Brennan Manns

Brennan Manns, doing business as The Arborist, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business sole proprietorship that delivers arboricultural services—tree pruning, removal, hazard mitigation, and stump grinding—to federal land-management agencies as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. The Arborist competes predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides and total small business set-asides across three primary federal customers: the National Cemetery Administration (NCA), the National Park Service (NPS), and the U.S. Forest Service. The vendor is based in Festus, Missouri, and specializes in NAICS 561730 (Landscaping Services) and PSC codes covering housekeeping-landscaping and natural resources conservation work.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on specialized arboricultural field services performed at federal properties. Representative work includes a $1.75 million single-award BPA with the National Cemetery Administration (awarded August 1, 2024, through July 31, 2029) for tree pruning and maintenance at national cemeteries in Oregon and California, under which individual task orders have ranged from $1,260 to $136,644; a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA with the USDA Forest Service (awarded July 8, 2026, through March 6, 2033) covering professional services, natural resources restoration, project management, and land management work across the United States; a $49.5 million National Fuels Reduction BPA with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (awarded September 25, 2026, through March 31, 2029); and direct purchase orders from the National Park Service for hazard tree removal at monuments and battlefields, including a $144 thousand contract for storm damage cleanup at Fort Donelson National Battlefield (August 2025) and a $144 thousand contract for hazardous tree removal along the tour route at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park (August 2025).

Customer concentration is sharply bimodal. By award count, the National Cemetery Administration accounts for 20 of 27 operational task orders and BPA calls (87% coverage), valued at $2.3 million combined potential value. By potential value, however, two large BPAs dominate the footprint: the Forest Service LMIR BPA ($50 million) and the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 Fuels Reduction BPA ($49.5 million) together represent 98% of total potential value ($102.7 million across all 31 awards). The NCA, despite high award volume, contributes only 2% of potential value. This concentration reflects a recent inflection toward federal land-management vehicles; the LMIR and Fuels Reduction BPAs were both awarded within the past three months (July and September 2026).

Activity trajectory shows acceleration into large-vehicle awards. The vendor recorded eight awards in 2024, fifteen in 2025, and eight in 2026 year-to-date; however, 2024 and 2025 activity was dominated by small NCA task orders (ranging $1,260 to $136,644), while 2026 awards shifted toward high-ceiling BPA vehicles. Five awards totaling $319 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure primarily within the NCA BPA task-order portfolio. The only significant near-term recompete exposure is the $1.75 million NCA BPA itself, which expires July 31, 2029 and is within a standard recompete window.

The Arborist has not yet demonstrated invoiced revenue at scale against the two new mega-vehicles ($99.5 million combined ceiling); combined dollars obligated across all thirty-one awards total $1.5 million (approximately 1% of potential value), reflecting recent award dates and early-stage task-order activity. The vendor operates with no subcontractor dependencies, performing all work directly. The three-year trend shows capacity-building from small-project execution (NCA cemetery maintenance in the $2 thousand to $136 thousand range) to prime positioning on landscape-scale federal conservation and fuels-reduction programs where the vendor's SDVOSB and veteran designations support set-aside eligibility across DOI, USDA, and VA customers.