Clearwater Forest Analytics, LLC

Clearwater Forest Analytics, LLC, a small business based in Rapid City, South Dakota, provides Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) field data collection, forest resource assessment, and specialized forestry services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor across multiple research stations and regional offices, operating entirely on full-and-open (non-set-aside) BPAs and purchase orders despite holding small business status.

Clearwater Forest Analytics operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with a concentrated customer footprint entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The top five customer segments account for 92% of recent awards by count, dominated by the Forest Service Research Service Northern Research Station (10 awards, $8.7 million combined potential value), which anchors the vendor's portfolio. However, potential value is heavily concentrated in a single $50 million multiple-award BPA from the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions for Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) activities, awarded May 5, 2025, with performance extending through March 2033. The Northern Research Station also holds a $7.5 million single-award BPA awarded July 9, 2025, for nationwide FIA data collection through December 2029. The Rocky Mountain Research Station, Pacific Northwest Research Station, R2 Rocky Mountain Region, and Forest Products Laboratory round out the customer set with smaller definitive contracts and BPA calls.

Clearwater Forest Analytics' core capability centers on FIA field operations: locating and monumenting vegetation plots, conducting tree and understory inventory, collecting tree cores and soil assessments, photographing plot locations, and creating databases to support the Forest Service's long-term forest monitoring mission across 24 states and multiple regions. Representative work includes a $181,519 BPA call for FIA data collection in Rhode Island and Massachusetts (awarded July 18, 2025, completion March 31, 2027), a $160,679 call for FIA data collection in the New Jersey Trenton area (awarded April 1, 2026, completion March 31, 2028), and a $213,480 small business set-aside definitive contract for Wyoming FIA plots (awarded June 1, 2022, completion July 31, 2024). The vendor also executes common stand exam timber inventory and timber marking work under Forest Service regional offices, including a $74,250 contract for the Mystic Ranger District Black Hills National Forest (awarded June 1, 2023, completion December 31, 2024) and a $128,342.50 timber marking services contract for Black Hills (awarded January 12, 2023, completion April 14, 2023).

Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to a peak of eight awards in 2023, with a recent taper to three awards in 2026 year-to-date. Six awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $875 thousand and face recompete. The vendor's primary BPA vehicles—the $7.5 million Northern Research Station FIA agreement and the $50 million LMIR agreement—each support multiple task orders. Clearwater operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data, and competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements despite small business eligibility; only four of twenty-four awards carry small business set-aside designations.