Buck Em Up Tree Service LLC

Buck Em Up Tree Service LLC, a Native American-owned, woman-owned small disadvantaged business partnership based in Madras, Oregon, provides wildland fire suppression and tree removal services to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management as a prime contractor on total small business set-aside vehicles. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime across six recent awards (all prime, zero sub work) with a $1 million combined ceiling value and specializes in faller modules and individual fallers for incident-based fire suppression and vegetation control across western U.S. Forest Service regions.

Buck Em Up's customer footprint is concentrated within the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service fire management apparatus. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors the portfolio with four awards (100% of the vendor's combined potential value at $1 million), supplemented by isolated work from the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region ($5 thousand) and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region ($21.8 thousand). All four NIFC awards are multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, each carrying a $250 thousand ceiling and firm fixed-price structure. Three contracts are set to expire between June and August 2028; one earlier VIPR I-BPA was awarded June 1, 2023.

Recent activity traces back to a February 2023 pre-solicitation; the vendor has received six awards across four years (2 in 2023, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2025, 2 in 2026 most recently). Only $26 thousand of the $1 million combined potential value has been obligated to date, indicating that the VIPR I-BPAs function as on-call standing offers with task order drawdown tied to incident demand rather than committed spending. A June 2025 purchase order with the Forest Service Idaho Region for a $21.8 thousand faller module carries an October 2025 completion date; an October 2024 delivery order from the Pacific Northwest Region for $4.7 thousand tree removal services in Prineville, Oregon completed on October 5, 2024. The vendor's capability profile is narrowly framed around wildland fire labor and equipment — primary NAICS 333618 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression — with no expansion into adjacent federal service lines and no subcontractor relationships documented.