Knight Judith

Knight Judith, a woman-owned small business operating as a sole proprietorship based in Woodbridge, Virginia, provides herbarium curation and botanical conservation services to the Smithsonian Institution as a prime contractor on firm fixed-price purchase orders. Registered with the federal government since August 2012, Knight Judith competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements; one of three recent awards carries a woman-owned small business set-aside designation, but the vendor does not rely on set-asides as a business model.

Knight Judith's federal customer base is entirely concentrated with the Smithsonian Institution, which accounts for all five prime awards and the full $230 thousand in combined potential value across the source data window. Recent representative work includes a $41,372.50 firm fixed-price purchase order for curator and conservation services focused on botany, executed August 27, 2025 and extending through March 31, 2026; a $69,680.00 purchase order for APG Phase IV reorganization conservation and curation work, awarded August 13, 2024; and a $51,484.05 woman-owned small business set-aside purchase order for APG vascular plant herbarium contractor services, completed December 1, 2023. The work centers on Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification, herbarium management, plant conservation, and collections curation supporting the Smithsonian's botanical research mission. All five awards in the source data are prime contracts; Knight Judith has no subcontract footprint and does not sit on IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs. Activity is sparse and episodic — one award each in 2013, 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2025 — with no trajectory signal and minimal recompete exposure beyond the two active purchase orders. The vendor's capability portfolio is highly specialized and geographically narrow, limiting scalability and diversification potential beyond Smithsonian Institution work.