Caplis Forestry, L.L.C.

Caplis Forestry, L.L.C., a small business sole proprietorship based in Bossier City, Louisiana, provides timber marking, timber sale preparation, tree cruising, and forest inventory services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor entirely on delivery orders and task orders under three active Indefinite Delivery Contracts and one Blanket Purchase Agreement. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements; recent task orders carry either no set-aside designation or total small business set-aside, and the vendor holds no exclusive 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other SBA category certification apparent in the source.

Caplis Forestry operates exclusively within the Forest Service ecosystem—specifically Region 8 (Southern Region)—with 54 of 62 prime awards flowing from that single office. The company's core capability is field forestry work: timber marking and tree flagging on acreage slated for harvest, sample tree cruising to assess timber volume and species composition, boundary identification and paint refresh marking, and inventory and analysis support for sale preparation across Kisatchie National Forest and other Louisiana national forests. Representative delivery orders include a $38,430 firm fixed-price contract for timber marking on the Calcasieu Ranger District (September 2024, now deobligated), a $66,369 order for the Boggy Bayou Project combining tree marking, cruising, and sale prep in Rapides Parish (March 2023), a $52,378 C-58 Timber Marking contract (September 2024), and multiple smaller orders in the $14,000 to $36,000 range for compartment-specific marking and cruising across 2021 to 2026.

Three IDICs and one BPA anchor the prime vehicle portfolio. Caplis Forestry holds a $5 million Indefinite Delivery Contract for Kisatchie National Forest timber sale preparation (October 2024 through September 2029, total small business set-aside, multiple-award MATOC); a $7.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement for recurring forest inventory and analysis services (June 2023 through May 2028, no set-aside); and an expiring $10 million IDC for timber sale preparation (January 2022 through December 2026, total small business set-aside, MATOC). The largest parent vehicle by task-order volume is IDC 127K1120D0002, under which 29 task orders totaling $926 thousand have been issued. The vendor's historical vehicle "Kisatchie NF Timber Sale Preparation 2017-2019" generated 17 task orders worth $569 thousand.

Activity peaked in 2022 with 11 awards and has declined to three awards in 2026 (as of the source date in July 2026). Across all 62 prime awards tracked in the source, combined potential value stands at $36.2 million, with only $1.7 million (5%) obligated—characteristic of delivery-order vehicles where ceiling values are set but tasks are issued incrementally. Five awards carrying $90 thousand in combined potential value will reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. The vendor has no subcontract footprint in the source data; Caplis Forestry operates as a direct prime only, performing all work in-house without identified major subs. Place of performance spans multiple Louisiana Ranger Districts and national forests (Kisatchie, Calcasieu, Caney, Catahoula, and others), with occasional work in Arkansas (Hot Springs National Park, Glenwood), all within the Forest Service Southern Region's operational area.

Forestry, timber sale prep and layout