Buena Environmental LLC

Buena Environmental LLC, a woman-owned small business (WOSB) and minority-owned small disadvantaged business (SDB) based in Heath, Ohio, provides wetland restoration, trail construction, facilities maintenance, and environmental remediation services to the Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor operating entirely under small-business set-asides. The company operates as a limited liability partnership and competes exclusively under Total Small Business set-aside designations across its federal portfolio.

Buena Environmental's capability footprint centers on construction and restoration work for public lands and natural resources. Representative work includes a $76,168 firm fixed price purchase order from USDA's National Resources Conservation Service awarded in August 2026 for wetland reserve easement restoration in Delaware County, Ohio, encompassing hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, floodplain permitting, tile searching, wetland excavation, and rip rap installation under Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements; a $26,825 BPA call from USDA Forest Service Region 9 for culvert installation along an ADA-compliant hiking trail awarded in November 2023; and a $10,031 task order for ripping and obliterating unauthorized off-highway vehicle routes in the Wayne National Forest awarded in February 2023. The company's NAICS profile skews toward Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (4 awards) and Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (2 awards), with PSC concentration in recreation facilities repair and highway/road restoration work.

Customer concentration is narrow and agency-aligned. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region) accounts for six awards and $1 million in combined potential value — essentially the entirety of the portfolio. The USDA National Resources Conservation Service Northeast Region placed one $76 thousand award, and the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation placed one $18 thousand order, but these are residual. Buena Environmental holds four standing BPAs with USDA Forest Service Region 9, all awarded in 2022–2023 with ceilings of $250,000 each: the Northeast Zone Trails BPA (running through March 2032), the Northeast Region 9 Roads BPA (March 2032), the Northeast Region 9 Facilities BPA (February 2032), and a second Northeast Region 9 Trails BPA (February 2032). These BPAs serve as the primary call vehicle for region-based construction and environmental work.

Activity has been sparse and episodic: one award in 2020, one in 2022, a spike to five in 2023, and one in 2026. Combined potential value across all eight awards sits at $1.1 million, with only $131 thousand obligated to date (12% of potential). One award — the August 2026 Delaware County wetland restoration order valued at $76 thousand — reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represents the vendor's recompete exposure in that window. Buena Environmental operates as a pure prime contractor with no sub-award footprint, and its federal customer base is geographically and programmatically concentrated in Northeastern national forests and grasslands restoration programs.

Specializing in technical field and data labor for MNA; groundwater/soil/sediment sampling; O&M of various remediation systems, site supervisory, site construction preparation and storm water excavation/installations.