The Department of the Interior National Park Service Southeast Region awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Tom Lodge, a small business forestry services provider based in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. The $147,005.99 contract is for "GRSM-FY18-HWA SERVICE" to suppress Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) populations and protect Eastern Hemlock trees within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. The work supports the National Park Service's land stewardship objectives and was set aside for total small business competition under NAICS code 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry). This contract is potentially part of larger Indefinite Delivery Vehicles (IDVs) the vendor holds with the USDA Forest Service to provide a range of vegetation management and forestry maintenance services across National Forests in Western North Carolina.