Brennan Manns

Brennan Manns, doing business as The Arborist, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) sole proprietorship based in Festus, Missouri, provides specialized arboricultural services—tree pruning, removal, hazard mitigation, and stump grinding—to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The vendor competes predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides, with 100% of recent awards reserved for set-aside categories (SDVOSB and Total Small Business).

The Arborist's customer base is concentrated in the National Cemetery Administration (NCA), which accounts for 17 awards (68% of award count) and $2.2 million in combined potential value, followed by the National Park Service across multiple regions (Southeast, Intermountain, and Midwest) with $732 thousand combined potential value. However, a single forestry-sector win reshapes the dollar picture: the USDA Forest Service awarded a $50 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement on July 8, 2026, for Land Management Integrated Resources work (NAICS 541620 Environmental Consulting Services, PSC R408 Support-Professional Natural Resources), with a performance period through March 2033. That award alone represents 94% of the vendor's combined potential value of $52.9 million, though only 2% of that amount ($1.2 million) has been obligated to date.

Concrete representative work includes a $1.75 million single-award NCA BPA (awarded August 1, 2024, running through July 31, 2029) under which The Arborist has issued 13 task orders totaling $301 thousand, ranging from $1,260 to $136,644 for tree pruning, maintenance, hazard removal, and dead-wood work at national cemeteries in Oregon and California. On the National Park Service side, The Arborist secured a $337,500 purchase order from the Intermountain Region for tree removal at Chica (ultimate completion February 14, 2026), a $144,000 award from the Southeast Region for storm damage cleanup at Fort Donelson National Battlefield (August 2025), and an $82,000 hazard-tree mitigation contract for Arizona monuments (Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot, August 2024). The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $12,800 contract for hazardous tree removal at Barren River Lake in Kentucky (April 2024). Activity has grown year over year—eight awards in 2024 to fifteen in 2025—with six awards totaling $260 thousand in combined potential value reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure in that window.

The vendor holds no parent contract vehicles other than the two BPAs named above (the NCA BPA and the newly awarded USDA Forest Service LMIR BPA). Work is performed primarily at federal property locations—national cemeteries, national parks, monuments, and Corps of Engineers recreational areas—with administrative and operational presence headquartered in Festus. The Arborist operates as a sole proprietor with no subcontract footprint; all awards are prime contracts. NAICS 561730 (Landscaping Services) covers 23 of 25 awards, with the remainder coded to Support Activities for Forestry, reflecting the vendor's core service-delivery profile in grounds maintenance and arboricultural specialization for federal real estate.