Baldwin Forestry, LLC

Baldwin Forestry, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Cuthbert, Georgia, operates as a forestry contractor providing heavy equipment, water handling services, fuels reduction, reforestation, habitat restoration, and wildland fire response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service across multiple regions, exclusively as a prime contractor on delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The sole proprietorship competes predominantly under total small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Baldwin Forestry's customer concentration is extreme and regionally bounded. The Forest Service dominates the vendor's business: 96% of awards flow to five Forest Service entities, led overwhelmingly by Region 8 (Southern Region) with 34 awards worth $2.8 million in combined potential value, followed by the National Interagency Fire Center (Fire and Aviation Management) with 7 awards worth $1.3 million. The two rankings align closely—Southern Region leads both volume and dollar concentration. The remaining Forest Service customers—Region 5 (Pacific Southwest), Region 3 (Southwestern), and the agency proper—account for the last 13 awards and $501 thousand combined.

Baldwin Forestry's capability portfolio centers on equipment provisioning and field forestry labor for incident response and land stewardship. The vendor holds five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs) with ceiling values of $250 thousand each issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and the Forest Service. Two IDCs, awarded February 6, 2026, designate Baldwin Forestry to supply heavy equipment (dozers, excavators, tractor plows, support vehicles) and water handling services and personnel for Regions 3 and 8 through May 2028 and May 2030, respectively. An earlier May 5, 2023 IDC with the Fire Center covers heavy equipment for Regions 3 and 8; a May 31, 2022 IDC covers water handling for Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9; and a May 5, 2025 IDC from the Forest Service itself covers water handling for Regions 3 and 8. Against these vehicles, Baldwin Forestry has generated 18 task orders (combined potential value $1 million) under IDC 1202SB22T7191, 13 task orders ($782 thousand) under IDC 1202SB23T7205, and 8 task orders ($210 thousand) under IDC 1243N921T7002. Representative recent work includes a $241 thousand delivery order from Forest Service Region 8 awarded April 22, 2026 for forestry management and wildland fire response in Tallahassee, Florida; a $72 thousand Region 8 order on April 8, 2026 for forestry services in Asheville, North Carolina; and a $303 thousand non-set-aside delivery order from Region 8 on March 2, 2025 covering comprehensive forestry management, equipment services, and emergency incident response across multiple regions.

Activity has contracted in recent years. The vendor received 14 awards in 2022 and 15 in 2023, declining to 6 in 2024 and 3 in 2025, with 8 awards through early June 2026. Combined potential value across all 56 awards in the portfolio is $4.7 million, with $2.3 million obligated (48% realization rate). All 56 awards are prime contracts; the vendor carries no subcontract footprint. Baldwin Forestry's awards span NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC codes aligned with forest-range fire suppression and presuppression, with 55 of 56 awards falling under the latter classification. Place of performance across the award history concentrates in Southern Region states (Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia, Texas) and specific Forest Service locations in the Pacific Southwest and Southwestern regions (California, Oregon, New Mexico), reflecting the geographic scope of the five IDCs the vendor holds.