Ouachita and Ozark NF Timber Sales 2016-2021

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8–Southern Region established a Master IDIQ for timber sale preparation and professional forestry services on the Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Forests, with ordering closed as of December 31, 2018. The vehicle is no longer active for new task orders; all 104 awards under it were issued between January 2017 and September 2021, with the combined potential value of $5 million fully obligated.

Activity peaked in 2017 with 24 orders and again in 2021 with 29 orders, reflecting workload concentrated in specific fiscal years rather than sustained linear demand. The 2020 and 2021 surge suggests the Forest Service accelerated timber-sale prep work in the final window before the ordering deadline passed. No orders have been issued since September 2021.

Work spans timber-marking services (cut-tree marking, leave-tree marking, thinning treatments), stand cruising and sampling, and timber-sale layout and boundary demarcation across multiple ranger districts in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Task orders are firm-fixed-price, typically ranging from roughly $4,900 to $128,800 per order, with most orders in the $30,000 to $80,000 band. Work is geographically dispersed across multiple ranger districts—Boston Mountain, Big Piney, Pleasant Hill, Sylamore, and St. Francis in Arkansas; and Ouachita and other units in Oklahoma.

Three firms captured 96 percent of all awarded orders: Parker Land & Timber Co Inc. won 41 orders ($2 million), Joel Fyock won 32 orders ($1.6 million), and Silv Resource Services LLC won 23 orders ($1 million). The remaining 8 orders went to four smaller contractors. No single-award concentration or small-business set-aside restriction governed the vehicle—94 percent of orders were unrestricted competitive, with 6 percent designated for small business. This vehicle is spent and closed to new pursuit.

The Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Forests have awarded a Master IDIQ for timber sale prep and other related professional forestry services.