Crown Tree Service LLC

Crown Tree Service LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Nevada City, California, provides wildland fire suppression equipment, crews, and tree service operations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a 100% prime contractor under total small business set-aside vehicles. The vendor operates chipper equipment and field personnel for fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed forestry work across Forest Service Regions 5 and 6 in California and the Pacific Northwest, with work performed on a firm fixed-price basis structured around 16-hour daily shift rates.

Crown Tree Service LLC's customer footprint is wholly concentrated within the USDA Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center, which together account for all ten prime awards tracked in recent activity. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors the dollars — four IDC awards carrying $1.5 million in combined potential value — while Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) and subordinate regions place smaller delivery orders against those IDCs. The vendor holds four separate Indefinite Delivery Contracts, all under total small business set-aside designation: a $500,000 multiple-award IDC awarded February 6, 2026, with ultimate completion May 5, 2030; a second $500,000 multiple-award IDC also awarded February 6, 2026, completing May 28, 2029; a $250,000 multiple-award IDC awarded May 5, 2025, extending through May 5, 2030; and a $250,000 multiple-award IDC awarded May 28, 2024, running through May 28, 2029. All four contracts operate under the Virtual Incident Procurement system for establishing Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements. Representative delivery orders include a $75,189 total small business set-aside order from Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) in July 2026 for tree service work in Flagstaff, Arizona; a $85,796 delivery order from Region 5 in September 2024; and a $74,186 Region 5 delivery order also in September 2024. Through January 2025, the vendor had executed five delivery orders totaling approximately $264,714 against the May 28, 2024 IDC, exceeding the base ceiling through authorized task orders.

Activity volumes remain modest — five awards in 2024, two in 2025, and three in 2026 — with combined obligated dollars of $340 thousand representing 18% of the $1.8 million combined potential value across all awards. All work is concentrated in NAICS 335905 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. The vendor does not hold a position on government-wide acquisition contracts or parent vehicles outside the Forest Service VIPR system, and operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no recorded subcontract work. Crown Tree Service LLC competes entirely under small business set-aside vehicles, with all IDC and most delivery order awards designated total small business set-aside and all performance scoped to wildland fire operations and incident support for federal land management.