $13,240 purchase order (May 2026) for 400 kilograms of agar powder and garcillaria trapping material for sterile mexfly production in Reynosa, Mexico. Award activity has contracted from three awards in 2021 to one award in 2026, with combined obligated dollars of $813 thousand against $6.5 million in combined potential value, reflecting the episodic delivery-order pattern typical of small-quantity commodity supply.

Gumix's NAICS profile aligns with chemical manufacturing and wholesale distribution: Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing dominates at 17 awards, with All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing and All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing each accounting for five awards. The primary PSC coding is Chemicals (22 awards), with Composite Food Packages and Miscellaneous Items rounding out the mix. The vendor operates as a specialized supplier in a narrow, high-frequency-ordering niche with a single federal customer and no visible prime-contractor growth trajectory beyond APHIS PPQ commodity replenishment cycles.