Buckley Group, LLC

Buckley Group, LLC, a HUBZone-certified small disadvantaged business based in Athens, Ohio, provides cadastral surveying and boundary delineation services to the Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor, holding two single-award indefinite delivery contracts worth $4.5 million combined. The firm competes entirely under total small business set-asides on its underlying IDVs, though individual delivery orders issued against them may carry no set-aside designation at the task order level.

Buckley Group's capability portfolio centers on professional boundary surveys, timber sale delineation, corner monumentation, and geospatial mapping to support federal land management operations. The firm's primary customer is the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Eastern Region (R9), which has issued 23 delivery orders against Buckley Group's $1.5 million indefinite delivery contract awarded July 28, 2021, for cadastral surveying across national forests in Ohio, West Virginia, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Illinois, and Indiana. Representative work includes a $153,856.94 delivery order (June 2026) for landline surveys at Mechanicsburg, Oregon Ridge, and Raccoon Creek; a $129,078.13 delivery order (July 2024) for cadastral survey work on the Athens Ranger District of the Wayne National Forest; and a $118,282.29 delivery order (January 2026) for boundary surveying at the Wayne National Forest Doanville Timber Sale area. More recently, Buckley Group was awarded a new $3.0 million single-award indefinite delivery contract (December 2025) by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Northeast Region to provide professional land surveying services for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program across the United States and its territories. The contract was competed under Architect-Engineer procedures and requires Buckley Group to maintain at least one Professional Land Surveyor licensed in each state where work is performed.

Customer concentration is heavy: the Forest Service R9 office accounts for 23 of 25 prime awards totaling $2.9 million (100% of awards covered by the top-customers ranking), with the NRCS Northeast Region holding the second-highest potential value at $3.0 million on a single IDV. A single sub-award to HDR Engineering Inc. for topo services on the Cuva Virginia Kendall Dam design order (December 2025) represents the firm's only subcontract footprint in the source data.

Activity has grown materially in 2026, with eight awards already captured in the first half of the year compared to three in 2024 and three in 2025, driven by increased delivery order volume against the Forest Service contract. Nine awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $643 thousand, representing modest recompete exposure given that most Forest Service delivery orders are substantially obligated before completion. The Forest Service IDV (12445521D0006) anchors the business, with 22 task orders under a $1.5 million ceiling; the new NRCS contract (140P6023D0002) opens a $3.0 million vehicle for national coverage but has not yet generated task orders.