Indefinite Delivery Contract 127EAV26D0036

The R3 Fuels and Vegetation Management Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract represents a $50 million single-award vehicle established by the U.S. Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) to procure comprehensive fuels treatment, wildfire hazard reduction, and related vegetation management services. Awarded to Summitt Forests, Inc. on April 13, 2026, with a contract ceiling of $49,999,999.00 and an ultimate completion date of April 12, 2031, this small business set-aside contract provides the Forest Service with on-demand access to specialized forestry and natural resource management capabilities across the southwestern United States. The contract vehicle was sourced through a pre-solicitation opportunity posted on September 22, 2025, establishing the framework for task order issuance to support federal land management objectives in the region.

Under this indefinite delivery contract, Summitt Forests will deliver mechanical and manual vegetation treatments, hazardous fuels reduction operations, tree removal services, prescribed fire preparation work, ecosystem restoration activities, and related forestry services on National Forest System lands and other federally managed properties within Region 3. The contractor's service portfolio encompasses hand thinning and piling operations, mastication of dense vegetation, pinyon-juniper encroachment removal, invasive species grubbing, slash processing, and firebreak and fuel break construction—all critical components of the Forest Service's wildfire risk mitigation and forest health improvement programs. As a proven small business contractor with an extensive track record of federal forestry work, Summitt Forests brings established expertise in supporting the agency's landscape-scale management objectives while providing flexible, task-order-based service delivery that enables responsive implementation of treatment initiatives across the southwestern region.