Millborn Seeds Inc.

Millborn Seeds Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Brookings, South Dakota, supplies native grass, forb, wildflower, and ecosystem restoration seeds to federal land management agencies exclusively as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing under full and open solicitations with no characteristic set-aside posture.

Millborn Seeds' customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, which accounts for 79% of awards by count. The top-ranked customer by both award count and potential value is Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (Midwest), with 23 awards totaling $10 million combined potential value against a $9.5 million ten-year blanket purchase agreement awarded August 21, 2023, through August 31, 2033. This single BPA is the vendor's anchor vehicle; Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 operates under a separate $250,000 BPA for the Iowa Wetland Management District (January 24, 2022, through January 23, 2027) and has issued 14 recent task orders totaling $251 thousand. The National Park Service holds a $3 million single-award BPA for Seed Increase for the National Park Service Midwest program (September 16, 2022, through September 15, 2027), representing the second-largest vehicle by potential value. The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region accounts for nine awards totaling $1.8 million, split across consolidated spring and fall seed-buy purchase orders and definitive contracts ranging from $32,460 to $410,692. Representative recent work includes a $245,980 firm fixed-price purchase order from BLM Idaho for the FY26 Spring Consolidated Seed Buy (March 2, 2026), a $206,150 fall consolidated seed-buy contract (August 8, 2025), a $22,185 BPA call from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 for Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge (September 24, 2025), and a $39,170 call from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 for bulk wildflower seeds in Michigan (April 25, 2025). Millborn Seeds also operates under a separate BPA structure (140F0S23A0031) that has generated seven task orders totaling $373 thousand.

Award activity has been volatile. The vendor executed nine awards in both 2022 and 2023, dropped to three awards in 2024, and recovered to nine in 2025; the most recent award is dated March 2, 2026. Despite a combined potential value of $15.7 million across 67 awards, the vendor's obligated spend stands at $92.6 million—588% of potential value—indicating substantial invoicing against ceiling amounts, particularly on the large Fish and Wildlife Service regional BPAs. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, minimizing immediate recompete exposure. Federal grant work is minimal; Millborn Seeds received a single prime project grant from the USDA Kansas City Commodity Office (April 24, 2023, completion April 14, 2028) focused on climate-smart specialty grain and oilseed markets, and acts as a sub-recipient on one grant from Low Carbon Technologies, LLC providing customized seed mixes for regenerative agriculture practices.

Millborn Seeds' work sits almost exclusively within PSC Seeds And Nursery Stock (61 awards); primary NAICS codes reflect agricultural production, with All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming (19 awards), Floriculture Production (11 awards), and Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (10 awards) dominating the classification mix. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor in the federal space, with only one sub-award (the grant sub-recipient role noted above), making it a candidate for teaming as a specialized supplier rather than a systems integrator. The twelve federal agencies served and the geographic spread of delivery locations (across CONUS for seed procurement and distribution to BLM, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service sites) position Millborn Seeds as an embedded supplier to Interior Department land stewardship and conservation programs rather than a competitive threat to broader federal IT, engineering, or logistics contractors.