Russell Byrd

Russell Byrd, operating as Byrd Trucking, a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Willis, Texas, provides road maintenance, construction, and forest infrastructure services as a prime contractor exclusively to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Southern Region. All 144 recent awards are prime (100%), nearly all under Total Small Business set-asides, with the vendor competing predominantly in full-and-open designated vehicles rather than on dedicated 8(a) or HUBZone IDIQs.

Byrd Trucking's capability portfolio centers on concrete infrastructure work: road grading, aggregate base placement, chip seal operations, ditch cleaning, culvert installation and replacement, erosion control, parking lot construction, and tree and stump removal on national forests and grasslands. Representative work includes a $238,389 delivery order issued March 10, 2026, by the Forest Service Southern Region for aggregate base application and chip seal on forest roads at Decatur, Texas; a $187,269 delivery order from April 21, 2025, for soil stabilization and road maintenance on Angelina National Forest; and a $188,659.50 delivery order from April 14, 2025, for soil stabilization and road maintenance on Sabine National Forest. Smaller orders range from $15,000 for culvert installation and grassland road maintenance to $81,700 for tree and stump removal with erosion control.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region accounts for 99% of all awards (135 awards, $17.4 million combined potential value), with the remaining seven awards ($543 thousand) split among other Forest Service entities. Byrd Trucking operates across Texas and subordinate national forests and grasslands in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana under the Southern Region's purview, with place of performance typically in Lufkin, Zavalla, Hemphill, or Decatur, Texas.

The vendor holds positions on five named indefinite-delivery contracts: Indefinite Delivery Contract AG447UC150054 (45 task orders, $1.2 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract 127DF518D0002 (38 task orders, $1.9 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract 12445121D0001 (20 task orders, $1.4 million), the USFS Texas Culvert Replacement 2017-2020 vehicle (14 task orders, $1.5 million), and Indefinite Delivery Contract 12445125D0008 (8 task orders, $980 thousand). Most recently, the Forest Service awarded a multiple-award $1.5 million IDIQ effective January 1, 2025, with a Total Small Business set-aside designation and a completion date of September 30, 2026, for pre-priced delivery orders covering road maintenance, construction, culvert installation, and related services on Angelina, Sabine, and Davy Crockett National Forests; six task orders totaling $641 thousand had been issued as of May 20, 2026.

Activity declined from ten awards in 2022 to three in 2024, then recovered modestly to six awards in 2025 and five in 2026 to date. Six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $520 thousand, representing modest recompete exposure. The vendor has no subcontract footprint; all work is performed as prime. Combined potential value across all awards totals $17.9 million, with $7.4 million (41%) obligated to date, reflecting the typical lag between delivery order ceiling and invoiced performance in Forest Service infrastructure work.