Harrie Benjamin Kirk

Harrie Benjamin Kirk, doing business as H B Kirk, is a sole proprietorship based in Terre Haute, Indiana that sells proprietary seed treatment research reports and data subscriptions to federal agencies as a prime contractor on small purchase orders, with no subcontract footprint and no set-aside designations across its prime awards.

H B Kirk operates in a narrow specialty: the vendor develops and licenses multi-year datasets and analytical reports on crop seed treatment usage patterns and agricultural chemical applications, bundled with Word documents, Excel databases, and virtual presentation services. The vendor's federal work centers on two customer agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention has awarded two purchase orders totaling $41 thousand in combined potential value—a $21.5 thousand subscription to the 2012–2021 Ben Kirk Seed Treatment Report (awarded September 9, 2022, completed September 11, 2023) and a $19 thousand one-year subscription to Ben Kirk Row Crop Seed Treatment Usage Data covering 2023–2025 (awarded August 4, 2026, performing through August 4, 2027). The Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Economist has placed two awards totaling $30 thousand for proprietary seed treatment services and reports (one in 2022 for $9 thousand, covering August through December 2022). All four awards are unset-aside purchase orders. Activity is sparse and episodic—one award in 2021, two in 2022, a gap through 2023–2025, then one award in August 2026—with combined potential value across the entire source record of $70 thousand and full obligation against that value. One award, the August 2026 EPA purchase order, reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represents the vendor's only near-term recompete exposure.