Cutting Edge Forestry, Inc.

Cutting Edge Forestry, Inc., doing business as Cutting Edge Forestry Inc., operates as a small business prime contractor delivering manual hazardous fuels reduction, forest thinning, vegetation management, and ecological restoration services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Fish and Wildlife Service across western federal lands. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, though a material share of its recent delivery orders carry no set-aside designation. Headquartered in Phoenix, Oregon, Cutting Edge Forestry is classified under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and has maintained federal registration since 2004.

The vendor's customer base concentrates heavily on federal land management agencies. The top five funding organizations account for 44% of recent awards by count and 72% of combined potential value. The Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management National Office anchors the portfolio at $538.6 million in combined potential value across 22 awards, primarily through parent indefinite delivery and blanket purchase agreement vehicles. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service regions—Pacific Northwest (Region 6, $190.7 million across 126 awards), Pacific Southwest (Region 5, $122 million across 78 awards), Rocky Mountain (Region 2, $72.3 million across 73 awards), and Northern (Region 1, $70.4 million across 25 awards)—provide the next largest customer concentrations. Work is performed nationwide across western states with particular intensity in Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado, Utah, and Alaska, reflecting the geographic distribution of federal forest and grassland holdings.

Cutting Edge Forestry holds a portfolio of nine major indefinite delivery vehicles and blanket purchase agreements anchoring task order work through 2032. The largest is the Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) $100 million multiple-award IDIQ for vegetation treatment services awarded March 13, 2024, followed by five stewardship BPAs each valued at $50 million—covering the Northern Rockies, Intermountain, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, and Rocky Mountain regions—with performance periods extending to 2032. The Fish and Wildlife Service National Hazardous Fuels Reduction BPA, valued at $49.5 million and running through March 2029, procures services nationwide and in Guam. The Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) National BPA carries a $50 million ceiling through March 2033. Regionally, the vendor holds a single-award $18.75 million R1/R4 Timber Stand Improvement IDIQ through September 2026 and a $20 million R5 Manual Fuels Reduction IDIQ through July 2027. Task order activity concentrates on these vehicles: the largest parent vehicles by task order count include Indefinite Delivery Contract 140L0620D0020 (30 orders, $2.3 million combined value), the Blanket Purchase Agreement AG04GGB099319 (24 orders, $1.4 million), Forest Service Region 2 Vegetation Management (21 orders, $2.3 million), and Indefinite Delivery Contract INL15PC00040 (21 orders, $987 thousand).

Representative capability work spans manual fuels reduction, forest thinning, and ecological restoration across all Forest Service regions and BLM fields. Recent delivery orders include a $78.3 thousand thinning and hand piling project at Morgan Creek Timber Stand Improvement near Challis, Idaho under a Region 4 IDIQ (July 2026); a $123.9 thousand hazardous fuels reduction order at Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Idaho (July 2026); a $472.3 thousand FY26 north unit fuels reduction order in Central Oregon (May 2026); a $1.79 million Traitors River pre-commercial thinning order in Alaska (August 2024); a $1.37 million Magone hand thinning project in Oregon under the Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA (June 2023); and a $1.99 million Methow Valley Stewardship Contract in Washington (June 2024). Work includes hand tree removal, mechanical vegetation treatment, pre-commercial thinning of young growth stands, lop-and-scatter operations, hand piling and covering of slash, invasive species removal including tamarisk and cheatgrass treatment, and riparian conservation area management. The vendor self-performs all reported work with no identified subcontractor engagement.

Activity trajectory shows substantial decline. The vendor received 67 awards in 2022, 44 in 2023, 27 in 2024, 2 in 2025, and 6 awards year-to-date in 2026 (as of July 15, 2026). This compression reflects maturation of large parent IDIQs and BPAs that anchor the portfolio but generate fewer individual task orders per year. Fifteen awards with completion dates within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $4.6 million and face recompete exposure, a modest absolute figure but concentrated in specific vehicles that will cycle. Service Contract Inventory data captures a partial slice of federal services activity: SCI-reported invoicing totaled $5.4 million in FY2022 across 37.2 FTEs, $6.2 million in FY2023 across 20.9 FTEs, and $5.9 million in FY2024 across 28.0 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts show a median of $133.91/hr, with rates ranging from below-minimum outliers (10th percentile) to $262.85/hr for senior labor (90th percentile). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor performed 100% of reported hours with zero subcontractor engagement.

The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor; the award portfolio contains no sub-awards. Cutting Edge Forestry's posture is to build and deploy its own field crews rather than leverage subcontractors, differentiating it from larger environmental and construction primes that delegate labor-intensive work downstream. The 885-award portfolio is heavily weighted toward single-award and multiple-award IDIQ and BPA vehicles, reflecting the federal government's standardization of land management service procurement through master contract vehicles issued on a region-by-region basis rather than on individual solicitations. Ninety-three percent of recent awards by count fall under total small business or unrestricted (non-set-aside) designations, with no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other small-business socioeconomic set-asides present.

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