Aquatic Contracting LLC

Aquatic Contracting LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Portland, Oregon, delivers stream restoration, aquatic habitat improvement, and forest land management services to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company operates as a limited liability company registered in SAM.gov since 2003 and competes entirely in the small business set-aside space, with primary NAICS coding under Support Activities for Forestry (115310) and secondary codes spanning logging, road construction, and fisheries resource management.

Aquatic Contracting holds two significant BPA vehicles with the Forest Service: a $50 million single-award blanket purchase agreement running through March 2033 for nationwide land management integrated resources services, and a $2 million multiple-award BPA established September 2024 for stream restoration, tree tipping, wood placement, and log haul services across eleven national forests in Oregon and Washington (Siuslaw, Willamette, Umpqua, Rogue River-Siskiyou, Olympic, Gifford Pinchot, Deschutes, Ochoco, Umatilla, Malheur, and Wallowa-Whitman). The $50 million vehicle functions as a national contracting mechanism but has generated minimal call volume since award; the $2 million regional BPA carries active ordering. Representative work under these vehicles includes a $376,250 definitive contract for stream restoration on the Wind River in Carson, Washington (awarded April 2026, completion October 2028); a $235,634 BPA call for aquatic restoration and road stabilization in the Upper Wind River Watershed (awarded August 2022); and a $231,380 purchase order for the Wind River Watershed Restoration Phase 1 project in the Gifford-Pinchot National Forest (awarded August 2024). Recent smaller task orders include a $57,130 call for heavy equipment services supporting stream restoration tree tipping and wood placement, and a $49,960 call for the 2024 Beaver Dam Analog Project on Mt. Hood National Forest.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region accounts for 55 awards ($17.3 million combined potential value), or approximately 80% of total awards by count, while the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions holds three awards carrying $52.4 million in combined potential value — the bulk of which derives from the $50 million master BPA. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington and National Office together account for six awards totaling $182 thousand. Activity has been episodic: six awards in 2022, three in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2026, and two in 2027. Only $401 thousand in combined potential value reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The company's capability portfolio centers on in-stream work constrained to July 15 through September 15 windows seasonally, with emphasis on large woody debris placement for salmon habitat enhancement, beaver dam analog construction, stream channel restoration at road and culvert crossings, hazardous tree removal, and road stabilization to reduce sediment input to waterways across the Pacific Northwest region.

stream and wetlands restoration, channel reconstruction, natural resource construction. Excavation, log placement, dam removal, water diversion.