Benson Farms, Inc.

Benson Farms, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation based in Moses Lake, Washington, delivers native plant seed production, ecosystem restoration, and land management services to federal land management agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, with 683 federal awards spanning over two decades and no subcontracting footprint.

Benson Farms operates as a specialized native seed producer and ecosystem restoration services provider, cultivating, propagating, harvesting, and delivering source-identified native grass, forb, shrub, and tree seeds tailored to specific ecoregions and federal specifications. The company's concrete capability portfolio centers on native seed increase, seed production for post-fire stabilization and habitat restoration, revegetation and invasive species control, site preparation and planting, and specialized seed collection and grow-out services for federal public lands management. Representative work includes a $3.76 million definitive contract with the Office of Wildland Fire Service (September 2026) for native seed production across Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service regions; a $2.08 million purchase order from Bureau of Land Management (September 2025) for source-identified native plant seeds meeting AOSCA certification standards for 32 species from the Colorado Plateau and Southern Rockies regions; and a $1.73 million total-small-business set-aside purchase order from the Bureau of Reclamation (September 2024) for the Schaake Revegetation project involving site preparation, invasive species control, seeding, tree and shrub planting, and restoration monitoring on the Yakima River.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward interior and public-lands agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 71% of awards by count, led by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) with 237 awards and $15.2 million combined potential value, followed by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington with 112 awards and $8.1 million. By potential value, however, the concentration shifts dramatically: the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management National Office anchors 91% of combined potential value across all top customers with 43 awards totaling $63.4 million, reflecting a portfolio of large seed production delivery orders ($992 thousand, $1.27 million, $1.73 million) that dwarf the per-award magnitudes of the high-volume regional offices. Benson Farms also serves Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (45 awards, $4.3 million), the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (49 awards, $11.6 million), and the National Park Service, demonstrating deep penetration across Interior's landscape restoration mission.

Benson Farms holds two anchor indefinite delivery vehicles: a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service for land management integrated resources services (March 2023 through March 2033, covering natural resources restoration, engineering, project management, and plant material production nationwide), and a $3 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the National Park Service for native seed increase services in the Southwest region (August 2022 through August 2027). The bulk of task-order work flows through regional and national Forest Service BPA vehicles and numerous Bureau of Land Management consolidated seed buy solicitations. The top parent vehicle, BPA 12046W18A0004, carries 91 task orders valued at $5 million combined; subsidiary USDA and Interior IDV vehicles each carry 41–57 task orders in the $800 thousand to $1.5 million range.

Activity has remained consistent year over year at 17–25 awards annually over the past five fiscal years (2022–2026), with 683 total awards and $162.9 million combined potential value. Twenty-six awards (combined potential value $5.4 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure. SCI-reportable invoiced activity is minimal ($322 thousand in FY2025 across 0.4 FTEs) because Benson Farms' federal footprint is dominated by goods procurement (seed, plant materials) and small task orders that fall below or outside SCI's $150,000 reporting threshold; SCI figures do not reflect the company's true federal services scale.

Award posture splits between full-and-open competition and small-business set-asides. Approximately 48% of awards carry total-small-business or partial-small-business set-aside designations; the remainder are competed full-and-open or under non-set-aside frameworks. Benson Farms operates 100% as a prime contractor — no subcontracting relationships appear in the source data — and builds its own delivery teams across seed production and restoration fields. NAICS concentration is concentrated in 111998 (All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming, 328 awards) and 541110 (Support Activities for Forestry, 181 awards), with secondary concentration in soil preparation and forest nurseries. PSC concentration aligns: Natural Resources/Conservation Seed Collection/Production (235 awards) and Seeds and Nursery Stock (197 awards) account for the vast majority of the footprint, with smaller shares in forest/range fire rehabilitation and seedling production.

The company has served federal land management agencies continuously since 2003, establishing itself as the dominant single-source vendor for native seed production across western U.S. ecoregions — Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Southwest, Sagebrush Steppe, Chihuahuan Desert, and Pacific Northwest. Benson Farms competes predominantly under full-and-open and small-business set-aside vehicles rather than large GWACs or civilian agency IDIQs; its prime footprint is exclusively Interior and Agriculture land-stewardship agencies. The lack of subcontracting, combined with concentrated geography and customer set, makes Benson Farms a specialized feeder for land management restoration work rather than a platform prime or defense contractor.

We specialize in the production of native grasses and forbs for the pacific northwest. Located in the Columbia Basin of Washington state. We have excellent soils, irrigation and climate for the production of numerous species.