Custom Lawn Service, Inc.

Custom Lawn Service, Inc., headquartered in Bowie, Maryland, is a for-profit landscaping and grounds maintenance contractor that operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering comprehensive turf maintenance, tree care, irrigation repair, snow removal, and seasonal landscaping services to federal agencies across the National Capital Region on firm fixed-price delivery orders and blanket purchase agreement calls. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open; recent small-business set-aside designations appear on roughly 15–20% of awards, concentrated in indefinite delivery contracts and smaller task orders under Total Small Business clauses.

Custom Lawn Service serves a tightly concentrated customer base anchored in the National Capital Region. The top three funding agencies account for 78% of recent award volume and 79% of combined potential value: the Department of the Interior's National Park Service National Office (121 awards, $101.9 million combined potential value), the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service National Capital Region (158 awards, $55 million), and the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Service (77 awards, $39.3 million). This concentration reflects the vendor's core business—maintaining high-profile federal properties including the National Mall, Pentagon grounds, World War I Memorial, East Potomac Park, Piscataway Parks, and Eisenhower Memorial. The vendor also serves the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (National Arboretum), the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, and smaller task orders from the Department of Energy, Office of Personnel Management, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Missile Defense Agency, and U.S. Air Force.

Recent capability work illustrates the portfolio's scope: a $3.396 million definitive contract (September 2026) for turf repair in the National Capital Region under Executive Order 14398; a $2.985 million delivery order for World War I Memorial maintenance through March 2028 (awarded November 2022, total small business set-aside); an $8.188 million delivery order for Uptown Park turf maintenance through September 2027 (awarded June 2022); a $6.516 million delivery order for recreation fields turf maintenance through September 2027 (awarded June 2022); and a $731,000 delivery order for Piscataway Parks grounds maintenance through December 2026 (awarded June 2022). Smaller task orders cover specialized work: tree removal, irrigation system repairs, stormwater best management practice facility maintenance, riparian planting bed work, and emergency landscape repairs.

Custom Lawn Service holds two significant blanket purchase agreements issued June 1, 2025, both under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule: one designated Total Small Business with a $7.616 million ceiling through May 31, 2027 (NCR Campus Landscaping, exercising option year 1), and a second, full-and-open, with a $7.790 million ceiling through May 31, 2027 for landscaping services at multiple Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia locations. The vendor also holds a $5 million indefinite delivery contract with the National Park Service (World War I Memorial Maintenance, awarded November 2022, total small business set-aside, through March 17, 2028) and an $8.301 million indefinite delivery contract with the Washington Headquarters Service for Pentagon landscape maintenance (awarded December 2021, total small business set-aside, through December 2026). The top parent vehicle by task order count is the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, with 119 task orders and $66.6 million combined potential value.

Activity has remained steady over the past five years—32 awards in 2022, declining to 16 in 2024, then recovering to 20 in 2025 and 28 in 2026—indicating modest volatility but sustained engagement across the customer base. Awards with ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months total 32 with a combined potential value of $32.2 million, representing recompete risk for the vendor and opportunity for competitors on National Park Service, GSA Regional, and Washington Headquarters Service vehicles.

On SCI-reportable federal service contracts (contracts above the $150,000 threshold), Custom Lawn Service reported $15.1 million in invoiced revenue across fiscal years 2022–2025: $3.1 million in FY2022 (32.1 FTEs), no reportable invoicing in FY2023, $5.6 million in FY2024 (35.6 FTEs), and $6.4 million in FY2025 (40.8 FTEs). These figures capture only service contracts above the reporting floor and exclude goods, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue; they understate the vendor's total federal and enterprise revenue. Government-paid rates on SCI-reportable prime work ranged from a 10th percentile of $16.03/hr (ground maintenance labor) to a median of $64.15/hr and a 90th percentile of $113.92/hr. GSA Schedule labor categories span ground maintenance laborers ($48.36/hr) through skid loader operators ($127.67/hr), with no security-cleared positions. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor delivered 100% of hours with its own workforce; subcontractor hours averaged 0%, indicating a build-own-delivery model rather than a subcontracting-dependent posture.

Custom Lawn Service operates exclusively as a prime contractor on federal work. Sub-award activity is minimal: a single named sub engagement (Six Mile, LLC, Pentagon Memorial preventative and corrective maintenance, August 2024) and one sub record (CFM Services, FBI WFO bridge contract, April 2025). The vendor brings no significant subcontractor supply base to teaming arrangements; it delivers landscaping services through direct labor and small equipment rosters rather than through a network of specialized subs.

The vendor's federal service footprint since 2001 spans 539 total awards (537 prime, 2 sub) with a combined potential value of $257.9 million and combined obligated dollars of $115.5 million (45% of potential value), reflecting firm fixed-price pricing with partial spend on many task orders. The portfolio is dominated by landscaping services work (445 awards under NAICS 561730 Landscaping Services, 451 awards under PSC Housekeeping–Landscaping/Groundskeeping), with minor exposure to facilities support, snow removal, and landscape architectural consulting. The company was founded in 1963 and has held federal contracting status since at least 2001.

Landscape installation and maintenance, irrigation installation and maintenance