SK Natural Farms LLC

SK Natural Farms LLC is a woman-owned small business located in Waianae, Hawaii, specializing in providing live pigs for medical research, testing, and training activities. Registered in SAM.gov since October 2017, the company is classified as a sole proprietorship with multiple business designations including woman-owned, Asian-Pacific American owned, and a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The company has established itself as a key supplier of live animal models to federal agencies, particularly in the medical and research sectors.

SK Natural Farms LLC has consistently provided live pigs to federal agencies, primarily the Defense Health Agency and the Department of the Army Medical Command. Their federal contract awards have been firm fixed-price delivery orders ranging from $10,000 to $34,260, focused on supplying live pigs for biomedical research, testing, and medical training activities at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii. These contracts have been consistently awarded without set-aside designations, indicating the company's competitive positioning in the market. The contracts typically cover fiscal year periods and support various medical research and training requirements of military medical facilities.

The company has received one notable federal grant award from the Rural Business Cooperative Services, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This grant, awarded on August 27, 2020, was for Value-Added Agricultural Product Market Development Grants, suggesting the company's interest in expanding or developing agricultural product markets beyond their core business of providing live pigs for research.

SK Natural Farms LLC holds an Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Defense Health Agency, with a current ceiling value of $186,450 and an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2027. This single-award contract allows the agency to order live pigs on an as-needed basis, with the procurement falling under the NAICS code 112210 for Hog and Pig Farming. The government's statutory authority for this sole source award is FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), which permits contracts when there is only one responsible source. The contract supports ongoing medical research, testing, and training activities, demonstrating the company's specialized and critical role in providing live animal models for federal medical research purposes.