Pine Island Nursery, Inc.

Pine Island Nursery, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Miami, Florida, provides specialized tree grafting and propagation services to the federal government as a prime contractor on small-dollar purchase orders, with no subcontract work in the source record. The vendor operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and holds woman-owned small business status; all five recent awards were competed full-and-open without set-aside designations despite the vendor's eligibility for woman-owned set-asides.

Pine Island Nursery's federal capability portfolio is narrowly focused on horticultural research support — specifically grafting and propagation of specialty fruit trees (avocado and cacao) for USDA Agricultural Research Service research programs. The vendor has delivered four grafting contracts to support the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station's avocado clonal collection regeneration project, including a $32,367.50 purchase order awarded May 17, 2024, for grafting 300 avocado varieties (900 plants total) onto Waldin rootstock; a $9,052 purchase order awarded August 15, 2023, for custom avocado grafting; and a $4,650 purchase order awarded July 25, 2023, for 300 avocado varieties grafted on Waldin. Most recently, the vendor received an $18,000 purchase order awarded September 3, 2026, for cacao consultant services and technical oversight at the SHRS, requiring a Master's degree in horticultural sciences and 10 or more years of cacao cultivation experience, with work running through September 2, 2027. Work is performed at Pine Island Nursery's facilities in Miami and Quail Heights, Florida.

Customer concentration is absolute: the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service accounts for 100% of awards and combined potential value (5 awards, $67 thousand). The vendor's recent activity shows four awards between 2020 and 2024, followed by a one-month gap in the source record and a single award in September 2026. One award (the $18,000 cacao contract) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represents the only near-term recompete exposure. The vendor does not sit on any parent vehicles or IDVs; all awards are direct purchase orders from USDA ARS Southeast Area. Primary NAICS assignment is 111421 (Nursery and Tree Production), with PSC work spanning tree-breeding research and nursery-stock procurement.