Cutting Edge Forestry, Inc.

Cutting Edge Forestry, Inc., doing business as Cutting Edge Forestry Inc., is a small business prime contractor specializing in manual hazardous fuels reduction, forest thinning, pre-commercial thinning, vegetation management, and ecological restoration across western federal lands. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor, self-performing all work with no subcontractor engagement, and competes across both full-and-open and total small business set-aside delivery orders under a portfolio of nine major indefinite delivery vehicles and blanket purchase agreements anchoring task order work through 2032.

Based in Phoenix, Oregon, and registered with SAM.gov since 2004, Cutting Edge Forestry is a for-profit corporate entity classified under primary NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry). The vendor's customer footprint centers on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management. The top five funding agencies by count and value together account for a substantial share of recent work: the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (125 awards, $90.7 million), Rocky Mountain Region (74 awards, $172.3 million), Pacific Southwest Region (78 awards, $122 million), Intermountain Region (69 awards, $8.3 million), and Southwestern Region (44 awards, $69.1 million). However, the Bureau of Land Management National Office dominates by potential value (22 awards, $538.6 million combined), reflecting the master IDIQ vehicles anchoring the vendor's future pipeline. The split between the two ranking schemes—award count favoring Forest Service regions, potential value favoring BLM National Office—reflects BLM's practice of establishing large ceiling-valued parent IDIQs while Forest Service issues more numerous smaller delivery orders against them.

Cutting Edge Forestry holds a portfolio of nine named indefinite delivery vehicles with combined ceiling values exceeding $900 million and ultimate completion dates extending through 2032. Major holdings include a $100 million multiple-award IDIQ with Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) for vegetation treatment services on National Forests and Grasslands (awarded March 15, 2024); a $49.5 million single-award BPA with Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 for National Fuels Reduction across the contiguous United States and Guam (awarded March 29, 2024); a $50 million single-award BPA each with Forest Service Regions 1 (Northern Rockies Stewardship, through October 2032), 4 (Intermountain Stewardship, through October 2032), 6 (Pacific Northwest Stewardship, through October 2032), and 5 (Pacific Southwest Stewardship, through October 2032); a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA with Forest Service Acquisitions (through March 2033); a $50 million single-award BPA with Forest Service Region 3 (Southwest Stewardship, through December 2032); and a $50 million single-award BPA with Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Restoration Project, through July 2032). The vendor also seats on multiple regional multiple-award IDIQs including a $30.4 million total small business set-aside IDIQ for Region 10 Thinning (Alaska Region, through August 2027), a $20 million single-award IDIQ with Region 5 for manual fuels reduction (through July 2027), and a $18.75 million single-award IDIQ with Region 1 for timber stand improvement and hand fuels treatments (through September 2026). Representative task order work includes a $904,986.72 delivery order from Forest Service Region 10 (Alaska Region) for hatchery eagle thinning services on 1,022 acres and establishment of no-thin corridors in Ketchikan, Alaska (awarded August 1, 2026, completion October 31, 2027, total small business set-aside); a $1.79 million delivery order for pre-commercial thinning at Traitors River in Ketchikan (awarded August 7, 2024, total small business set-aside); and a $539,978 delivery order for the Glen Haven 4 tree thinning project in Bellvue, Colorado (awarded June 1, 2023, under Forest Service Region 2 Vegetation Management IDIQ).

Activity has declined year over year—67 awards in 2022 declining to 8 awards through August 2026—with only 15 awards (combined potential value $5.4 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. The stewardship BPAs and regional IDIQs establish a multi-year pipeline through 2032, but the observed decline in new task order volume across 2023–2026 signals either narrower utilization of existing vehicles or reduced government demand. SCI-reportable invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $17.4 million across FY2022–FY2024 (covering 37.2, 20.9, and 28.0 FTEs respectively), with median government-paid hourly rates around $133.91/hr and rates spanning from $0.00/hr (likely survey or administrative entries) through $262.85/hr for senior forestry labor. The vendor self-performs all contracted work; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractor hours share zero percent, reflecting the company's direct-labor delivery model. The vendor's service footprint across SCI captures only a partial view of federal forestry activity—goods, small purchases, and the bulk of the forestry work flow through firm fixed-price delivery orders below or outside the SCI reporting threshold, making the $17.4 million SCI figure substantially smaller than the vendor's actual federal forestry revenue stream.

TREE PLANTING, GOPHER BAITING, THINNING, HERBICIDE SPRAYING, BRUSH CUTTING,FORESTRY SERVICES