The Bureau of Land Management's Taos Field Office awarded a $138.6K firm fixed-price purchase order to Ponderosa Timberland, Inc., a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small business based in Medford, Oregon, for the Copper Hill Piling Project in Dixon, New Mexico. The contract, awarded on April 22, 2024, with completion targeted for April 30, 2025, is set aside for small businesses and calls for piling services across approximately 700 acres under NAICS code 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry - Fuels Management Services). Piling operations, commonly employed in forest management to arrange cut vegetation and woody debris, support BLM objectives including hazardous fuels reduction and ecosystem health restoration on public lands.
Ponderosa Timberland, Inc. is an SBA Certified 8(a) Program participant (certification expires October 25, 2026) with established expertise in comprehensive forestry and land management services for federal agencies. The company holds multiple significant indefinite delivery contracts with the Forest Service and BLM, including a $50M Blanket Purchase Agreement for Land Management Integrated Resources and a $40M IDC for Western Oregon silviculture services, positioning it well to execute specialized vegetation management and wildfire risk reduction activities. The contract was competed among small businesses and awarded based on a tradeoff evaluation of submitted quotes.