Benson Farms, Inc.

Benson Farms, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation headquartered in Moses Lake, Washington, is a native plant seed production and ecosystem restoration services provider operating as a prime contractor on 677 federal awards spanning 24 years, with no subcontract exposure. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements rather than set-aside categories, though roughly 40% of its recent task orders carry small-business set-asides; awards span NAICS codes 111998 (All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming — 326 awards), 115112 (Support Activities for Forestry — 178 awards), and related nursery and cultivation codes, with corresponding PSCs anchored to Natural Resources/Conservation seed collection, production, and nursery stock.

Benson Farms specializes in cultivating, propagating, harvesting, and delivering source-identified native grass, forb, shrub, and tree seeds tailored to specific ecoregions and federal agency specifications. Representative work includes a $2.08 million 24-month purchase order from the Bureau of Land Management's National Office (awarded September 2025) for Colorado Plateau and Southern Rockies native seed production across 32 species to support wildfire stabilization and invasive species control, a $1.73 million total small business set-aside from the Bureau of Reclamation (September 2024) for the Schaake Revegetation project involving site preparation, invasive species control, seeding, and habitat monitoring on the Yakima River in Washington, and a $756.5 thousand purchase order from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 (November 2021) for five customized native plant seed mixes supporting aerial seeding rehabilitation across 3,000 acres of the Sheldon-Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex in Oregon.

Customer concentration reflects heavy reliance on the Department of Interior's land management portfolio. The Bureau of Land Management National Office anchors 71% of the combined potential value across the top five customers, with 43 awards totaling $63.4 million; the USDA Forest Service Washington Office (which houses the acquisition function for the national LMIR BPA) accounts for $50.1 million across four awards. Below that, the Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest leads volume at 234 awards ($14.8 million), followed by BLM's Oregon-Washington region (112 awards, $8.1 million) and Idaho region (47 awards, $7.4 million). Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 and the National Park Service are secondary customers with smaller award counts and values. This concentration in Interior and Forest Service programs reflects Benson Farms' specialization in rangeland and forest restoration.

Benson Farms holds two anchor indefinite delivery vehicles: a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service (the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA, awarded March 2023 through March 2033) for integrated natural resources restoration, engineering, project management, and plant material production nationwide, and a $3 million single-award BPA with the National Park Service (awarded August 2022 through August 2027) for native seed increase services in the Southwest region. Multiple regional Forest Service blanket purchase agreements and BLM standing offers serve as parent vehicles for task orders; the highest-volume parent vehicle is BPA 12046W18A0004 (91 task orders, $5 million combined value), with additional regional IDCs supporting 57, 42, 42, and 41 task orders respectively.

Award volume has grown steadily from 17 awards in 2022 to 25 in 2024, though 2025 and 2026 show moderation (19 and 4 awards respectively, with 2026 data capturing only through mid-June). Twenty-three awards with ultimate completion dates within the next 24 months carry combined potential value of $2.7 million, representing moderate recompete exposure but not a cliff. Combined potential value across all 677 awards stands at $158.2 million, with $42.3 million obligated to date (27% draw-down rate), suggesting substantial optioning and multi-year performance periods typical of BPA call structures.

The vendor's footprint is exclusively regional and ecoregion-specific: work centers on native seed production for the Columbia Plateau, Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Southwest, Great Plains, and Sagebrush Steppe regions, with place-of-performance concentrated in Moses Lake and Ellensburg, Washington, supporting federal post-fire stabilization, habitat restoration, invasive species control, and vegetation management across western public lands.

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.