Wedgworth's Inc.

Wedgworth's Inc., doing business as Wedgworths Inc., manufactures and supplies specialized dry bulk fertilizer formulations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under Total Small Business Set-Aside and full-and-open purchase orders. The Belle Glade, Florida-based for-profit small business holds no federal contract vehicles, parent IDIQs, or GWACs and operates solely as a prime recipient on federal contracts and grants — no subcontract footprint.

Wedgworth's core capability is precision fertilizer blending for agricultural research. The company produces custom nutrient formulations — typically 12-2-14, 12-3-14, and 12-3-15 compositions with 50% slow-release nitrogen and potassium derived from polymer-coated urea and poly-coated muriate of potash — tailored to support USDA-ARS citrus greening and tree crop research activities. Representative recent work includes a $23,334 Total Small Business purchase order awarded August 6, 2026 (completing September 30, 2026) for 26 tons of dry bulk fertilizer to Fort Pierce, Florida; a $20,908 Total Small Business award from February 5, 2026 for 28 tons of 12-3-14 formulation for the USDA-ARS research farm in Fort Pierce; and a $15,345 Total Small Business award from March 3, 2026 for 20 tons of specialized 12-3-14 blend to the Whitmore Farm in Groveland, Florida. These awards result from competitive RFQ processes using lowest-price, technically acceptable evaluation criteria.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency: 15 of 16 awards (100% of potential value at $280 thousand) flow from the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery (USDA-ARS FRIID), all for fertilizer delivery to Fort Pierce or Belle Glade, Florida research facilities. The sole outlier is a $6 million Project Grant under the Fertilizer Product Expansion Program (CFDA 10.383) awarded January 10, 2025 by USDA's Rural Business Cooperative Services, intended to expand Wedgworth's production infrastructure for nitrogen, phosphate, and potash fertilizer beyond its current federal research focus.

Award velocity has remained flat — two to three awards per year across 2022–2026 — with only one award (the $6 million grant) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The discrepancy between $280 thousand in combined potential contract value and $6.3 million in combined obligated dollars reflects the $6 million grant obligation; the 15 purchase orders for research fertilizer cluster at $11,000–$23,000 per order. Wedgworth's relationship with USDA-ARS Southeast Area spans multiple years, with the source noting the company as the "only" or "established key supplier" for specialized fertilizer to federal research institutions, competing on technical precision and lowest price rather than on vehicle access, scale, or teaming depth.