Aaris LLC

Aaris LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Hot Springs, South Dakota, delivers specialized prairie dog and plague management services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) exclusively as a prime contractor under Total Small Business and full-and-open set-asides. The company operates across NAICS 561710 (Exterminating and Pest Control Services) and applies approved insecticides (deltamethrin, fipronil), rodenticides (zinc phosphide oats), and ecological management treatments to control prairie dog populations, mitigate plague transmission, and preserve rangeland health and black-footed ferret habitat on Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Thunder Basin National Grassland, and related federal lands across South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska.

Aaris's customer footprint is narrowly concentrated: 100% of the 41 awards in the portfolio—41 prime delivery orders and blanket purchase agreement calls—fund USDA Forest Service Region 2 work, with combined potential value of $7 million. The company has established itself since 2013 in this specialized ecological niche and holds multiple single-award indefinite-delivery contracts with Forest Service Region 2. The largest vehicle is a $960,000 Total Small Business IDIQ awarded September 1, 2024, running through August 31, 2029, under which recent delivery orders include a $110,800.50 order for prairie dog treatment across Fall River, Fort Pierre, and Wall Ranger Districts (awarded September 28, 2026, completion February 28, 2027), a $90,000 order for prairie dog control and plague management on Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands (September 23, 2024), and a $42,620 order for prairie dog control in Wall, South Dakota (September 3, 2025). Aaris also places calls under a $1.5 million IDIQ awarded in January 2020 and maintains additional indefinite-delivery contracts valued at $960,000, $752,000, and $707,000 for comparable pest and plague management services through 2025 and 2029.

Activity has remained flat to declining—four awards in 2022, five in 2023, five in 2024, three in 2025, and two in 2026—with only two awards (combined potential value $166,000) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The portfolio reflects a single-customer, single-capability posture: all work routes through Forest Service Region 2, and no subcontract footprint exists. Work is performed in Wall and Fort Pierre, South Dakota; Douglas and Thunder Basin, Wyoming; and Halsey, Nebraska, with firm fixed-price pricing structure typical of specialized environmental services.